This was in 1996 in Green Ranch, Texas, at the Monterey Well #1. “A river of oil is seen running from this well. The oil is spewing out despite the ‘blowout preventers’ being closed. One location over a new well is to be drilled today, in today’s new world of high oil prices. http://www.EnergyInvestmentGroup.com is … More Music Video: Texas Oil Well Blowout
I’ve been looking at some of the driller bulletin boards and blogs, written by engineers and physicists, people who really know how to drill and do it often. They are much more worried about the Macondo disaster than the regular news is. Then there’s this post on “the mother of all gushers.” The relief wells … More Academic Mondays: Macondo Science
This is how the oil looks, tumbling out of its undersea source. Notice how quickly it moves. There is apparently a lot of natural gas being released as well. Video reposted from Agent Smith. Axé.
“Unfortunately, most instructors aren’t as much fun as you.” I am fun! Axé.
Por: María Dolores París Pombo (El Colegio de la Frontera Norte) El día 27 de abril, una caravana humanitaria de periodistas, activistas sociales y observadores internacionales, que se dirigía al Municipio Autónomo de San Juan Copala, Oaxaca, fue agredida con armas de alto poder por integrantes de la organización priista Unidad de Bienestar Social de … More “San Juan Copala: raíces de la violencia”
Each day is so unique and so unrepeatable, and I would so like each day and night to last and last. Every scene so much like itself. The vegetables from the organic garden are not at all like those from the stores, and do not even resemble the ones from the farmers’ market very closely. … More Olodumare
Today a major oil slick from the Macondo Prospect will probably make landfall below New Orleans. You do not know it, but I am not really a professor — I am a landman from Pointe Coupée. I have worked in various branches of the oil and gas industry and my clients have included Halliburton, Enron, … More Vendredi Noir
1 A friend says her problem is not only the lack of resources, conditions, and funding for research, it is the lack of a research culture. She says she needs a research culture, and she clearly does not consider this need to be a personal failing. She believes it is normal. As we know, I … More Academic Mondays: Research Culture II
I spent $111 on eye treatment after having an allergic reaction to paint and sealant. It worked and I felt better and better, and even dreamed. And it is the weekend, so we should be at a fish restaurant in Lima listening to live criollo music, because that is what one does on weekends. Axé.
Here is the traditional commercial neighborhood of La Victoria in Lima, Peru, as it is today. This video is actually rather flattering and it is fun because of the soundtrack — this is how people really talk. Here is the same district as it was between 1908 and 1945, with a scratchy soundtrack by the … More La Victoria
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