CNN reported icebergs that broke off Antarctic ice shelves are heading for New Zealand. One measuring 30 feet high is now 160 miles southeast of New Zealand's Stewart Island. Satellite photos indicate they're hundreds of icebergs roaming throughout the Pacific. Unlike tornadoes, hurricanes, earth quakes, tsunamis, oil slicks and human junk floating in the oceans, icebergs are rather benign objects unless a ship happens to ram into one. But if air traffic controllers can keep jets from … [Read more...]
Great White Sharks Return to Golden Gate Bridge
Great White Sharks Return to Bay Area Californian's are a strange lot, no doubt, but neither earthquakes nor floods nor swine flu nor collapsing bridges bring us to our knees. And that goes for sharks too. We're a hardy bunch here in the Bay Area and we treat recent reports of great whites poking around the Golden Gate Bridge like water off a duck's (shark's?) back. Stanford University Tags Great White Sharks Around ten years ago, researchers at Stanford University and UC Davis started … [Read more...]
Bridges Connect People in the Bay Area? Drain the Bay
Residents in the San Francisco Bay Area awoke again today not knowing how to quickly commutel from one side of the Bay to the other. The Bay Bridge, connecting Oakland/East Bay with San Francisco, was shut down again due to safety issues. (On Labor Day, the bridge was also closed to fix a dangerous section of the span.) The Bay Bridge is becoming a thorn in the sides of Bay Area residents--too old, not hip. Living in the San Francisco Bay Area is like living on multiple islands. Tthe Pacific … [Read more...]