thanks to close ties to the fossil fuel industry and new technological breakthroughs, U.S. geothermal power may survive the GOP assaults on support for renewables and even thrive. U.S. Geothermal
Month: August 2025
Grouse Mural
Revisiting an old friend. When you spend so many hours on a painting, you start considering it as a living thing, evolving, developing, growing as any soul on this planet would. This is a mural I painted in 2016, for a good client and friend at his house. Murals are slightly different than …
Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940.
A homesteader and his family in their cardboard house in Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940. His children are wearing flour sack dresses. Historical Photos YT Tough times. Steve may have been there. Pie Town and its people were photographed in 1940 by Russell Lee, a photographer for the Farm Security Administration of the U.S. government. Pie Town, Lee’s photos, …
Straight out of Dune
The greatest lunge I ever filmed! A facebook one by the same guy.
Badger Spa
Polly, our North American Badger, is all sugar and sass. She despises nail trims and makes her feelings very clear with dramatic huffs, hisses, and growls. But don’t be fooled—she’s all attitude and no bite. She’s never actually chomped down on Stephanie (even though we’re pretty sure she thinks about it every single time). Huge …
Ice Fishing
I was what? It might work in anoxic mashes but it may also be bogus web stuff.
Bambi The Reckoning
More, if you want it. I don’t. A classic? FB trailer.
AI vs Scalzi
John Scalzi is a voluble man. He is the author of several New York Times best sellers and has been nominated for nearly every major award that the science-fiction industry has to offer—some of which he’s won multiple times. Over the course of his career, he has written millions of words, filling dozens of books …
Spring landscape with rain showers. South Zealand, 1879
Spring landscape with rain showers. South Zealand, 1879Hans Friis (Danish, 1839 – 1892)oil on canvas, 112.5cm (h) x 183cm (w)SMK – National Gallery of Denmark Something about this painting gets me. The tranquility? Half forgotten memories? Whatever it is, I like it a lot.
Parkinson’s disease and kidneys
Parkinson’s disease is traditionally associated with neurological damage in the brain, brought on by a drastic drop in dopamine production, but a new study suggests it could get started in an unexpected part of the body: the kidneys. Led by a team from Wuhan University in China, the study is primarily concerned with the alpha-synuclein (α-Syn) protein, which …