When Joan Baez recorded that song, the fear was that the testing of nuclear weapons was releasing so much radioactivity into the atmosphere that living things (including humans) would be adversely affected. We don’t yet know, of course, the degree to which living things might have been (or are being) influenced by the radioactivity, but—so far, at least—we haven’t had any major biological disasters (that we know of). The current fears about the climate are based primarily on what has been global climate change” or Global Warming And it certainly seems as though our climate has been . . . → Read More: What Have We Done to the Rain?
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 Comments are closed  Blog  atmosphere, California, centuries, climate change, climatologists, cold weather, College of Wooster, dinosaurs, Florida, furnace, global mean temperature, global systems, grandchildren, Ice Age, Joan Baez, large systems, life on earth, living things, Michigan, Midwest, nuclear weapons, October, Ohio, planet Earth, radioactivity, summer, summers, temperatures, the University of Redlands, University of Florida, University of Illinois, Western Michigan University, What Have They Done to the Rain, window fan, windows, winter As I am starting to write this electronic blog, one of the headlines for the day is that one of the principal bookstores in the U.S., Borders, is filing for bankruptcy. Electronic readers—e-readers—are gaining market share. In related stories, Amazon recently announced that Kindle e-book sales have surpassed sales of both hardcover and paperback books. For those of us who have spent a lifetime reading books, the move to “electronic literature” is a bit unsettling. I still have books on my shelves that I read as a college undergraduate. They have moved with me at least eight times and kept . . . → Read More: “What’s a Book, Daddy?” Comments are closed Blog Amazon, amplifiers, Boarders, books, bookstores, CDs, change, children, City Lights, computer-based, distance learning, e-readers, Egypt, grandchildren, illuminated manuscripts, Internet, iTunes, Kindle, learning curve, Middle East, Milton, monks, Nook, Paradise Lost, pioneers, records, San Francisco, Satan, smart phone, technology, tubes, turntable |
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