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If you live in UTC, in 24 hours you won't need this reminder, but the Miramar Air Show starts tomorrow, and goes until Sunday. They...

In Queensland (where else). For tigers those are some bigguns.

Inspired by Patrick Makau Musyoki's new marathon record in Berlin yesterday, I looked for trends in the marathon world records for eac...

[Note: On Facebook? Look for " Move the san Diego Air Show Way Inland ".] Miramar Air Show is next month. There's no prob...

Support micro-brewers in the brand-new country of South Sudan ! How we get their beer I don't know, but I bet here in San Diego a) l...

I just read Encounters with an Angry God , by Carobeth Laird. It details her time with John Harrington, an interesting character who did a ...

Not confirmed, but be careful out there! Here's the story . Below is a video from The Running Fat Guy so you know what a rattler soun...

FOX has canceled a show that "mocks" USC students who didn't know anything about football. A clip from it is below. But I...

Yikes! In Rawah Wilderness in northern Colorado, courtesy Jeff (who was there with his son): He told me he actually saw them and they...

Monday it rained in Southern California, which some of us actually like. There was even a little thunder. The air smelled great and the su...

From an article in Wilderness and Environmental Medicine (Caldicott DG, Croser D, Manolis C, Webb G, Britton A., " Crocodile attack in ...

Great whites eat seals. That's why it's not good to swim where the seals are. So it's surprising that it's taken this long...

A group of citizens is forming to preserve Palomar Mountain State Park in the face of its imminent closure. Join and become part of the sol...

I have a neat story about Tomales Bay S.P. (most people who've been there do). It's right next to Inverness and Point Reyes Nationa...

One was hit and killed by a car last month. Interesting summary of DNA detective work here , showing how this animal is related to others i...

Seeing it this way drives it home: View State Park Closures in a larger map

Last weekend I found myself at the OB Fair and met some very nice young ladies from the San Diego River Foundation. They gave me a cool map...

Excellent! Visit them here . Maybe they'll start complaining about Art Devany in my stead.

Read her blog here and subscribe. Castle Crags , one of the ones on the list.

What a great article this is . The Lebron James story has really provided a great window into the psychology of professional sports fans. ...

Two going the right direction: - Seal disturbance ticket thrown out - The seal rope at the beach is being kept down

Yesterday I drove all the way up to Angeles National Forest from San Diego to start a hike from Chantry Flats, my new favorite spot in the w...

In Petaluma, a group met next to Annadel State Park (one of the parks on the chopping block) and floated the option of a partnership between...

Want to help save the rainforest AND educate kids? The Peten is the northeastern part of Guatemala, a mostly-flat rainforest that contains ...

I finally saw one of these critters and yes, I'm very excited about it. I actually keep a list of varmints I haven't yet seen in th...

"No no, let's move him this way. I've been neglecting my delts this week." Move Naturally (MovNat) seems to be kind o...

No matter how much people named Garron pressure you, do not ever put these in your mouth . They are bad. For your family, be stronger than...

Previously I had dismissed the existence of the "snake path" at Geisel Library on the UCSD campus, despite the insistence of other...

[Update: he did the half and no one saw anything but his back . 1h2m40s, ahead right from the gun. Congratulations Meb.] Hometown boy K...

In November of last year I passed along an an appeal from the Save the Redwoods League to help protect the Noyo redwoods. It was marked ...

From XKCD : Seriously. Go read the game summaries on ESPN after a baseball series or especially after March Madness games. Somehow the ...

Just want to give a shout out to Frank at CA-hiking.com for his quick resonse to my question about a previous hike in the Trabuco Unit of C...

Tried San Jacinto yesterday. Too snowy! It just wasn't fun so I turned around just before Little Round Valley. Someone I know went up...

1) Friend Anup sends me an article from Surfer Magazine about some total nutbar in Northern Territory, Australia who rides great white shark...

Gone. Gone. Gone. Gone. If melodrama is ever appropriate, it's appropriate now. Jerry Brown has proposed a list of state pa...

If you noticed the beaches and canyons and creeks look pretty good today, there's a reason: today was the creek-to-bay cleanup , and an...

If you're on Twitter (and why the heck wouldn't you be, you throwback reactionary Luddite counterrevolutionary)* then you should fol...

[Added later. Says Dan Simpson from Dan's Hiking pages : "A single species of poison oak ( Toxicodendron diversilobum ) can take...

At Boing Boing I ran across this awesome gadget. Hate leaving your key in a magnet under your car body where thieves know everyone leaves t...

If you're visiting from BoonDOCS Medicine, welcome! I'm grateful to Dr. K. for selecting me to contribute to the site and show and ...

Dearest readers, I must again sign-off, this time until late June, so I can focus on more pressing issues. Until then: stay safe, enjoy th...

Note: similar effect has been found in basketball, with refs showing various biases including toward the home team and the losing team, bot...

I got mine over New Years up in Tha Bay. If you didn't get yours, here it is: Note: all those redwood cones that I planted don...

I was down by the beach in La Jolla a couple weekends ago and signed up for their mailing list, partly because I believe in what they're...

They're purty, but they can't rattle to tell you they're there. This is a post for the PA folks, since we don't have them i...

Notable events and destinations in order: - I didn't stop in California or Arizona except for gas. If I have an excuse one day I'...