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Just wanted to pass on this great article on the (junk) food industry : Discover what consumers want to buy and give it to them with both b...

This is mostly an outdoors blog but it's driven largely by my love affair with California, so I thought this cross-post from my science ...

This morning I got out for a run to Del Mar Mesa Preserve. I'd been through there a few times before after noticing a blank spot on the...

From Solana Beach, through Crest Canyon, and then that disconnected piece of Torrey Pines, to regular Torrey Pines and up the trail, then...

A New Republic piece about how statistics isn't just for baseball anymore .  One statement that I did find interesting:  “'Most of t...

This looks like an awesome place for trailrunning, as well as to be the origin of a language family.  The Altaic language family must...

From the Kids in the Hall TV show of the 90s:

Done. Didn't start in time for the side trip to Modjeska. The saddle of Saddleback doesn't look as pretty from the top as the pre-...

I finally got to Hollenbeck Canyon . It was a rainy and misty yesterday but that was actually quite cool. I shouldn't be surprised at...

I'm a very bad person for laughing so hard at this.

Now that college football is over, it's time to talk about college football.  Naw, but I just thought this was an interesting observatio...

This piece starts out with a brief mention of the cosmic microwave background from the Big Bang, so you know it'll be good.  (Cause that...

David Allen is the Getting Things Done guy, so it was with surprise that in an interview with him I ran across this gem about how we filter,...

For my PA readers: it's already bad enough that your alcohol is controlled by a North Korean-like state apparatus. (True story: when ...

Despite a current injury, I relied on my low levels of common sense and did an awesome 15 miler (this trail with side spurs) in the I-can...

Previously I attempted to turn San Diego into the Bay Area by planting redwood trees around my house and in a nearby canyon.  This has not ...

(As always, advice welcome.)  I've re-injured my left lats, most likely from bicep curls.  Last time I did this was 12 years ago and I c...

Went up to Angeles NF yesterday to play in the snow.  At the Baldy trailhead, the trail up to the cabin was (and thence to the summit) was p...

If you missed the Craft Beer Debate in September - about whether taxpayer money should be used for new stadiums (hint: it shouldn't be...

"Hometown" as in Reading, Pennsylvania that is (the first third or so of my life). Kudos to Samantha Dalton for doing it. And k...

Here's an article about how increasingly large beverage conglomerates are increasingly pressuring microbreweries . Though serious beer ...

If you do not like serious fitness-health geekiness, then won't you please look away now, madame or sir. Humans make Vitamin D in our...

Went up from Trabuco Canyon via Holy Jim trail .  I should qualify that and say I stopped a mile or so short of the summit since it was gett...

That seems to be the conclusion of a study to be published in the British journal Heart next month. The press release published by the WSJ...

From the "ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!" department, a team that can't possibly go to a bowl because of sanctions ends up outran...

Some goober has created a website for a marathon which is admitted on its face to be fake ; maybe s/he is hoping a real event will grow out ...

Why do humans have brains so much bigger than our bodies, relative to other animals?  As it turns out, maybe not so we can be so smart.  Mos...

Last October volunteers planted coast live oaks in the drainage of a canyon in the BLM's Sycamore Canyon area, off Highway 94.  This are...

I know you're not already getting enough politics so here's the article . What's really interesting is that polls move in conce...

At Point Reyes: Amazing one from earlier this year in Yosemite: But sometimes they're just damn cute:

Saturday I ran up to the top of San Miguel Mountain from Rolling Hills Estates on the south side. Imagine something halfway between Bla...

Part of my bucket list is seeing certain critters in the wild. I have yet to see a manta ray, great white shark, gila monster, or wolf runn...

$651,000 to a number of organizations to assemble protected areas. Trails and preserves! Great job, thanks guys!

Marines in a triathon carrying a kid whose prosthetic legs failed during the race:

No to the Quail Brush project.  Story here .

Shouldn't be surprising after this hot summer, but I saw another one, this one up in Carlsbad. I've been seeing them all around 630...

Went up to run Noble Canyon yesterday in preparation for doing a litte group hike there the Friday after Thanksgiving.  Nice run with some a...

Pundit Tracker keeps those talking heads on TV honest by actually looking at the results of their predictions - and here they are for baseba...

Mark Tanaka helpfully posts a link to a review paper , with evidence classifiers. (If lightning hits you, it's doubtful you'll end ...

Saw one during my study break (ie nightly 7-miler) on the trail in Marian Bear Canyon, between Genesee and Regents, about 715pm.  Not surpri...

I was thrilled to be present at the inaugural official Craft Beer Debate . Thanks to Omar Passons for conceiving and organizing! To be cle...

The Inaugural Craft Beer Debate about a new Chargers stadium is this Wednesday 12 September, at 6:15pm at Slater's 50/50 . Thanks to ...

Most of us who spend time on trails around here have seen a rattler or three. I just saw one tonight, a cute lil baby one on the side of th...

By Pat's Backcountry Beverages in Alaska . America is great.

Craft Beer Debates is a great idea - providing a venue for people to discuss important questions in a passionate but friendly way. Importa...

Amazing article , highly recommended.

If you're bored of normal tourist destinations, check out Atlas Obscura . They end up being mostly outdoors and natural things. Nature...

I thought it would be fun to head up to Carlsbad for some wine-tasting today and since I've lived here 3 years and never used the Coaste...

An important question, relating to a (suddenly much more) public figure .

[Added later: turns out caloric restriction doesn't extend life either, at least in primates ; it's just unpleasant. And if you...

I saw a flock of 10 in Hillcrest this afternoon. I thought I'd heard them before in Balboa Park but now that I've seen them it'...

While I was driving through the amazingly empty southern Colorado/northern New Mexico area on my awesome trip a few weeks ago , I got curiou...

After a scouting trip to the desert, I decided to take a pass on my brilliant idea of running the Algodones Dunes from I-8 to 78. Runn...

So I survived the three months of my surgery rotation only by imagining the promise of the San Juan Mountains in my future, and what a promi...