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From Boing Boing Hey. That's no good. I guess nothing should surprise me after finding out that there are bull sharks in creeks in Mi...

Done at Johns Hopkins. They should've adjusted the list by per capita consumption, although I bet it still wouldn't change much.

That would be a big "no", because we I don't think anyone wants our traffic more screwed up than it already is and parking dow...

A good article with lots of photos at the OB Rag . In terms of forest damage, fortunately, not that bad. Thanks to Frank Gormlie for going...

No I didn't run it. I thought about going up to pace but ended up not being able to leave San Diego that day due to other commitments...

San Diego cyclists are being targeted by jerks with a pellet gun. (From bikesd.org .) People have been shot at with pellets - the kind tha...

Ceterum censeo ...okay so maybe I'm not the great Roman senator and orator Cato (I have an extra N in my name) but you get the idea. Th...

Article from Sports Illustrated here . It's very strange that colleges are whining that Grand Canyon U. is doing this to make money. I...

February 2013. I was there in regular running gear (shorts and running shoes and T-shirt). Very pretty and the cold was okay, in fact grea...

(Cross posted to my blog the Lucky Atheist .) I'd been meaning to post the pictures from the Canyon Cleanup back in April. A few of us...

These canyons are: a. the most beautiful springtime place I've ever seen in San Diego (pictures taken in March and April) and b. of ques...

To see how fast SoCal's forests are burning away, scroll down. Finally got up to the high peaks in the Angeles (besides Baldy). NICE....

Jack Elliott has a great piece up about how marijuana cultivation - that is, marijuana prohibition - is causing damage to national forests,...

There are croton shrubs in various places but there is one in southeast Asia that produces an oil which causes a rash similar to poison ivy ...

Just wanted to link to Gary Valle's information on the Mountain Fire , from 2:54 PM local time Thursday 18 July. You might say "it...

This is cross-posted to Cognition and Evolution . Paleo dieters avoid post-agricultural foods. The argument is that agriculture is a prod...

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Article here . Akin to having a Phylum Feast on Darwin day, eat local by taking critters that shouldn't be around! My favorite new org...

The area south of Scripps Ranch and north of Santee has some awesome valleys and trails, as I am about to post. The area is of questionable...

As of this writing (18:23 10 July 2013) there is no active fire anymore, just a lot of smouldering. The cooler overcast weather today helpe...

The Natural Resources Defense Council posted their report for 2012 water quality data . They said that Delaware had the best beaches and Av...

Yesterday morning I was fortunate enough to get out in Marian Bear and Rose Canyon and walk the trails with veteran volunteer John, who'...

Look familiar? Foxtails are the bane of many a trail runner, and they're an even bigger hazard for dogs. The topic came up because wh...

The existence of black (melanistic) has been a controversial topic for decades. They have never been documented; it's a misconception t...

Today I had the privilege of volunteering for the morning to patrol the Tri-Canyon parks with Ranger Andrew Quinn of San Diego Parks and Rec...

A Danish study just published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine investigated the received wisdom that under- or over-pronating runne...

Well I have a new favorite summit in Angeles National Forest, namely Baden-Powell. It's in that cluster of a few summits north and east...

So I made the drive up the Palomar Divide Truck Trail a few days ago from Warner Springs, and ran down Barker Valley Spur. A nice trail, wh...

This was at 52 and Santo Road in Tierra Santa . Thanks to the professionals of the SDPD for knocking this one down. There was just one two...

If you get a kick out of these little trip reports, here's one from the San Juans in Colorado, August 2012 . From time to time, I get ...