Katla twitches

While the earthquakes in the region around Myrdalsjokull have remained concentrated in and around the Katla caldera for some time, they have...

The Family DNA - the female side, part 1

When I began writing about the use of DNA in confirming some of the stories of history, and challenging others, I was really still only awar...

OGPSS - Considerations of Chinese demand growth

Three years ago I took my third trip to China , flying this time to Qinghai Province and then taking the train back down from Xining City t...

The family DNA - Y-chromosome initial results

Back in June I began what I expected to be a very short series of posts on archeological and biological reasons for deciding when Europeans...

Temperature drop with elevation

This morning I visited Watts Up with That and read a post on the accuracy of the new set of temperature stations around the country. It po...

OGPSS - Tensions over oil in the South China Sea

In the introductory remarks to these posts on Chinese energy supplies and usage, I mentioned that one of the concerns beginning to be evide...

OGPSS - introduction to China

When I first began this review of future production from the different oil producing countries about fifteen months ago , I produced this li...