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Mark Boxell
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Historian. Writing a book on oil and Indian Territory and the world the two have made. Every plot of land has a history.
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Every Time I Die - "White Void" (Full Album Stream)
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January 17, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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If It Makes You Happy
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December 30, 2024 at 5:23 AM
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When I've seen historians discuss Carter's energy policies it's usually framed as ironic that he promoted renewables while laying the groundwork for a huge coal boom. A more interesting framing would be to interpret the two as mutually constructive of each other.
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RIP Jimmy Carter? How to remember him? Thread
- nuclear engineer, who did Solar & Western coal boom
-Deregulator & neoliberal turn in US
-Carter doctrine that began the bloodbath in Middle East post Iranian revolution?
- Rapprochement with communist China
- Humane anti imperialist ex-President
December 30, 2024 at 3:51 AM
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One of the seemingly little things about living in the present moment that I find deeply depressing is that, every day, someone is actively trying to scam you via text message. Every day you have to be reminded of humanity's worse capacities in a very direct and personal way.
December 30, 2024 at 3:48 AM
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This guy rules www.youtube.com/watch?v=dikO...
Why do debris flow landslides move like rivers of rock and mud?
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December 18, 2024 at 2:36 AM
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Great stuff here www.youtube.com/watch?v=q46g...
Great Grandpa - Dark Green Water (Live on KEXP)
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December 6, 2024 at 6:02 AM
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This is incredible football
December 6, 2024 at 4:04 AM
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Willem Dafoe speaking truth in this interview with @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social www.vulture.com/article/will...
question: I feel like the relationship of the audience to movies has changed in the past ten or 15 years. They expect the movie to come to them. answer: Absolutely. They’d rather go home and turn on their TV and see a film that way. And let’s face it, a certain kind of corruption comes in because people go home and they shop around on these streaming platforms. There’s some good things about the platforms. They create a lot of movies. They create a lot of jobs. But there’s so many distractions that you can’t enter the stuff. People watch five minutes of something and they say, “I’m not really into it” and they go to another thing. “I’m not really into it.” Then another thing. “I’m not really into it.” Then they go to bed. If you don’t put in the effort, you’re not going to receive much. And the discourse gets lowered, and everything gets a little more dumbed down and then that’s when the ruffians come in, and they’re the ones with energy and stupidity and then they can crush all the thoughtful people. That’s not good for culture, and that’s not good for humanity. We see the results of that all the time.
December 5, 2024 at 4:02 PM
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#Sunday #News 1936 Where angry waters roll.
"how nature set the stage for the disastrous #floods which recently swept whole sections of the county and what Uncle Sam is doing about it". Had not see a #reforestation #belt before. Map by Edwin L. Sundberg www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet...
Map from "Sunday News" published in 1936 Title: Where angry waters roll. Full color flood map of the United States, centerfold from issue of Sunday News, pages 6-7. Date estimated. Shows state boundaries, rivers, direction of flow of rivers, reservoirs, irrigation, etc. Includes compass rose and text: "How nature set the stage for the disastrous floods which recently swept whole sections of the county and what Uncle Sam is doing about it, are illustrated on this map" Relief shown by gradient tints. Section of a "Sunday News" map published in 1936 Title: Where angry waters roll. Showing the re-forestation belt running north-south From Oklahoma to North Dakota. Legend and explanatory text that reads: How nature set the stage for the disastrous floods which recently swept whole sections of the country, and what Uncle Sam is doing about it, are illustrated on this map. It shows the principal land elevations and the great river systems and their tributaries. The arrows indicate the direction of flow of the rivers. It was the swollen waters of the rivers in the East, racing both easterly and westerly from the heights of the Appalachian range, which wrought such widespread destruction, following the combination of heavy Spring rains after a Winter of abnormal snowfall. Due to its lower elevation, the Mississippi and its tributaries spread over a flood plain of 50,000 square miles. The navigable rivers are heavily outlined. The flood control program under the supervision of the Army Engineering Corps includes construction or reinforcement of levees, principally along the Mississippi, building of reservoirs to hold the excess water which is later released gradually, and reforestation. Its estimated cost would be $8,000,000,000. The levees along the Mississippi as far north as the Ohio are virtually completed. Most of the others, except those along the Rio Grande and bordering Lake Okeechobee in Florida, are still in the blue print stage.
December 1, 2024 at 10:30 PM
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Purdue football
November 23, 2024 at 2:27 AM
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Mt Frazier 2, Ventura County, CA
🗺34.7747, -118.9689 🧭55° ⛰7989 ft
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November 21, 2024 at 5:46 AM
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Teaching 1960s-1970s environmentalism right now. What stands out to me more and more is how many years have now passed since that larger historical moment and how many people have lived their whole lives without experiencing the (relative) successes of grassroots political action.
November 19, 2024 at 6:59 PM
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Silver Peak 1, Inyo County, CA
🗺37.4121, -118.1887 🧭227° ⛰10686 ft
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November 18, 2024 at 5:46 AM
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This video is incredible. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBuJ...
Investigating a Helene debris flow landslide with geologist Philip Prince
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November 14, 2024 at 7:00 PM
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Looking through old pics on my phone and I'm struck by this map found in a small county museum in Nebraska. It was likely commissioned for a few dozen dollars and yet does a better job of conveying mobility and overlapping nationhood along Plains watersheds than probs anything you'll find elsewhere.
November 14, 2024 at 3:27 AM
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The first minute of the 80s PBS documentary about Huey Long is pretty flawless.
November 9, 2024 at 6:26 AM
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Oh man did I miss these.
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Healdsburg 1, Sonoma County, CA
🗺38.6308, -122.8597 🧭53° ⛰400 ft
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November 9, 2024 at 6:50 PM