My Interests

My Interests/Hobbies/Passions

Dave (my hiking buddy) on the Cedar Lakes trail, Cabinet Mountains Wilderness Area, Montana

My writings

My favorite recipes

Some of my favorite music, etc.

My hiking buddy Dave on the Cedar Lakes trail, Cabinet Mountains Wilderness Area, Montana

MISCELLANY
A Cenozoic Time Scale.

Old (but still good) computer programs for science, written in the BASIC computer language

Are you curious if that strange rock you found really is a meteorite? I put together a web page that should help you find an answer. Did you find a meteorite?

I also dabble in astrophotography.

How to accurately measure the area of an irregularly-shaped 2-dimensional form (without using a computer).

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How to make Molar and Normal chemical solutions.

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How to stain a petrographic thin section.

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How to find the center of mass of flat irregularly-shaped objects

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Occurrence of a squaloid shark (Chondrichthyes: Squaliformes) with the pinniped Allodesmus from the upper Miocene of Washington: Journal of Paleontology, v. 68, no. 3, pp. 680-684.

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One-time pad encryption

PALEO-LINKS

Palaeontologia Electronica is the very first peer-reviewed professional paleontology journal published only on the Internet.

Society of Vertebrate Paleontology publishes the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. Information on joining/subscribing.

SCIENCE NEWS SOURCES ON THE WEB
CNN-Science/Technology News has the latest science news on the web.

Los Angeles Times Science News

BBC Science News

ScienceDaily is another good on-line source for science news

Nature Science Update webpage

The weekly science digest Science News

ENVIRONMENTAL LINKS

Montana Conservation Voters "..... activating voters to make a difference in the ballot box for Montana's clean air and water, wildlife, forests and open spaces...."

A listing of some of the newest environmental crises affecting the earth's forested areas. Stop by to see if forests where you live are being logged in a way that respects the environment.

The Sierra Club. Become a member and help them out.

League of Conservation Voters

Montana Environmental Information Center

How do your Congressmen vote on environmental issues? Find out by checking their Environmental Scorecard

ProPublica

Offer your support in favor of creating a new federal wilderness area in northwest Montana - - the proposed Scotchman Peaks Wilderness.

Asbestos contamination in Libby, Montana - a health crisis

MONTANA'S NATIVE PEOPLES

Piegan (Blackfeet) bison-hunting point. From my limited knowledge of Northern Great Plains point types, I estimate that this style is closest in morphology to Strong's (1935:, Fig. 7) SCa2 chipped point classification. The composition of the point is gray chalcedony with white mottling. Tip broken. Preserved length = 34 mm. © 1997-2010 Phillip Bigelow

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temperatures

HELPING OUR FELLOW MAN
Feeding America

Plumpy Nut

Earth Ship. Eco-friendly housing construction

Help protect citizens around the world who are imprisoned and tortured because they have dared to raise their fist against their government. Join Amnesty International.

Montana Human Rights Network

HELPING OUR FELLOW CREATURES

Camp Border Collie

Other Stuff

The Amazing Randi

The Urban Legends Reference Pages web site. (Just because it was found on the Internet doesn't mean it's true!)

"Reality has a well-known Liberal bias" - Steven Colbert

"We recognize, however dimly, that greater efficiency, ease, and security may come at a substantial price in freedom, that law and order can be a doublethink version of oppression, that individual liberties surrendered, for whatever good reason, are freedoms lost."- - Walter Cronkite, preface to the 1984 edition of George Orwell's 1984.