Category Archives: Current Events

Links for 2007-11-27

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Moderate Earthquake

We had an earthquake with a magnitude of 5.6 at 8:04 p.m. this evening. Here’s the quake’s seismological data from the U.S. Geological Survey website, where one can track quakes in real-time (well, almost) in the Bay…  Read more

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Unfortunate Newspaper Layout

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The San Jose Mercury News reported yesterday that a local man died after falling into a vat of acid. But why, oh why, did the Mercury News staff choose to place a photo from the Body Worlds…  Read more

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Madeleine L’Engle, 1918-2007

Writer Madeleine L’Engle is dead at 88. She wrote children’s books but she also often wrote about her Christian faith. According to this article, the price of her writing candidly as a Christian “has been steep. She…  Read more

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Links for 2007-09-05

  • Alfred H. Peet, 1920-2007 Peet’s Coffee & Tea founder passed away August 29, 2007
  • An Inconvenient Fact Co-founder of Greenpeace takes issue with the scare tactics in Leo Dicaprio’s anti-forestry movie “11th Hour.” He says that “trees are the

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