Chen and the Diplomatic Gobbledygook

The Chen saga is par for the course when your bark is worse than your bite.

Sixth Sense

Going beyond anecdotes it is a relatively simply exercise to pre-position A/V devices in select zoo environments and acquire data for a scatter plot (resident decibels vs tremor magnitude). Many, many years ago when there were residents at the Kolkata zoo even a 3.X aftershock would be preceded by a cacophony.

Red, White and Blue! 

It did not freeze! 

Wave Propagation Modeling

As we strive to assist the dispossessed in the years to come, the calamitous event over the weekend behooves us to understand how we are inextricably linked together.

A plucky administrator recalling his middle school geography lessons was able to move his family to safety seconds before his neighbors were wiped out. With modern telemetry at its disposal a regional air force base could not anticipate the fury even from an elevated station.

And then the small footnote: how did Diego Garcia fare?

Y'all come back now! 

The Geminid Show

Living in city has its share of major disadvantages. Can't step outside for a celestial pyrotechnic feast even with a clear sky. Will try again tomorrow.