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About the Weather

Posted on January 18, 2021 by Steven Popkes
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  (video of cut trails after the 12/18/2020 snowstorm) I live in New England– Massachusetts, to be precise. We can expect comparatively short summers that usually span from some time in May to some time in September. We’re known for … Continue reading →

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Posted in Culture, Lifestyle, Nature, Worldbuilding, Writing life | Tagged climate, Steven Popkes, weather | 3 Replies

Good Things from 2020

Posted on January 4, 2021 by Steven Popkes
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(Picture from here.) I had a different entry primed for this day but, since it is the first of the year, it seemed to me I’d look at some interesting science that has happened in the last year. I set … Continue reading →

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Posted in Science | Tagged biology, physics, space, Steven Popkes | 1 Reply

Magical Thinking

Posted on December 21, 2020 by Steven Popkes
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  (Picture from here.) As I sit here and write this on 12/14/2020, the last few electors in the electoral college are voting. The last few states are Hawaii, California and Oregon– another 66 electoral votes, officially making Biden president-elect. This is … Continue reading →

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Posted in Adaptation, creativity, Science | Tagged biology, evolution, politics, Steven Popkes | 3 Replies

Doom Fatigue

Posted on December 7, 2020 by Steven Popkes
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  (Picture from here.) I am so tired of being… well, tired. I’m tired of spent hacks trying desperately to hold on to power. Tired of one side being outraged at the other only to find the other side just as outraged. … Continue reading →

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Posted in Science, technology, Uncategorized | Tagged dinosaurs, Mars, Moon, space, Steven Popkes | 5 Replies

A Botched Kiridashi Knife and Other Stories

Posted on November 23, 2020 by Steven Popkes
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I was thinking about many different topics for this blog. Some of them were political. Notably about there not being acceptance of voting reality. Or maybe the about Moderna’s new vaccine– or an even more nano-particle vaccine that does exceedingly … Continue reading →

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Posted in Crafts | Tagged knife, knife making, Steven Popkes | 1 Reply

State of the Farm, 2020: Staples

Posted on November 9, 2020 by Steven Popkes
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(Picture from here.) I was going to write some long eloquent essay on the election but, frankly, it’s too depressing. The only thing I will say is that in 1984, George Orwell postulated a whole English industry and ministry dedicated to … Continue reading →

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Posted in Food and Cooking, gardening, Uncategorized | Tagged crops, Steven Popkes | 6 Replies

Wasting Time on YouTube

Posted on October 26, 2020 by Steven Popkes
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(Picture from here.) Okay. It’s the pandemic. It’s been a godawful long time. I just saw one of my best friends, in person, for the first time in seven months. If you can call it that. We were both masked. We … Continue reading →

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North American Megafauna

Posted on October 12, 2020 by Steven Popkes

(Smilodon image from here.) This is what used to be called Columbus Day. It is now called Indigenous Peoples Day. People came to the “New World” at least 15,000 years ago. There is some evidence that they may have made it … Continue reading →

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State of the Farm, Fall 2020

Posted on September 28, 2020 by Steven Popkes

As far as we are concerned, summer 2020 pretty much sucked. We had a pretty severe drought. That was problem enough in the best of years. It put an enormous stress on our fruit trees as well as on the … Continue reading →

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God’s Country and the making of a knife

Posted on July 1, 2020 by Steven Popkes

First, an announcement. On July 7, 2020, my novel God’s Country will be released. You’ll find it right here on Book View Café as well as Amazon and Barnes & Noble. If you have ever asked the question what does sex, prostitution, crooked cops, … Continue reading →

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