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diary - December 2006

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Blowing down from the Northwest through the Rocky Mountains, it slammed into the Midwest from Michigan all the way down to Texas, where some roads were covered with ice and up to 7 inches of snow. More than 400 hundred flights were canceled at Chicago's O'Hare Airport, and 200 at Dallas-Forth Worth. Further north, some areas are getting 2 inches of snow per hour! Tonight fierce winds will hit New England. Meanwhile it's chilly down here - chilly for Southern California, anyway. Not really cold at all. But last night, I curled up in bed and read about the end of the last Ice Age. I find this tremendously romantic, because it paints a portrait of a land recognizably like our own, but strangely different: Written by one of the founders of mathematical ecology, it reads like a novel, with nary an equation. Let me set the stage with some dates. The last Ice Age - the Wisconsin glaciation, began in about 70,000 BC. The oldest known cave paintings date back to 32,000 BC. The glaciers reached

diary - December 2006 For my November 2006 diary, go here. Diary - December 2006 John Baez December 1, 2006 Big snow storm in the American Midwest! Blowing down from the Northwest through the Rocky Mountains, it slammed into the Midwest from Michigan all the way down to Texas, where some roads were covered with ice and up to 7 inches of snow. More than 400 hundred flights were canceled at Chicago's O'Hare Airport, and 200 at Dallas-Forth Worth. Further north, some areas are getting 2 inches of snow per hour! Tonight fierce winds will hit New England. Meanwhile it's chilly down here - chilly fo

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