Alien life found…in California.

Apparently there’s more than one way to build a DNA molecule. And here I shout, “I knew it!” and smile broadly. Arsenic, would you believe? It’s from Mono Lake. One of my unguessable career bits was on the RNA thing—nothing too elevated;...

Relieved to report a second day of melt. This takes weight

…off our roofs. I figure the church over there will go first, that and the flat roofed sections of the house across the street. But that snow was incredibly heavy and wet: a shovelful was a strain to lift, and I’m in pretty good shape. Last Snowpocalypse,...