EL NINO AND RELATED SUBJECTS


I haven't written anything about hurricanes in a while and this early Sunday Am while noodling around various weather sites came across NOVA Online, the website of the television documentary series dealing with all sorts of science issues.  As an aside years ago when I was running a small company called Simulab, Inc that produced science educational materials, our logo was A Field trip IN THE CLASSROOM, which simulated actual science research with probability devices, dice are probability devices, duplicating nature's ability to produce data.  Students would make a data base and then with a series of pointed questions, educators call this a Socratic Dialog, as Socrates taught not by telling, lecturing, but by asking questions that would lead a students thinking to the desired end.  It's harder than pontificating but I learned early on more effective.  I guess popes can pontificate but I as a common man am not qualified, although if you've gotten this far in this narrative you might be thinking that's just what I'm doing.  Well maybe so.  I'll ask some questions later. Anyway the TV program as an offshoot had a science supply company called NOVA SCIENTIFIC and I was one of the final candidates for Executive Editor.  Alas I did not get the job and subsequently arrived at this point in my life still writing about science related subjects on this site.

If you type in Nova Online on most any search engine you will get a plethora of interesting material but type NOVA Online Tracking El Nino Global Weather Machine to get an interesting article on El Nino and its effect on hurricane production. I found it informative and if you live in a hurricane zone you might as well, maybe even required reading.  Keep learning, keep growing, stay young.

And if so motivated why not look at HURRICANE FINDER a device that tracks the eye of a hurricane without any electronic help and with an extended forecast saves a picture of the storm that diagrams the strength and direction of the wind right at your front door so you can plan ahead.  Self reliance is a good thing, Government can only do so much to protect its citizens and seems preoccupied with other things in recent history. (See the first entry in this series.)