By Jeffrey the Barak. (c) Google Earth, our route Part one took us from Torrance to Manhattan Beach on the L.A. Beach Bike Path. This article is part two so if you are starting here, you may want to navigate to part one first. Google ... Read More

By Jeffrey the Barak. (c) Google Earth, our route You have seen it on TV and in countless movies. The twenty-six mile bike path along the coast in Santa Monica Bay is a place that many a scooter rider is longing to try out. The ... Read More

By Jeffrey the Barak China calls them Diaoyutai, Japan calls them Senkaku Retto and Taiwan calls them Tiaoyutai. These remote, barren, featureless and small islands are the rocks that everyone suddenly wants. Each country has their reasons for believing they should hoist flag on these ... Read More

(c) KITV.com By Jeffrey the Barak. The State of Hawai’i is the only place in the United States in which you can lose your shadow, outside, in the middle of the day. when there are no clouds. In Hawai’i this is known as Lahaina Noon ... Read More

By Jeffrey the Barak. Have you ever seen a time zone map? Its a rectangular projection of our globe, like most maps, where small distances at the poles are stretched for thousands of miles and large distances at the equator look tiny by comparison. But ... Read More

Mauna Kea in Hawaii – Driving to the Summit of this Grand Volcano By Steven Anderson The summit of Mauna Kea is called Puu Wekiu and it is at an elevation of 13,796 feet. This is the highest point of land in the Pacific Basin. ... Read More

No one knows how to stop it By Jeffrey the Barak Photo credit: NASA Anyone who lives in Valdez knows what is still under every rock on the beach. As of now, Louisiana will be the same. And no-one is able to prevent it. The ... Read More

When an event and a moment collide. By Sig Shonholtz For most of us, the phrase “what a coincidence” is simply a phrase like any cliché. I was still in high school when I started thinking about it more seriously. It was the result of ... Read More

By Jeffrey the Barak. Geologists would say that the Los Angeles Basin is like a huge bowl of sand The geologic center for the Los Angeles Basin is the place where the Los Angeles River and the river known as Rio Hondo merge in South ... Read More

Global warming is 51% cow farts It’s not  your local coal power station, or your soot-spewing school bus. It’s not even the production of your mountain of plastic waste. No, global warming has been pushed over the edge of the point of no return by ... Read More