I can hardly believe it, but I’ve had this blog up-and-running for a year.  I have almost stopped several times.  It is time-consuming and I don’t really have any way to know if it is helpful to people…and I don’t have a lot of extra time.  I’ve kept going for two reasons:

It has been a [...]

Everyone has dropped a glass or a plate and seen the glass shatter into a million pieces.  It might have been just a momentary lack in judgment or a little stumble over something on the floor, but the result is a mess that can not be cleaned up.  Even if you collected all the [...]

From scienceclarified.com:
The Earth’s crust, the surface layer of the planet, is not solid and unbroken. The forces that rage inside the planet have fractured this brittle layer. Some of these fractures, called faults, lie beneath the surface of the crust. Other faults, however, have ruptured the surface, cracking the crust into various-sized blocks of rock. [...]