Nova’s “Earth From Space” Coming to PBS in February

Nova has an interesting looking documentary coming in February called "Earth From Space". Here's the description from the site: "Earth From Space" is a groundbreaking two-hour special that reveals a spectacular new space-based vision of our planet. Produced in extensive consultation with NASA scientists, NOVA takes data from earth-observing satellites and transforms it into dazzling […]

The “Black Blizzards” of the 1930’s Dust Bowl

A Texas dust storm in 1935   I was watching Ken Burns' PBS special "The Dust Bowl" and saw some pictures of these amazing storms rolling acorss the plains. The documentary was a bit dry, but full of interesting, and scary, stories about who the Dust Bowl came to be and how devastating it was. […]