Continental Calving

You know how glaciers calve into the sea, creating icebergs, right?

Antarctic Glaciers 

After the Tsunami of 2011, I began to wonder if the same thing could happen the subducting earth's crust going under a continental plate.

Geology Cafe 

 Wondering what might happen if it just snapped off and sank into the asthenosphere? It probably just melts at the end and is absorbed, but what if it snapped? Would a giant fissure open up, flooding lava to the surface?

Gun Violence as a Health Issue

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) was researching gun violence within the context of health until 1996 when the National Rifle Association lobbied the United States Congress effectively enough to enact a "ban" on federal funding for gun violence research.

• PRI (07/02/2015) : Quietly, Congress extends a ban on CDC research on gun violence 
• NPR (12/08/2015) : Congress Still Limits Health Research On Gun Violence 
• Washington Post (01/14/2015) :Why the CDC still isn’t researching gun violence, despite the ban being lifted two years ago 

So, what was it that Congress was so upset about that they had to shut down the CDC's efforts to treat gun violence as a health issue?

• New Hampshire Public Radio (nhpr) : CDC Studies Wilmington, Delaware's Gun Violence As Public Health Issue 
• New York Times (12/24/2015) :When Gun Violence Felt Like a Disease, a City in Delaware Turned to the C.D.C. 
• Delawareonline.com (01/27/2017) : Post CDC report, officials suggest more youth support 
• The Atlantic (04/05/2016) : Why Did the CDC Stop Researching Gun Violence?

Consent

When rape is reported in the news media, many people have an irrational reaction and make sweeping generalizations about categories of people to which they do not belong.

It's east to make assumptions about everyone who belongs to one of these groups, if you don't belong to one or more of these groups: Poor people, rich people, dark people, light people, men, women, different language speaking people, skinny people, fat people, tall people, short people, bald people, uniformed people, exposed people, covered-up people, hat wearing people, facial hair people, different eye-shape people, tattooed people, political people, religious people, secular people, deformed people, low-pants people, backwards hat people, etc.

• Rape occurs when people assume consent instead of actually asking for consent.
• Fashion is not consent.
• Consent as defined in your own culture does not apply in other cultures.
• Rape occurs when people get consent but their partner is not at the legal age for consent based on state laws.
• Rape occurs when people get consent but their partner is under the influence of drugs or alcohol.

Here are some links to help you understand consent:

• Consent is Sexy 
• “Get Consent” Campaign for the Concordia Sexual Assault Resource Centre 
• Alcohol, sex and getting consent