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Tuesday 1/23/2007
Snow blindness (not like the Styx song)

From the Climbers Guide to Everest: “This painful state comes from the sun burning your eye cornea. It occurs if you don’t wear sunglasses at altitude.When climbing on oxygen, the warm and moist breathing air will escape your oxygen mask upwards and sometimes clog up your goggles, especially upon climbing down. Your choice will then be to climb ‘blindfolded’ or remove the glasses…” MORE âž²

(Disclosure: When I was a kid Styx was one of my favorite bands.)

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Snow

Let it snow! I’ve lived in the Midwestern U.S. all my life and my opinion is that if it’s going to be cold, there might as well be snow. Snow is peaceful, beautiful and fun. Let’s learn more about it, shall we?



Links from January 2007:
1/31: More amazing snow facts
1/30: Flexible Flyer Snowball Maker
1/29: Tire tracks in the back lot
1/26: Avalanches on Wikipedia
1/25: Make-a-Flake
1/24: Giant Snow Flakes
1/23: Snow blindness (not like the Styx song)
1/22: What the hell is a Wovel?
1/19: Extremely boring info about Ice Crystals
1/18: Snowstorm (A Flash game)
1/17: Poems about snowstorms
1/16: Antarctic slang and jargon
1/15: Guide to Snowflakes
1/12: The 10 Worst Snow Disasters in History
1/11: How to drive in the snow
1/10: Save a Snowflake for Decades
1/9: The history of snow cones
1/8: Inuit Words for Snow
1/5: Snow Machines and Evaporative Snow Products
1/4: Amazing Snow and Ice Facts
1/3: A History of Snow Removal
1/2: Wilson “Snowflake” Bentley
1/1: FAQ about Snow Crystals

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