For reasons we never fully understand, an old post suddenly gets a large number of views.  It happened yesterday with this one. Okay, we get that people are interested in understanding as much as possible about environmental issues such as fracking and they pursue as many sources of information as possible to stay apprised.  Search engine algorithms connect them on occasion to items our cabinet of curiosities. The news stories, photos and videos and personal accounts collected on this blog–are meant to add up to something, but we do not fret about the calculus. We just keep on looking, gathering, posting and expect the points to make themselves.  It may be the occasional coincidences that fuel our commitment to this improvisational approach.

Terry Evans, as it happens, came to our attention yesterday just as lots of people visited our blog to read a post from 18 months ago about some knucklehead sipping weird fluids to demonstrate the safety of fracking.  The beauty of this photo should draw you into her site, but look at the project statements.  We are always impressed by photographers who take the time and have the vocabulary to explain what they are doing and how they go about doing it.  We hope she will write more about this North Dakota Oil Boom project.

We also hope professors will continue to investigate newsworthy items, that news organizations will continue to profess important knowledge, and that those with media sway will sway us to think about this important topic from as many angles as possible.