Earth Watch Report –  Sinkholes

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AP Photo/Chris O’Meara

Authorities evacuated neighbors Friday around a sinkhole that swallowed the interior of a Florida house — apparently taking a man to his death — describing the sinkhole as “seriously unstable” and likely to keep growing.

Jeffrey Bush, 36, hasn’t been heard from since he screamed as a 20-foot-deep by 20-foot-wide hole opened underneath his family’s home near Tampa late Thursday. Officials and engineers were continuing their search for him Friday.

“I couldn’t get him out,” said Bush’s brother, Jeremy, who tried to rescue him. “All I thought I could hear was…

Given the recent discussion on the crit-geog list about scholarly citations, I thought it would be amusing to see how this applied to Foucault, who obviously pre-deceased any of these metrics. Well, he’s still going strong:

But do I detect a levelling off, especially in recent years? Has the “Foucault market” reached saturation? What we need is some innovation to increase competitiveness! The REF demands he show impact.

new link to Manuel Delgado Ruiz’s blog posted at right in blogroll (also below)

http://manueldelgadoruiz.blogspot.com/

Manuel Delgado Ruiz (Universitat de Barcelona) is author of a number of books and articles on topics from Urban Anthropology/Urban Studies, the Barcelona model, the city as a site of struggle, public space and more…

Also from the Universitat de Barcelona is the geography journal Scripta Nova (online):

http://www.ub.edu/geocrit/nova.htm