I’m at the front end of a short-term program, which means I’m both busy and tired. Today I was at the Siloam Pool excavations and they look better than ever! Everything previously exposed is re-exposed (after being buried for a time) and more. A guy there told one in our group that excavations on the garden (towards the center of the pool) will begin in 3 weeks. We will see!<\/p>\n
The Washington Post today has an interesting article on the Dead Sea drying up (regular link<\/a> with charts; printable link<\/a>-one page). It’s worth reading, if the Dead Sea is a “hobby” study issue for you, as it is for me. A few comments:<\/p>\n Interesting fact: The north end of the Dead Sea is quickly shrinking (3 feet\/year), but the south end is rising and threatening hotels.<\/p>\n Interesting fact #2: In 150 years, as the Dead Sea keeps shrinking, the water will become so saturated that evaporation will stop (the water level will be 434 feet lower than now!).<\/p>\n Stupid quote award: “You don’t have to be Jesus to walk across the Dead Sea anymore” (Gidon Bromberg, Friends of the Earth environmentalist).<\/p>\n Why there’s a problem: Previously about 1.3 billion cubic meters flowed into the Dead Sea each year; currently only 100 million cu. m. does.<\/p>\n And there’s more. By the way, I recently came across some photos showing the Jordan River a mile wide. Very impressive. And it’ll never happen again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m at the front end of a short-term program, which means I’m both busy and tired. Today I was at the Siloam Pool excavations and they look better than ever! Everything previously exposed is re-exposed (after being buried for a time) and more. A guy there told one in our group that excavations on the\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}