Here is some ominous support for the theory I espoused earlier in an article on possible volcanic induced cooling of the climate This would suggest that drought over areas like Yellowstone could indeed dry up aquifers, relieving the containing overpressure of ground water pushing against magma ptessure and cooling the rock, thus maintaing it's strength against eruption.   more »

Is there a reward built into our brain chemistry for anger? Undoubtedly! Fight or flight respoise is the main reactionary system, so we actually get a biochemical reward for anger. Which is why as Bukowski puts it at the end of Factotum, "We are angry not just for a few hours, no. But anger takes over. Years, decades, our whole lives spent in anger, wasted."   more »