fluff n.— «At a recycling plant in San Pedro and five other similar operations around California, giant shredding machines annually reduce 1.3 million junk cars, refrigerators and other appliances into fist-sized chunks of metal...
bikepacking n.— «We are “bikepacking” to the East Coast and back to California, using solar-powered electronics and several different styles of leg-powered bicycles.» —“A Bikepacking Journey In Search Of Sustainability” by...
If you want to claim something—say, the front seat of a car or the last piece of cake—what do you say? Dibs? Boney? How about “I hosey that!”? The hosts talk about this New England expression, its possible origins, and its equivalent in...
buzzworm n.— «Being in the sun, perhaps the bike path was too warm for this 30-inch buzzworm, a pit viper species common to California and known to biologists and Latin scholars as Crotalus viridis oreganos, or Northern Pacific...
heli-mulching n.— «Rice straw dropped from a heavy-lift helicopter rained down like snow Monday on fire-blackened forest land north of Oroville in an effort to control erosion. The process, known as “heli-mulching,” is set to continue...
There doesn’t seem to be a settled counterpart to bicoastal for someone who travels between two places on the same coast. Maura in Marin County splits her time between Northern and Southern California to be near grandchildren, and bipolar isn’t the...