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One of the benefits of being me is that my friends often make me cool dino-themed stuff for my birthday (f’rinstance). This year, it was this dinosaur dig cake from my friend Jenny Adams. Yes, it’s a vulgar, overstudied theropod,* but I take the [...]
My book manuscript (now in the copyeditor’s hands) has a chapter about the Fan, our peculiar region of gravel hills that stretches from Pill Hill to Evergreen Cemetery. In the book I refer to it as Oakland’s second level. I briefly recount its [...]
In my latest column for State Tax Notes, I outline the impacts rising oil prices are having on the Alaska economy and the state’s citizens, the accomplishments and tasks ahead of the Legislature as it passes the midway point in its regular [...]
The weather was perfect today in verdant northeastern Ohio. Bill Ausich (retired paleontologist from The Ohio State University), Nigel Brush (retired geologist/archaeologist from Ashland University), and I (not retired!) have started a project [...]
Andy Scullion es un artista e ilustrador de Nottingham (Gran Bretaña) especializado en el diseño de camisetas, láminas y pósteres. En su obra encontramos como temas recurrentes las bicicletas y los cuartos de baño. En cuanto a lo primero, [...]
Russia’s decline of the observer invitation and the deaths of several marines underscore the seriousness of the circumstances which surround the event this
Whether the challenge is energy, mobility or water, addiction to the status quo has long cut against doing something incredibly effective at community scale: using
Ancient crocodile claw marks uncovered During the Cretaceous, giant crocodiles, nine to 12 metres in length, basked in the sun and swam in ancient lakes and rivers in what is now northern British Columbia. They lived alongside dinosaurs and [...]
Following the ELI 'A world in a grain of sand', the activity today is 'Sand on a sill; what will happen to a sand grain left on a window sill? – a rock cycle discussion'.This ELI involves a pupil group discussion based on what will happen to a [...]
Chak Cherdsatirkul, one of the first two graduates of Columbia’s Sustainability Management program, shares his aspirations, advice, and post-graduate, award-winning