Category: Science in Context

January 20, 2018

The best field projects are those that last several seasons; the ones you kind of

January 9, 2018

Have you ever looked at some locale on a map or photograph and thought “that

January 5, 2018

Final exams over, a moment of tomfoolery, and I found myself disconsolate in a hospital

January 1, 2018

A rocky mound, 1500m above, and 119.44 km straight-line distance from the sea, is about

December 5, 2017

This post is about asymmetry – the Arctic and Antarctic polar regions. They are the

November 30, 2017

Krakatoa, 1883, and the seas shivered. The eruption, one of the largest in recorded history,

November 21, 2017

The Saturday Evening Post, March 4, 1944, featured on its cover the iconic Norman Rockwell

November 18, 2017

A “Nitrate timebomb”. Last week’s media metaphor (Nov 10, 2017), was no doubt intended to

November 5, 2017

Christmas morning in New Zealand is synonymous with mid-summer barbecues at the beach, deservedly lazy

October 30, 2017

Saturday August 8, 1829, Felix Mendelssohn and his traveling companion Karl Klingemann, took a boat