Monthly Archives: March 2011
Jeff Alt, an avid hiker and outdoor enthusiast, offers great tips and strategies for families to head outdoors. In addition to walking the 2,160-mile Appalachian Trail, Jeff Alt has walked the 218-mile John Muir Trail with his wife, and trekked across a 50-mile path of Ireland with his wife, young daughter, and extended family. He [...]
Theme: Entropy Issue No. 27 features a rich and surprising mix of literary, technical, and artistic contributions, all with eloquent responses to entropy — a measure of the disorder or randomness in a closed system: Editorials Guest Editorial “Crossroads if a Water Crisis” by Tara Lohan, Senior Editor of AlterNet and Author of Water Matters [...]
What is the importance of creativity? How does the last two million years of human evolution look when compressed into a single calendar year? Here’s a clue: humans discovered fire on November 19th and developed agriculture on December 29th. In this TedxTucson discussion, Dr. George Land of the Arizona Innovation Institute illustrates the phenomenal rate [...]
Paul Bunyan Lives! And Other Tales from the Natural World By Michael O’Rourke Plain View Press, Austin, TX, 2010 173 pp. Reviewed by Tom Saya We all remember the Paul Bunyan tales: how he formed the rocky Mountains from the shovelsful of dirt he threw over his shoulder while digging the Mississippi, which he would [...]