Research at a snail's pace

One of the challenges in teaching Plate Tectonics to introductory students is that - along with being spread out over a huge scale - most o...

It's been a cold winter up here. And we're in the middle of a pretty impressive snowstorm, too. I suspect we're going to lose...

It's been cold around here. Very cold. Cold enough that boiling hot water seems to instantly vanish into clouds of steam when thrown ...

Get well cards are cool. Our friends Michael and Lynn Thomas have a wonderful daughter. Caitlin had surgery recently and it's been...

My wife and I went on vacation last week and I'll be sharing pictures and stories soon. To give you a hint as to where we went and what ...

Okay, last up for the year in review (I'm not going through spring/summer things, because vacation). In late October I journeyed out t...