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Time lapse photos: NYC, before 1975
Why does time-lapse photography fascinate me so? It reveals changes over time we too often miss, or don’t stop to appreciate. Here’s an excerpt from a 1975 film, set to music recently rel… more →
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub
Infographics creation by students, as a tool of learning
wrote 2 weeks ago: Infographic-a-Day describes this TEDx video (I added the links): Perhaps one of the bigest and most … more →
Jefferson's birthday coming, April 13 -- how will you celebrate?
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wrote 1 month ago: Library of Congress's South Reading Room. Mural of Thomas Jefferson with his residence, Monticello, … more →
Dogwood blossoms in Dallas County! Go see
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wrote 2 months ago: Dogwoods like moist areas, cool in the spring, with slightly acidic soils. Dallas County, up on the … more →
Women to match our mountains: Women at Work, Parts 1 and 2
wrote 3 months ago: I do love the tops of mountains, and I wish I could climb them. Fortunately, there are cameras, peo … more →
Time lapse flight, San Francisco to Paris
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wrote 4 months ago: I continue to like time-lapse photo compilations, and I continue to wonder about how to use them to … more →
Boys' Life on YouTube, February issue preview
wrote 4 months ago: Every time I pick up an issue of Boys’ Life I think how much better students could perform if … more →
Geographic literacy and logic become victims in Republican presidential campaign in Iowa
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wrote 5 months ago: Rick Perry shooting at the coyote in the sky - Mad Mike's America Sidney Crosby, Toronto Maple … more →
A study in geography: The Red River of Texas - film from Texas Parks & Wildlife
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wrote 5 months ago: Seven minutes on the Red River of the southern U.S., the fickle border of Texas and Oklahoma, the ri … more →
Tonight: "Yellowstone in Winter," on Nature, on PBS (Channel 13)
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wrote 5 months ago: One of my favorite places, at the best time of the year to see it (in my humble opinion) — and … more →
SkepticGate II: Fizzled assault on science
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wrote 5 months ago: This Anderson cartoon from the Houston Chronicle in 2009 gets the facts right, but sadly, is still a … more →
Annals of Global Warming: It didn't start with the hockey stick . . .
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wrote 5 months ago: Peter Sinclair comes through with a good explanation of the history of concern about global warming … more →
Japan and U.S. team up on new topographic map of the world
wrote 5 months ago: This will strike a note of joy in the heart of every Boy Scout and every orienteer in the world: Th … more →
Louie Schwartzberg's "Gratitude" at TEDS
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wrote 6 months ago: Kathryn sent me the link and said I had to watch it. One learns to listen to one’s Trophy Wife … more →
November 20, 1942 -- the Alaska Highway opened
wrote 6 months ago: Widening the Alcan Highway, 1942 - Wikipedia image from Library of Congress Thinking of Alaska today … more →
World War II in the Pacific, history on TV today
wrote 6 months ago: Got your Tweets on? Got your e-mail alerts on? World War II history on KERA-Channel 13 today. (Alw … more →
Glories of Glacier N.P.
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wrote 6 months ago: Seven-plus minutes of good reason to get your tail to Glacier National Park as soon as you can. Prod … more →
Shortchanging the Age of Exploration
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wrote 8 months ago: We really shortchange the Age of Exploration in Texas high schools — it’s much more inte … more →
Sky islands in Yosemite National Park
wrote 8 months ago: Nature Notes #16 from the good people at Yosemite National Park: Sky Islands. Throughout the Sierra … more →
Channeling Monty Python: "The border between India and Pakistan is closed for the day"
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wrote 8 months ago: BBC map showing location of Wagah and Punjab, divided between Pakistan and India, south of Kashmir W … more →
