April 11-15, 2016
Guest poster Liza Gross details the struggles of traditional societies within the United States to hold onto their cultures in the face of ongoing settler aggression.
Helen used to have a messy desk. Did it mean she was badly behaved or more creative? Now she has a clean desk. Does that mean she’s the opposite?
You know those people who seem to have a hand in all the crucial historical moments of their lifetime? That was Luis Alvarez – the man behind the dinosaur-meteorite theory, discovery of antimatter in cosmic rays, the aircraft blind landing system, night vision binoculars…it goes on!
And in the mid-18th Century it was the Count of Buffon who took that role of Renaissance Man, as well as embarking on a saga that involved Thomas Jefferson and a moose.
A physics project I wrote about five years ago on this blog has since garnered the Nobel Prize.
Photo: From the files of Big Mountain Support Group