Tag Archives: natural history

What is academic success?

Posted on May 2, 2013 by Joan E. Strassmann

When you click on a region on Google maps under satellite view it will first come in fuzzy. If it is a well-covered area, it will gradually come into focus in amazing detail. Other less popular regions never come into … Continue reading →

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Did you forget about books?

Posted on April 7, 2013 by Joan E. Strassmann

Did you forget about natural history, the story of the earth and its inhabitants in all their particulars? Yes, particulars, for it is in the details that the most wondrous stories lurk. Have you learned the specifics of even a … Continue reading →

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