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“Indigenous people have been on the far northeastern edge of Canada for most of the last 10,000 years, moving in shortly after the ice retreated from the Last Glacial Maximum. Archaeological evidence suggests that people with distinct cultural traditions inhabited the region at least three different times with a possible hiatus for a period betweenContinue reading “Multiple Indigenous occupations of Newfoundland since the Younger Dryas”

“The number of hungry people in the world ‘remains unacceptably high’ with millions still experiencing chronic hunger and many places suffering from acute food crises and even famine, according to the latest Global Hunger Index (GHI). “The 2017 GHI, which is jointly published on Thursday by Concern Worldwide, the International Food Policy Research Institute andContinue reading “Global hunger index”

Looking down on DTLA and the 110 Freeway from US Bank Tower.   Wandering the Arts District.

Joel Reynolds, senior attorney for the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and executive producer for “Sonic Sea”, a Discovery Channel documentary about protecting whales from sonic pollution, just won an Emmy last night.

It’s hard to sit in an old Schloss without A/C and write code when it’s this hot outside and in; but it’s easy to see why we’re here investigating climate change and what to do about it in the future. Source: https://phys.org/news/2017-06-heatwave-europe-london-siberia.html

Arts District district art and Echo Park Lake.   Hollywood Forever Cemetery, when Cinespia showed “The Fifth Element” with Luc Besson, Milla Jovovich, and Chris Tucker presenting. (Bonus: Johnny Ramone grave stone.)   DTLA on Bunker Hill, and looking across Vista Hermosa Park, at Bunker Hill.

Julie Payette spoke at Queen’s while I was a student (whether I was a senior undergraduate or Master’s student at the time, I cannot recall). She was an amazing person to hear — down-to-earth, unassuming and friendly, but self-confident and committed to NASA’s exploration mission. At that time, there was a lot of uncertainty aboutContinue reading “Canada’s next GG to be Julie Payette”

These come from an incredible collection of photos from a 1908 expedition to Yosemite and the Sierras by Harold Fairbanks, a geographer-geologist who obtained his PhD from UC Berkeley in 1896. I understand that these are faculty members — we can’t even get ours to attend the same coffee hour! Photographic negatives from the HaroldContinue reading “Fairbanks collection negatives”

BBC Online put up this tribute — and it’s great to see SNO at the top of its list. Also, this is the most Canadian thing I’ve seen in a while (from my present Californian perspective): the federal government branded a logo!