Site-Wide Activity

As we’re currently living through a pandemic, I thought that it might be interesting to look at how a different infectious disease played out over a century ago–and I was surprised to find many parallels. Cholera […]

This webpage is dedicated to Mikhail Alexandrovich Vrubel’s 1890 work Demon Cidyatsti/The Demon Seated. It will provide background on the artist and the evolution of his style, a look a the Russian Symbolist M […]

During the last of this course we traditionally cover topics of our choice. If we have time, we will talk about the Channeled Scablands of eastern Washington and related topics, including the famous jökulhlaups. […]

A Boolean Model of Microglial Phenotype Transitions Under Acute and Chronic Inflammation
Class of 2020

Biography

Education

Thang Long high school for the gifted, Da Lat city, Vietnam
The College […]

On Tuesday we will cover petroleum from a sedimentary perspective. Please review the links from last week.

“Tectonics and Sedimentation” is a broad topic with few direct web references; we’ll start with a revie […]

While very important, I thought I
would take a break from the COVID-19 pandemic and cover something different.

On April 4th and 5th,
Chile still held its annual Teletón albeit virtually. Teletón is a t […]

To prevent the Voices WordPress blog network from being attacked by off campus botnets, we require users to use VPN to edit a Voices site from off campus. This means that users will need to follow the appropriate […]

We’ll finish phosphates on Tuesday (review last week’s links) and then on to King Coal and Big Oil. Let’s start with the Wikipedia page on coal, which is very good. A visit to the World Coal Association page w […]

Image Source: João Fellet, BBC Brazil.

This news story
explains the impact of COVID-19 on the indigenous communities in Brazil.
Doctors predict that COVID-19 has the potential to decimate these […]

This week focused on the global Cold War context. On Moodle,
Professor Holt posted two video lectures. Assignments this week included
readings on Perusall, a BBF Reading Quiz, and Draft Research […]

Amidst the pandemic the world has been facing, Cuba has been a beacon of hope. Over the past few weeks, Cuba has sent 593 medical workers to 14 countries to aid their battles against coronavirus. The first team […]