"I wouldn't call myself humble," says former Apple evangelist Guy Kawasaki, but thinking too much about your personal brand is "a slippery slope toward egomania."
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Elm Point and Buffalo Bay Point are quite possibly America's most obscure exclaves in Canada.
Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage is one of the most famous novels ever written about combat, in general and in the American Civil War, where the book is […]
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Parents should be telling their sons: “Work hard so you can go to college. Not only will you make more money, but it's your best chance to get laid."
Well, 2010 is over; hope it was a good one for you. For those who may be interested, here are a few statistics about this blog from the past year… Overview […]
Did a cheeky Ozzy intern change this map as a nod to his separatist mates back home?
Imagine just for a moment; a floating, orbiting and operational laboratory holding several crew members at any given time, weighing over 900,000 lbs. It’s over 350 feet wide, with solar […]
Last week marked the ten year anniversary of the announcement of the cloned sheep Dolly. While the U.S. press largely passed on the moment, the Canadian and British media paid […]
Mystery volcano in Kamchatka is disrupting flights to Asia and the local residents around Kelud in Indonesia refuse to heed the warnings of an imminent eruption. UPDATE: Erroneous news feeds got me ... this is old news (but still illustrates an important point).
nn “I was contemplating the logo and slogan of `The Hospitality Industry`, the vaguely named corporation that apparently makes foil/paper wrappers for hamburgers, wondering just what `Special World` they were […]
n nn According to Barack Obama, “there are no blue states, no red states, only the United States of America”. That is the rhetoric one should expect from a president-elect, […]
The 'bloodless' Aroostook War is variously said to have cost the life of a cow, a pig, or a single U.S. private.
“While on vacation in Dubrovnik, Croatia this summer, we ran across an old Yugoslav atlas which included this map on the entry for the US. My Serbo-Croatian isn’t so good […]
Is this map merely absurd or does it make a political point?
For me, this might be the original strange map. When I was a kid, I had the Spitting Image book that contained this map. I spent hours (well… whole quarters of hours) […]
Slides and synchronized video of the presentations from the AGU panel “Re-Starting the Conversation on Climate Change: The Media, Dialogue, and Public Engagement Workshop” are now online. Below I link […]
This map beautifully captures the changeable course of the Big River
The Maine Solar System Model recreates the relative distances between the sun and planets along a stretch of U.S. Highway 1
“Brion Gysin was a true subversive,” writes Laura Hoptman in Brion Gysin: Dream Machine, the text accompanying New York City’s New Museum’s exhibition of the same name. “Gay, stateless, polyglot, […]
Changing the conversation about climate change: Graduate students from American and George Mason Universities prepare interview tent on the National Mall. WASHINGTON, DC — How do Americans respond when they […]
“Fog in Channel, Continent isolated” is one of the better remembered British newspaper front page headlines, but as the new Coalition Government here in London takes its swingeing axe to […]
Britain’s Prime Minister, David Cameron announces today that deep cuts in public expenditure “will change British life”. They will in short be the most drastic public spending cuts in a […]
Next week there will be big news on the science communication front. In anticipation, I was just going back over some things that I have written on the topic over […]
By mid-century there will likely be 9 billion people on the planet, consuming ever more resources and leading ever more technologically complex lives.
The second part of Eruptions readers' recollections of the historic May 18, 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens.