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 Back around Fall 1981, the University of Alaska Anchorage swimming pool had a challenge - swim the Bering Sea over the semester.  In the po...

 Here's a post I forgot to put up.  We stopped at the  Annenberg Space For Photography  when we were in Los Angeles. These posters...

We just got back from a strange documentary film about Siberian native men who go searching for ancient  mammoth tusks in islands in the a...

The UC Museum of Paleontology gives the dates of the Pleistocene as 2.6 million to 11,700 years ago and says the La Brea Tar Pits is ...

From the new* Scientific American (I can only read the intro without paying): "At the Thai Elephant Conservation Center, tucke...

I ran across a Scientific American article on the history of plastic .  It reminded me how much history has to teach us and how much of it w...

Elephant and mahout coming to beg at Chiang Mai restaurant 2008 Four years ago, I posted about elephant beggars in Chiang Mai, Thailand....

We stopped by the Anchorage museum's visiting Mammoths and Mastodons Exhibit Sunday.  It will be here until Sunday October 9 for those ...

Someone got to a guest post here on Maggie's first anniversary at her new California home by googling the question above. So I called ...

For anyone who wanted to see more of JP's research on elephant self recognition in mirrors, here's a link to the published article ...

[Thursday, April 2, 2009 12:30am Thai Time] The bus to Lampang (about 90 km south of Chiang Mai) dropped us off in front of the Thai Elephan...