Marco Polo beat Columbus

Marco Polo beat Columbus

A trunk-load of maps and letters reveals Marco Polo’s greatest secrets. He served as a “field agent” for the Polo Brothers’ Spy Team. Sent to observe and infiltrate the government of Kublai Khan,…
The Illuminated Origin of Species

The Illuminated Origin of Species

Teacher turned artist Kelly Houle has set herself to the task of creating an illuminated version of the unabridged first edition of Charles Darwin's world-changing book. An example of such an…
Making friends in Chemistry

Making friends in Chemistry

A year and a half ago, an article about cycads at the University of Giessen brought to my attention the University’s most famous member, about whom Wikipedia says: “In the 1820s, the organic chemist…
The Icebreaker Yermak

The Icebreaker Yermak

The Icebreaker Yermak Vice-Admiral S. Makaroff of the Imperial Russian Navy was primarily an oceanographer.   His paper On some Oceanographic Problems, Proceedings of the Royal Society of…
A Brief History Of Arctic Warming

A Brief History Of Arctic Warming

A Brief History of Arctic Warming Prior to the golden age of global exploration, during which America was first settled, little was know about the Arctic regions or even about climate science in…
The Moon And The Telephone

The Moon And The Telephone

The Moon And The Telephone In the history of the discovery of climate change and its causes, there are many pioneers whose work in relevant areas is all but forgotten.  Some of these people are…
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