Posts by geogadmin

The following is a University of Sydney news article written by media adviser Jocelyn Prasad and posted August 12, 2015, with the title: “Big Data Maps World’s Ocean Floor”: Scientists from the University of Sydney’s School of Geosciences have led the creation of the world’s first digital map of the seafloor’s geology. It is the first time the composition of the seafloor, covering 70 percent of the...

On Tuesday, August 4, 2015, in the lobby of the Santa Barbara Public Library, Chair Dan Montello accepted from Mr. Charles L. King a copy of Mr. King’s self-published book, “Santa Barbara County Planning Commission Plans for Orderly Development 1927 to 1965,” a history of planning in Santa Barbara County during the mid-20th century. Mr. King was a planner for the County of Santa Barbara from 1956 to 1988. We...

The following article discusses the concept of a language universal which would validate Chomsky’s controversial theory about a “universal grammar.” It was written as an Ars Technica article by Cathleen O’Grady and posted August 6, 2015: Language takes an astonishing variety of forms across the world—to such a huge extent that a long-standing debate rages around the question of whether all languages have...