Back in November 2012, Alumna Julie Dillemuth (PhD 2008) wrote to say that she had left academia to become a full time mother and writer (see “Julie Dillemuth Finds Her Way as a Writer”). At the time, she stated: “Wouldn’t it be neat to help promote spatial thinking in kids through fun, engaging books? Not straight-up educational books, but fiction stories with spatial themes and lots of spatial...
Read MoreThe following is a ThinkProgress.org article by Natasha Geiling, posted July 23, 2015, with the above title: Aside from corn, rice might be the single most important staple crop on Earth. According to the International Center for Tropical Agriculture, more than 3.5 billion people around the world depend on rice for at least 20 percent of their daily caloric intake. But rice is also a major source of methane, a potent greenhouse gas...
Read MoreThe following NatureWorldReport.com article posted on July 24 by Ian Lang and with the title above is one of many regarding an innovative method of collecting data about whales: Whales – why study them? Well, for starters they’re among the largest creatures to ever live on Earth, and most species happen to be threatened or endangered. The problem is, as smart as they are, whales lack the capacity to understand that the men...
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