Alumna Pam Dalal (PhD 2014) and Geography Professor Kostas Goulias recently uploaded an article on academia.com titled “An Analysis of Jobs, Business Establishments, Housing, and Commuting Travel in the Smart Growth Centers of the Puget Sound Region.” Academia.com “is a social networking website for academics. It was launched in September 2008, and the site has over 11 million registered users as of 2014. The...
Read More“The largest concentration of methane emissions seen in the U.S. over the past decade has been detected by satellite over the most active coal-bed methane production area in the country — the Four Corners area of New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, and Arizona,” according to a new study published Thursday. The following is an October 9, 2014 Climate Central report by science journalist, Bobby Magill, with the title above:...
Read MoreMany Western explorers and navigators were pirates, in one form or another – Sir Francis Drake, who managed the second circumnavigation of the world, is a blatant example. Christopher Columbus gets a lot of credit for his explorations, even though he was a seriously flawed human being (see “The truth about Christopher Columbus”). And we all know about The Pirates of the Caribbean and its supernatural pirates and...
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