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As reported in a campus and community article in the January 23, 2014 edition of UCSB’s official news site, The Current, winter quarter book discussions, faculty panels, and featured speakers will culminate in a talk by author Timothy Egan: “UCSB Reads continues through winter quarter with a series of events that includes book discussions, faculty panels, and featured speakers at UC Santa Barbara and at public libraries in...

The FlightAware MiseryMap is an interactive visualization of the state of US flight delays and cancellations. “With more than 6,000 flights within the nation canceled today and more than 1,000 delayed because of the snow and ice storm moving up the East Coast, it’s time once again to point to FlightAware’s MiseryMap. As All Tech Considered has explained before, the map ‘combines weather and flight data into a...

“Geography researchers use real data from the department’s climate monitoring stations to teach students how to explore the environment.” In a February 13 Science and Technology article in The Current, with the title above, Julie Cohen goes on to state: Climate monitoring stations take climate change beyond the anecdotal. These remote monitoring sites, which collect measurements on such data as temperature, wind...