They have a face only a mother could love, they’re considered a delicacy when roasted, they can regenerate parts of their brains, and their common name is “water monster.” They’re also becoming extinct. “The axolotl, also known as a Mexican salamander (Ambystoma mexicanum) or a Mexican walking fish, is a neotenic salamander, closely related to the tiger salamander. Although the axolotl is colloquially...
Read More“Do you like astronomy, the universe? Great, ’cause we are the astronomers of the information universe. The STKO Lab is an information observatory that investigates the role of Space and Time for Knowledge Organization. Thus, if you like, you can also spell out the STKO acronym as Spatio-Temporal Knowledge Observatory. Our work spans across different scientific disciplines such as geoinformatics & GIScience, cognitive...
Read MoreClaudia Folska has a dual doctorate (2012) in urban planning and cognitive science from the University of Colorado (Denver College of Architecture and Planning and the CU Boulder Institute of Cognitive Science), and she recently contacted the UCSB Department of Geography to let us know that she is now the Director of the Regional Transportation District of Denver, Colorado. Both her dissertation and her appointment to the Regional...
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