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The Jeffrey L. Star lab is named after a UCSB Lecturer in Geography who helped to establish the core curriculum in remote sensing in the early 1990s and who, along with Jack Estes, identified the need to integrate remote sensing and GIS. Jeff had a PhD in Oceanography and was a brilliant computer scientist; his life was cut short by cancer in 1994. Dr. Star was born august 11, 1953 in New York City. He received his BS degree in...

The following, with the title above, is by Adam Cole from the January 18 NPR food blog, The Salt: Most folks who resolved to cut down on coffee this year are driven by the simple desire for self-improvement. But for coffee drinkers in 17th-century Turkey, there was a much more concrete motivating force: a big guy with a sword. Sultan Murad IV, a ruler of the Ottoman Empire, would not have been a fan of Starbucks. Under his rule, the...

The following article with the title above is by Erik Klemetti, an Assistant Professor of Geosciences at Denison University and a science blogger for wired.com: This post is based on a question I was posed in my “Introduction to Rocks and Minerals” class. Now, mind you, it isn’t a serious question, but when I thought about how to answer it, I realized how completely wrong everybody has been about it. The revelation...