Monthly Archives: May 2022

A never ending story of perpetual surprise. Providing you, dear reader, even the limited detail these entries contain always requires research usually guided by a sense of knowing the questions I want answered. The joy of the journey, however, arises …

It’s not a Monopoly property, it’s a paleocontinent. If you’ve managed to slog through my posts on geology, or more specifically paleogeology, the names of some ancient supercontinents should be at least passingly familiar. Pangaea, Gondwana, Rodinia, or Laurentia should …

The boycotts continue. It’s likely that American readers of this blog know less about the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow than any other in the era of major contracts to televise the Games. The reason for this is, of course, …

My visit to Moscow was nearly, but not quite, the bookend to the trip that started in Beijing. Our small group boarded a train in Beijing early on the morning of 5 June 2013. Twelve days later we arrived in …

Africa. China. Africa. In his 1871 book The Descent of Man, Charles Darwin became the first person to propose the idea that it was “probable” that Africa was the cradle of humans and, in fact, Africa has been the focus …