Snow Up Close
It’s snowing here in the Washington DC area. Well, it’s actually spitting down freezing rain after a few flakes this morning, but that’s about you can expect in this area. But it was also the first...
View ArticleSatellite Image Time Lapse of Artisanal Mining in Peru
My last post was about gold and mercury prices, and how we might measure their relationship. We would expect a relationship between prices of these metals because mercury is used in artisanal and small...
View ArticleI Say Tomato, You Say… Apple of Paradise?
Etymology of “tomato” in Europe and the Mediterranean It’s been an extremely hot summer, which has led to a bumper crop of tomatoes. The harvest is so big that I’ve been bringing them to work to give...
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