“The streets in midsummer. There they lie! The sun beating down upon them all day long, until the stones are individually as hot as frying pans; and the gratings, as you inadvertently set your foot upon them, appear to be of the proper temperature to repeat the martyrdom of St. Lawrence on an unfortunate victim.” (The New York Daily Times, […]
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3rd Place: The Pit in the Woods
In Amazonian Peru, Nigel Pitman was responsible for “Science Saturdays,” when he would try to impart some worldly knowledge to the children of the village near where he was living. He tells the story of one Science Saturday in particular that was especially enlightening for him.
Caitlin Doughty in Perú, part 4
Arrival back into the United States has snapped me back to “reality” – academic e-mails, air-conditioning, over-priced metros, costly produce – aspects of the “developed” world that I did not miss in Peru. Face-to-face conversations, dung-fire warmed homes, three sole taxi rides and free, organic potatoes are all relics of the summer which already seems so far away. Thank goodness […]
Tess Croner in Rwanda, part 4
The third and final stop on our study tour of Rwanda brought us to the northwestern corner of the country, where a chain of dramatic volcanic peaks divides Rwanda from Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. On the slopes of these volcanoes, over half (480 of 880 total) of the world’s remaining mountain gorillas make their home. Back in […]
2nd Place: Return to the Mountain
David Johnson returns to his childhood home in Arkansas to see what fracking has changed (and what it hasn’t).