What’s really terrifying about Trump’s control of the bomb is that it’s no aberration: in fact, it’s utterly normal. Democratic politicians – presidents, and would-be presidents – have spoken with no less gusto of their willingness to ‘keep all options on the table’. When Obama s...
For the War Yet to Comeis a feminist and postcolonial critique of a masculinized geography of urban militarism that favors the spectacular and the sublime. This vision of the city at war is blindingly technological and curiously devoid of people, as if seen from above (perhaps from a fighter ...
On the opposite side of the mountains, and because of their very presence, the climate of east Patagonia fits poorly in global classifications. Elsewhere on Earth, the eastern side of a continent at equivalent latitude would present a cool temperate climate, with a noted degree of continental ...
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which is now closed and haunted by ghosts; kissing my wife at the Tropic of Capricorn in Namibia; and being sprayed by the putrid exhale from the blowhole of a 40 ton humpback whale four feet from the starboard side of my sea kayak! The awe and wonder of being so close to such a ...
The two cities near the mouth of the Arno, which flows through one of the loveliest garden spots to be found anywhere outside of the island of Java, are merely of some slight historical interest. Pisa has a leaning tower which leans because the architects were not very careful in laying ...
(Fig.3b, Additional file1: Table S3). However, the Fe content was higher in the samples from the mountain landscapes, while Al and Ca had the opposite trend, but with the BOQ soils representing an exception. Mg was considerably lower in the samples from the north limit of the ophiolite ...
Development of this sector outside the boundaries of EEZs will create a more urgent need for new international agreements and marine governance. 3.1.4. Tidal and wave energy Tidal and wave energy – often considered together as “ocean energy” – represent significant potential for electricity ...
How can this air around you be filled with unseen projectiles? It is like listening to a radio account of a battle on the other side of the earth. It is too far away, too separated to hold reality. OrFrank Musgrave, a navigator with RAF Bomber Command, writing about missions over ...
The sundial 10 is set up for use by aligning the base so that base member 32 lies in a north-south plane, with the right hand end 68 (as viewed in FIG. 1) pointing north and the opposite end 70 pointing south. The base member 32 must be aligned with the true geographic north-sout...