Speaking of catching up, I got to grab dinner with several high school ladies (and ran into 2 other folks from our graduating class) this week; what a gift to see the people we’ve grown into. That we’re all just people trying our best and that there’s a lot more to connect us...
Activities at Feynan range from hiking and biking in the reserve to spending the day with a shepherd, learning about Bedouin culture from a local family in their goat-hair tented home, and taking a cooking class and making a 3-course Jordanian meal. But our favorite was spending the night ...
When the University of California several years ago threatened to treat the test like a bad batch of cafeteria food and tell applicants not to buy it, the College Board junked the bewildering analogy questions (Warthogs are to pigs as politicians are to what), created a writing section (...
In my prior visit and post I’d experienced and described the lower floor, which is almost exclusively mammals. This “new” floor has everything else that is zoological (animal/Metazoa) and again is organized in an evolutionary context. And here is my photo tour as promised! Inviting, soft...
people keep their distance from him. Since the age of eleven, he has been a member of the neighborhood chapter—or “clique”—of Mara Salvatrucha, which is made up of young males whose families immigrated to Houston from El Salvador and other Central American countries. By his account, he...
An animal’s taxonomy is where it fits in its family tree. From taxonomy, we see where different species diverged from a common ancestor.Cheetah Jaguar Kingdom Animalia Phylum Chordata Class Mammalia Order Carnivora Family Felidae Subfamily Felinae Pantherinae Genus Acinonyx Panthera Species jubatus ...
the predictable canvas for the digital-imagery-happy modern director. WithSunset Boulevardjust a few blocks away, Goold is also punching out of his weight class: Just likeSunset,Tammy Faye’s second act begins with live footage of its star — Katie Brayben, who won an Olivier for the role...