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The Mars explorer Curiosity's view back at its own tracks after crossing a sand dune in 2014.

Mariner 9: Opening The Martian Frontier

… in 2003. Mars, the red planet so close to Earth, has become a tantalizing target for humans to visit. Noted space … 9 spacecraft ( left ) and the Mariner 9 launch on May 30, 1971 ( right ). This obscured vision would have spelled … then Mariner 9 showed us just how little we knew. It was a good demonstration of how science and technology literally …
Neil Armstrong stands by the Lunar Module "Eagle" during the first walk on the moon in 1969.

Fly Me to the Moon

… Taskforce on February 1, 2016. That achievement has since become a benchmark in American culture. The expression “if we … back on earth. Support for the Apollo program waned as soon as it became evident that America would win the race to … setting up house on a new planet seems like it might be a good plan B should Earth not survive the Anthropocene . An …
Logo for "Canada 150".

Canada 150: Coming Home

… leaders from Métis artist Christi Belcourt to Anishinaabe comedian Ryan McMahon have pointed out that the past 150 … nations. Front and back of the Indian Chiefs Medal, commemorating Treaties 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7. Canada’s inability … partners quite plainly. In 1990 the Canadian government ordered a Royal Commission on Aboriginal People, “RCAP.” One …
Palais de Beaulieu

The Theological Third Way in Latin America

Review of A Gospel for the Poor: Global Social Christianity and the Latin American Evangelical Left, by David C. Kirkpatrick (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019)
… Spirit, teaching them to obey everything I [Jesus] have commanded you” (Matthew 28:19 NIV). This Great Commission found at the end of the first gospel of the New … Network’s founding—“[God] has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly …
JFK and Jackie Kennedy on a sailboat

Watching JFK Live and Die Years Later

… events of November 22, 1963, in Dallas. Conservative radio commentator Bill O’Reilly’s best-selling nonfiction book … about it before the president was pronounced dead just 30 minutes after the shooting. And within two hours, 92% had … in 1975 through national broadcast on Geraldo Rivera’s Goodnight America and has become a staple of documentaries, …
The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism, by Aaron Sachs Book Cover

The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism

Review of The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism, by Aaron Sachs (Viking Books, 2006)
… early in the nineteenth century, but whose adventures and accomplishments were so much admired they made him an … to the Arctic where he saw those Eskimos, Muir rarely wrote again about Native people. As his career went on, Muir more … debate today. Picking up on the work of historians like William Cronon, Sachs points out that this is simply a false …
Herd of horses on desert-steppe

A Postcard from Eastern Kazakhstan

… Once part of the Russian Empire of the tsars and then the Communist Soviet Union, Kazakhstan has been independent … one place, followed by a devastating famine in the early 1930s that cost more than 1.5 million lives, ended a way of … the 1850s. He had been exiled from St Petersburg, the far-off capital of the Russian Empire, for sedition against the …
Hurricane Elena photographed from Space Shuttle Discovery, September 1, 1985

Rough Weather Ahead

Review of Sea of Storms: A History of Hurricanes in the Greater Caribbean from Columbus to Katrina, by Stuart B. Schwartz (Princeton University Press, 2015)
… . Young Hamilton survived this encounter and went on to become the first Secretary of the Treasury of the United … Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century by Geoffrey Parker. In Sea of Storms: A History of Hurricanes in … as divine punishment upon sinful humanity. Now, we are again bearing some responsibility for hurricanes through our …
Ludwig van Beethoven in front of sheet music from his first symphony.

Beethoven’s First Symphony

… the aristocracy-based patronage system, which had sustained composers for generations.  Now, middle-class audiences … venerable musical traditions, as a mere glance at Russia will reveal. From the far-flung Western Hemisphere, … symbolized impending victory (V= dot-dot-dot-dash in Morse code).  From 1956 to 1970, the  Huntley and Brinkley Report …

Las raíces del estado de fallido venezolano

… y Buicks y la clase alta famosamente se lanzaba de compras a Miami donde eran conocidos como los del “dame dos.” En términos políticos, el país era … , y en sólo el 2016, la mortalidad infantil aumentó un 30 por ciento, la mortalidad materna un 65 por ciento y la …