There are plenty of rock stars out there who climb to the top of their profession by being outrageous, bombastic, colorful, and sometimes, just plain weird. Sure, there has to be en…
Listening to the opening lines of The Beatles Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, it struck me that it has been fifty years since I began my semester long stint student teaching. Okay…
The Van Halen brothers were really into George Orwell when they were working on the album listed in the title above. Don’t recognize it? They originally wanted to call it Animal…
Both Chinese and Greek philosophers are given credit for the origins of the old saying, “The wheels of justice turn slowly.” Sun Tzu’s version is often quoted (“Wheels of ju…
We left Part 1 of this story just as the surface rescue teams finally penetrated the lowest levels of the San Jose Mine. At this point, they had no idea if there were any survivors …
The first time I was underground in a working mine was in the spring of 1974. Eleven of us crammed into a thirteen passenger van and left Marquette to take a geological field trip around Lake Superior…