I am no world traveler, but ever since I graduated from high school, I have managed to visit both coasts of our fair country and a handful of places in between.  My first trip by air…

           When I taught my students about the evolution of NASA’s Manned Flight Program, I would mention a project called Dyna-Soar.  I had read snippets about it but never knew many of …

     Though they span decades and many genres, there is a connecting thread between the following list of guitar players:  Jeff Beck, Lindsey Buckingham, Ritchie Kotzen, Robbie Krieger, Albert C…

            After frequently using and citing references from Guitar World magazine, I was asked why a drummer would subscribe to a guitar magazine.  It was a valid question and my ton…

       In Part One, we looked at the tale of the May 18, 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens up to and shortly after this cataclysmic event.  The Monday after the Sunday fireworks, fellow Geo…

     Do you need to be a little bit crazy to be a volcanologist?  I used to show a video to my Geography / Earth Science classes that featured a French couple named Katia and Maurice Krafft.  A…