Monday, June 26, 2017

Second Coffee Myth: Busted

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The first myth of coffee is the myth of its origin about 1500 years ago in Abyssinia, in what is now Ethiopia. A goatherd named Kaldi is sai...
Sunday, June 25, 2017

Beatriz at Dinner

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If I am in my car, I am almost certainly listening to public radio. We live in a place where thoughtful stories and interviews from NPR, PRI...
Saturday, June 24, 2017

Writing Matters

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Good writing is the best evidence of clear thinking. Good writing is also hard work. from   Not-the-13th Grade I wrote this aphori...

Unicorn Cult

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One of my proudest moments as an academic came during a panel discussion on fair trade in 2013, when the economist sitting next to me wrote ...
Tuesday, June 06, 2017

Fifty Years of Temporary Living

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Dalia & Bashir As I have written in this space before, Sandy Tolan's novel*  The Lemon Tree  has been among the most powerful w...
Sunday, May 28, 2017

5 Themes, 50 States, 34 Birds

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Spoiler Alert: Maryland Wins! Image: via   Nicholas Lund, Slate Readers of this space know that I have a very broad conception of what ...
Wednesday, May 24, 2017

E Pluribus New Orleans

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... indivisible ... I was in South Carolina the day in 2000 that the confederate flag was removed from the top of its capitol building a...
Monday, May 15, 2017

NOLA: 90W, 30N

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"You think of New Orleans, you know, like a place, longitude and latitude on a map on Earth, but in a sense, like New Orleans to me it...
Sunday, May 14, 2017

Semi-Seafood

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Is the red marker on land or in the water? Image: captured from Google Maps , May 2017 Click to pan, zoom, and compare in future The ...
Friday, April 21, 2017

Climate Rejoinders

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It was rain forests that originally drew me into geography; I had been focused on linguistics until a friend convinced me to take a course...