Goodbye Blogger, Hello Wordpress! It was a really tough decision—ok, no, it wasn’t—but I’m officially abandoning Blogger and hopping over to Wordpress. Blogger is the only Google product that disappoints me. It works ok for regular...

Mississippian Period (ambrotype by Alison Carey) "The prospect of fossil discovery put an extra spring in his step that day. For some reason, this area is a hot spot for invertebrate fossils -- crinoids, bi-valve seashells, and horn coral in...

"No matter your cable or satellite package, there's at least one channel almost exclusively devoted to his screwball undersea exploits. While television probably plays a less-than-average role in our household, I must admit that the SpongeBob...

Wild horses in Skull Valley (photo from wikipedia) "There must have been 40 of them. At least that's what we figured when we averaged our counts. A pack of 40 wild horses flowing together in a calico streak across the plateau, with a single gray...

"As the popularity of automobile travel increased, so did the already growing demand for more car-friendly routes. Entrepreneur Carl Fisher dreamed of building a continuous transcontinental highway, and began promoting the idea in 1912. In 1913, the...