Haiti

The border between Haiti (left) and the Dominican Republic highlights the relative deforestation of Haiti.

Photograph courtesy NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

The quiver tree is dying?

Namibia's landmark trees dying from climate change

Traffic in Africa

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One of the perks of living in a small college town.

Space beer

Beer made in space

Want to spend a few years at school?

This this article

I likes this quote:

How much does increasing college-going rates matter to our economy and society?

Caplan: College attendance, in my view, is usually a drain on our economy and society. Encouraging talented people to spend many years in wasteful status contests deprives the economy of millions of man-years of output. If this were really an "investment," of course, it might be worth it. But I see little connection between the skills that students acquire in college and the skills they'll need later in life.

i liike this a picture. I believe it was taken in Addo.

I guess the elephant let the guy go. Otherwise we'd see a crushed car picture.

Norman Borlaug - Extension agent to the world?

Norman Borlaug's Complicated Legacy