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By Francesca Lungarotti ‘Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary’ Blaise Pascal Magnus, Wilhelm, and Ferdinand von Wright are key figures in the history of science and culture in 19th-century Finland and Sweden, and are deeply rooted in the Finnish national imagination. They are sometimes considered the same person, although […]
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Marli Miller has been fascinated by geology since being an undergraduate at Colorado College in the early 1980’s – and has loved photography since high school. Marli maintained a love for photography all through grad school – and confesses she probably took much too long to complete her PhD (University of Washington, 1992) because of […]
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Located more than 900 kilometers north of Oslo on Norway’s northwestern coast, the amazing Lofoten Islands offers visitors stunning scenery and active outdoor experiences all year long. The Lofoten archipelago is home to 25,000 people living mostly on six main islands: Austvagoy, Vestvagoy, Flakstadoy, Moskenesoy, Vaeroy, and Rost. The archipelago is north of the Arctic Circle but it maintains a relatively mild climate […]
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From August through November across the Northern Hemisphere, vineyard workers are busy with their annual grape harvests. The “grape crush” begins as grapes start to change color, from their bright green hues to greenish yellow for some white varieties or to red, purple or almost black for red varieties. Winemakers check their grapes frequently during the […]
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