Category Archives: ScotBlogs Contributed

5/4/11 — Wooster’s Matt Barnes turns and fires a pitch during a double-header with Heidelberg. Continue reading →

4/23/11 — Wooster English professor Dan Bourne reads poetry during the 2011 Jam Session held at the Wayne County Fairgrounds. Continue reading →

By Kipaya Kapiga Corruption is not a new force in the Indian political landscape, but the current public outcries are very strong. During the two months, it was rare to not catch glimpse of an anti-corruption themed headline. The detrimental … Co… Continue reading →

We had a familiar trilobite last week, so this week we’ll look at a poorly-known part of a trilobite: the hypostome. Above is an incomplete forked, conterminant hypostome of the large trilobite Isotelus. (Isotelus, by the way, is the state &#8230… Continue reading →

While in Austin, I took the opportunity to view North America’s largest urban colony of bats under the Congress Avenue bridge. Every evening about dusk they emerge in a swarm that takes 10-15 minutes just to fly out. As a … Continue reading… Continue reading →

NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA – As part of the Cutting Edge workshop on Teaching Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry, I had the opportunity to participate in a field trip to the Midcontinent Rift System in northeastern Minnesota. You can imagine how… Continue reading →

By Kipaya Kapiga This is part two of two-part blog post. It can be difficult for social ventures to maintain as sense of integrity when it comes to compensation. As is the case with American non profits, there is a … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I was recently in Austin for the meeting of the Ecological Society of America. They’re very concerned about threats to ecosystems, and very aware that they need to cross disciplinary boundaries in order to address these threats. They brought me &#823… Continue reading →

I’ve avoided having a  trilobite as Fossil of the Week because it seems like such a cliché. Everyone knows trilobites, and they are the most common “favorite fossil” (invertebrate, anyway). Plus our best trilobite (seen above) is th… Continue reading →

MINNEAPOLIS, MN – If you haven’t been following my twitter feed (http://twitter.com/meagenpollock), you may not know that I’ve been at the 2011 Cutting Edge Workshop on Teaching Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry (twitter hashtag… Continue reading →