science
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The first major loss I felt as a child happened in the town of Dinosaur, Colorado in a KOA overlooked by a billboard for McDonald’s that my parents tried desperately to hide from all 3 of their children. I had a small figurine of a coelophysis, a souvenir from a paleontology museum in Fruita. I…
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Campi Flegrei, also known as the Phlegrean fields, is a series of 24 volcanic calderas in the ocean outside of Naples, Italy. One of these, the Solfatara crater, was considered the home of the Roman God of Fire Vulcan due to the amount of volcanic activity evident in the area. The caldera itself underlies the…
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In 2022, I was forced to leave the best job I’d ever had for a number of reasons — not the least of which being that I technically was not allowed to have it past graduation in the first place. The pandemic let a lot of things slide. I found an adult job at a…
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Hidden among the rolling fields of corn and soy in Antelope county, Nebraska sit the Ashfall Fossil Beds. This unique death assemblage tells the story of a massive volcanic event that covered the American midwest in ash some 10 million years ago. The animals interred here represent the fauna that flocked to a savannah watering…
from the pen of icarus blake 