It's not too early to register for the spring student matinees at National Geographic's DC headquarters. (I believe the February ocean event with Sylvia Earle may already be sold out.) At $5 per student, this is a remarkable opportunity for kids to hear scientists, photographers, explorers, and others talk about their work. All matinees are at 10 am.
*February 21, Sylvia Earle, oceanographer *March 9, Ken Ladzinski, adventure photographer/filmmaker *March 30, Clare Fieseler, marine biologist *April 6, Shah Selbe, conservation engineer *April 14, Steve Winter, big cat photographer http://www.nationalgeographic.org/student-matinees/dc/ Near Seattle, Calgary, or L.A. instead? Check here for local options: http://www.nationalgeographic.org/dc/education
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This map appeared in a Washington Post story on American infrastructure and shows the country's freight rail network by tonnage of cargo moved. The thick lines in the upper-middle part of the map are primarily coal from Wyoming heading to power plants. The dark line terminating in southern California captures intermodal traffic (e.g., containers transferred from ships onto trains) from the busy ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. The dark line running through the Dakotas to the Pacific is mostly grain being transported for export. www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/maps-of-american-infrastrucure/img/railtonnage-600.jpg
What do you do when you are asked to serve a government you disagree with? Jon Alterman from the Center for Strategic & International Studies offers his perspective: "For most in Washington, the current political changes are disorienting. The Obama administration incorporated veterans of previous administrations and fit well within the consensus of elite policy doctrine. The Bush administration did too, and so did the Clinton administration. There were differences but few big surprises. ... Donald Trump was an unlikely revolutionary, a self-proclaimed billionaire insider who played the elite game and now promised to blow it all up on the public’s behalf. His proud (and loud) parochialism has remained at the core of his appeal. He disdained the painstaking nuance of technocrats, and he said he knew better than them. |
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