A former schoolmate of mine, Hudson Spivey, has started an interesting new blog entitled, “Confronting Scarcity.”  As the title suggests, Hudson’s site is more focused on the causes and solutions to issues such as over-population and dwindling global food and water supplies rather than the more media saturated theme of global warming and carbon emissions.
Hudson [...]

I want to share a few excellent articles I read while on vacation with the fam in Boston.  The surprisingly interesting Smithsonian magazine (my grandparents are subscribers) featured an article about an archaeologist attempting to reproduce the colors of the Ancient Grecian statues.  My ignorance aside, this was a complete revelation to me.  I assumed, [...]

Just in time for Black History month. Have a listen to these excellent speeches:
Frederick Douglass - What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? [mp3]
Martin Luther King - I Have a Dream [mp3]
(from learnoutloud.com’s Great Speeches in History podcast - listing of all their podcasts)
Up for more history? My friend Matt Bunn [...]