Can I Get a Pack of Camel Lights?

The Animal Collective member’s first solo album is a personal, psychedelic trip indulging his fascination with the hurdy-gurdy.

Is Greenland really a land of untapped riches? A geologist went looking in the 1990s

Is Greenland a land of rare earth riches? The Indicator tells the story of an Australian geologist who learned the great cost ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Did Earth Once Have a Ring Like Saturn? Geologists Find Evidence for a Halo of Orbiting Space Rocks 466 Million Years Ago

An illustration of Earth with a ring. Kevin M. Gill via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY 2.0 During a tumultuous period for our planet around 466 million years ago, Earth was pelted with meteorites and ...
Artnet

A Geologist-Art Historian Says She Knows Where the Mona Lisa was Painted

Art historians have tussled for ages over many aspects of what is arguably the world’s most famous painting: Leonardo’s Mona Lisa (ca. 1503–08). Who was the sitter? What does her smile mean? Is the ...
KJZZ

This former Flagstaff geologist is training to be an astronaut. Here's what she's learning

Dr. Lauren Edgar has already had a remarkable career. She spent 17 years working with the Mars Science Laboratory and Mars Exploration Rovers.
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I watched every movie with a female geologist and here’s what I learned

When I decided to study geology, I had only seen two movies with female geologists: Volcano and Jurassic Park. They did not exactly convey what working as a geologist is like (thank goodness!). Would ...