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In an essay about the importance of salt in the Roman economy, Flavius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus wrote in 523AD: “Upon your industry all other products depend, for although there may be someone who does not seek gold, there never yet…
When Confederate soldiers fired their cannons at Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor on April 12, 1861 and started the Civil War, they did so with a great deal of enthusiasm and optimism. But as the months went by, it became…
At the edge of the glowing horizon, Out of my Earth’s primordial ooze, The muses dance up Past eons of evolution, Bringing to me timeless wisdom That spirals and zigzags Around the shadowy cobwebbed corners Of my awakening mind Until……
Almost every American knows the story of the 1587 lost colony on Roanoke Island. What happened to the estimated 120 men, women, and children is a mystery that has never been completely solved even after 400 years of intense research…
When we look into the night sky at the stars and the dusty, gaseous interstellar nebula’s between them thousands or millions of light years away, we are witnessing the process of our own birth. These distant objects are our ancestors.…
The full moon has pulled the tide high Through the marsh and into our yard, While rain that fell for hours in the night Filled the wetlands behind us. We sit precariously In our stilted home On the sandy boundary…
For decades before the turmoil and destruction of the Civil War, Charleston, South Carolina had a small but thriving scientific community. Since a concern of the early Carolinians was for growing crops to both feed themselves and for profitable export…
From the day of our birth until the atoms that form us return to the cosmos, everything we do has a time to do it and a time to move on to something else. We each have a history, a…
Most conscientious gardeners and others who grow plants must be good edaphologist in that they are people who need to be concerned about the relationship of soil to the plants that grow in it. Vegetable and flower gardeners, as well…
Whether you are an omnivore, a vegetarian, or vegan, carbon atoms have traveled long and far from the cores of recycled stars in order to keep you alive. Your nourishment begins with photosynthesis, the process of green plants turning sunlight…
