When many people think of Alcatraz, visions of a high security prison come to mind. For most of us, it’s that island in the shadow of the Golden Gate Bridge in San...
Plate Tectonics California’s landscape is shaped in large part by plate tectonics, and in particular, the movement of the North American, Pacific, and Farallon plat...
The House of Lime Today’s Cardiff House has had many occupants over its 151 year history. Except for the University, they all have had one thing in common – t...
It was March of 1936, in the farms of southwest California. The woman pictured above had just sold her tires as a last, desperate effort to barter another day’s worth of...
Gazing over the waters of Monterey Bay this week, you would be forgiven if you thought you were in the tropics. A bloom of tiny phytoplankton called coccolithophores has...
The main entrance to the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) is gateway not only to a world class institution of higher learning, but also to the Cowell Lime Works...
From a far glance, the flat, dry surface of Racetrack Playa, in Death Valley, California, invites you to perceive a cloudy lake. Nearing the Playa, this mirage evolves in...
Capturing and viewing still images has changed the way humans look at and understand the world around them for centuries. Paintings and drawings took hours to create but...
There have been stairs going up Mission Hill from here for over 100 years. The stairs here today were built after 1964. The retaining wall, however, is considerably older...
We celebrate July 4th, 1776 as the day our nation was born. But what really happened that day? The surprising answer: not much. At most, some bureaucratic tweaking of the...
