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At Terranea

July 3, 2010

Here's the view from our room at Terranea Resort in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif. The strip of blue in the background is the Pacific Ocean.
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At Terranea

July 3, 2010

Here's the view from our room at Terranea Resort in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif. The strip of blue in the background is the Pacific Ocean.
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The Age of Wonder

February 12, 2010
The Age of Wonder

It’s one of the most interesting books I’ve read recently, the impact of the ‘beauty and terror’ of science on the romantic age, from the late 1700s through the early 1800s. I’ve always been fascinated by Joseph Banks, the young, rich and endlessly inquisitive gentleman scientist on Captain Cook’s first great voyage of...
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