The Fellowship did not begin the Quest in the Shire; nor did the Quest end in the darkest depths of Mordor. There was no trekking through the Mines of Moria, and the Plains of Rohan remain untrod, for ...

Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. Let me start by defending geology’s honor. Is there any other discipline that a rhyme so easily ...

On an unusually warm overcast day in late March, a group of about 25 first-year University of Delaware students walked down a winding path in White Clay Creek State Park. June Hazewski, a master's ...

Emily Fairfax fainted when she started her PhD in geology at the University of Colorado Boulder in 2015. She was out in the field near Boulder, and it was a hot day. “We were standing and walking to ...

When Natalie Flynn surveyed students in her Temple University intro to physical geology classes, she found half weren’t buying the textbook she used. Many couldn’t afford it. “We were developing a ...