Nina Jablonski says that differing skin colors are simply our bodies’ adaptation to varied climates and levels of UV exposure. Charles Darwin disagreed with this theory, but she explains, that’s because he did not have access to NASA.
Read More >We are pleased to announce that Episode 22 of the UC Press podcast series is now available. In this episode, Chris Gondek of Heron and Crane Productions interviews Laurel E. Fletcher and …
Read More >We are pleased to announce that Episode 21 of the UC Press podcast series is now available. In this episode, Chris Gondek of Heron and Crane Productions interviews Bryant Simon as he …
Read More >When Starbucks first started out, a $4 coffee was virtually unheard of. However, as Bryant Simon observes in Everything but the Coffee and on his Red Room blog, $4 at Starbucks went …
Read More >On July 9, 2009, Thomas Gladysz of Examiner.com interviewed author Jeffrey Vance about his newest book, Douglas Fairbanks, which was published by UC Press in December 2008. Vance is a film historian, …
Read More >By Ariel Rosen My year abroad in the City of Lights and the violent aftermath of the election in Iran. At first glance, these two events may not seem to have much …
Read More >We are terribly disappointed that we missed the aromatic return of Trudy, at the University of California Botanical Garden. Trudy is, of course, the infamous “Corpse Flower” or Amorphophallus titanum. This stinky …
Read More >Beneath the ocean surface is a diverse cetacean world. Elin Kelsey, author of Watching Giants, is fascinated by the hidden world of whales and dolphins, and her June 27 interview on CBC …
Read More >While hiking on the North side of Mount Tamalpais, just off the Fairfax-Bolinas Road, we climbed to a spot called Serpentine Knoll. The plants on this section of the trail were dramatically …
Read More >Peter Asmus, President of Pathfinder Communications, is a journalist, consultant, and author of many of books, including Introduction to Energy in California, which was published by UC Press in June 2009. To …
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