Welcome to the Extreme & Polar Islands Conservation (E.P.I.C.) blog. Weekly posts will explore conservation issues that pertain mainly to the Polar regions: their oceans and their remote islands. The Future of the Arctic For anyone involved in oil, mining, gas or conservation, it is no secret by now that the North is where most… read more
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FROM NATURE TO HUMANITY In the 1700s, French astronomer Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille began naming newly discovered constellations after human inventions. Looking through his telescope, he identified patterns among the stars and gave them names. One became Horologium, honoring Christiaan Huygens and the pendulum. Another became Microscopium, after the microscope. Of the seventy constellations recognized at… read more
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