People have been asking about the New Guinea earthquake and what they can do to help. I must confess that I am a bit blasé about it. We have responded to the earthquakes in Haiti in 2010 and were in Nepal in 2015 during their earthquake. Earthquakes are scary and often bad. In Haiti the…

We just spent two weeks in Cuba. Most nights were on a Lindblad / National Geographic ship but days were almost all on the island. We got to see several cities as well as forests and birds (five new lifers!). Cuba is beautiful and the people are friendly – overall the trip was a joy….

We are back in Nepal at Kathmandu University, teaching and following up on our previous projects. The new version Ball and Binder works as well as the old one but is more comfortable, simpler and much more robust. Everyone we talked to before leaving the USA thought we would have “fun” and I guess we…

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