E. Kristen Peters

By Dr. E. Kirsten Peters
CNHI News Service

In the mid-1800s there was a smart geologist with a face as sharp as flint who worked in the American Midwest. In those days, the “Midwest” was quite close to the frontier of the country. It took some guts and imagination to live out there, and maybe Charles Whittlesey had both in abundance – for he clearly saw evidence of dramatic climate change in riverbanks and hillsides around him. For Whittlesey, the Ice Age was evident in almost every field and ridge.

Many geologists of the time were still skeptical of the new theory that Earth’s climate could change at all. It wasn’t easy to think that Mother Nature had once put the whole globe into a deep freeze, but my hero got on-board with the program early.

"

Mike Pound

By Mike Pound
CNHI News Service

I sort of messed up.

A couple of weeks ago, Caroline Calvin sent me an e-mail. She mentioned that while she and her husband were walking their dogs in a Joplin, Mo., park one afternoon, they came across what she described as a “smaller version of Stonehenge.” She told me that she and her husband thought the rock creation was sort of neat, and that it was obvious that someone went to quite a bit of trouble to put the thing together.

"

Jeremiah Tucker

By Jeremiah Tucker
CNHI News Service

Now that a couple weeks have passed and Jessica Simpson has been allowed to respond to the "sexual napalm" comment, let's take a moment to reflect.
First of all, a small part of me regrets the backlash that's washed over John Mayer concerning the remarks he made in his recent interview with Playboy magazine because it probably means most celebrities will continue to regurgitate safe, boring pabulum. Regardless of the content of Mayer's
words, you have to admit that was a pretty rollicking interview with crazy, unguarded comments flying like shrapnel. I now know more about Mayer than I do most of my closest friends.
"

Mike Pound

By Mike Pound
CNHI News Service

The Kansas-Kansas State basketball game ended about 15 hours ago, as I type this, and I’m still wondering when my hearing will return.

If there is a “bucket list” for college basketball, I’m thinking that watching the Kansas Jayhawks play the K-State Wildcats in Allen Fieldhouse on the KU campus would be at the top of the list, along with, I suppose, taking in a Duke-North Carolina game along Tobacco Road.

"

Benji Tunnell

By Benji Tunnell
CNHI News Service

It is a great weight I carry, knowing that each week dozens upon dozens of people anxiously flip to my column, after spending ample time with sports, the weather and the occasional Beetle Bailey, dying to know what "that
moron" hated this week.
I have done so diligently week upon week, trudging through the worst that the Keanus and Channings of the world can throw at me. Unfortunately, on occasion, life tends to interrupt even the best laid plans, and this week I was unable to perform my civic duty for you.

"