Voyages is back for its second season! For our triumphant return, we're visiting a single destination: the University of Oregon's Museum of Natural and Cultural History, home of the fossil that has occupied much of my time over the last few months. We'll explore the evolutionary story it tells, I'll pull back the curtain on how we undertsand that story, and we'll celebrate the role museums play in making sense of the world around us.
The dense rainforests of the Oregon Coast Range, Washington's Olympic Peninsula, and British Columbia's Vancouver Island are an ideal habitat for western red cedar....
In our very first episode, I introduce some of the stories about the natural world and how we understand it told by my home...
At the same time the first modern geologists and biologists were arguing about the meaning of the distant past, Victorian architects were engaging in...