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Tag Archives: Croatia
The Center
We love the superlative – biggest/smallest, widest/narrowest, and more often than not, the tallest, heaviest, strongest rather than the shortest, lightest, weakest. Not many travel posters feature the ‘averagest’ waterfall, tree, or lake. So it might seem against human tendency … Continue reading
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Riding the Moho
Today is the anniversary of the birth (January 23, 1857) of a brilliant geophysicist with an unpronounceable name (unless you are Croatian) – Andrija Mohorovičić. (You may say On-Dree-Ya Mow-Hoe-Row-Vitch-Itch. Or, like many a grad student, you could simply … Continue reading