Tag Archives: Pacific Ocean

Fireworks we can do without. But wow.

Posted on July 3, 2010 by cfeagans

In the summer of 1962 (I was probably a gleam in my Dad’s eye, but my mom was still in high school!), the rocket’s red glare was from a hydrogen bomb, detonated 250 miles above the Pacific Ocean. (in case … Continue reading →

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The First Americans Were Immigrants of Two Populations

Posted on January 11, 2009 by cfeagans

The most recent online issue of Current Biology has an article describing the research which reveals evidence that the first Americans immigrated via two distinct populations at around the same time. One population is comprised of haplogroup D4h3, which took … Continue reading →

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