history

What could a 26-year-old white guy from Indiana possibly know about the black experience in America, past or present? 

Happy 100th birthday to a founding father of USGS hydrology.

Our culture is obsessed with productivity. How many times have you answered the question “How have you been?” with “Really busy, and you?” And so, we invent tools to help us get things done.

Before I joined the Academy’s staff last fall, I believed it was rare to witness an individual experience an epiphany—a profound moment of insight, or the connection of dots pointing to a new way of looking at a problem.