The first sentence (more or less) of the first post of each month from this blog:
- 4 January: Definitely an oldie but a goodie: in a 1990 paper for Journal of Political Economy, Hugh Rockoff put together a marvelous reading of L. Frank Baum’s Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) as an allegory of the pros and cons of bimetallism as a progressive-era monetary policy (caveat lector: there are some scannos in this copy of the paper).
- 1 February: It was quite a pleasure to see a full evening’s program from Company E, after having seen this young modern-dance organization at the VelocityDC Dance Festival showcase.
- 1 March: The team faced down the sleety weather this morning to start the rounds of checking nest boxes.
- 1 April: Bob Neidt takes a quick photo tour of retro motel properties in northern Virginia.
- 3 May: A strong production of this audience favorite, certainly a standard against which other productions can be judged.
- 2 June: Ed Yong watches John Hutchinson and his team dissect a Komodo Dragon (Varanus komodoensis), our 3-meter long monitor lizard.
- 5 July: Dave Taft offers a splendid 24-hours sampler of the wildlife to be found within New York City, be it animal, vegetable, or fungal; native or alien invasive.
- 1 August: Juicy views of the model board at NYC’s West Fourth Street control tower.
- 1 September: From time to time I would remember a TV series from my childhood with a fairly simple premise: whatever the problem at hand might be, it could be solved by hopping into an airboat and zipping through the bayous to the other end of the county.
- 4 October: Sheila Callaghan’s new play, a satire of gender roles and social expectations about mental and physical fitness, features some high-energy set pieces: white girls rapping about how to satisfy them, a dance club that morphs into a Paris boîte in the 1920s, a food fight with heads of lettuce.
- 1 November: Andy Goldsworthy talks to Terry Gross.
- 4 December: A couple of quick snaps from a short trip to Boston for training and meetings, with a visit to our Digital Services unit.
The year in review: