During the last ice age, massive continental ice sheets up to five km high covered much of North America and northern Europe (the Laurentide and Fennoscandian ice sheets, respectively).
The geography of science is changing. As a result, a big push is needed to broaden the pool of scientists eligible to nominate their peers for Nobel prizes.
Brisket sandwiches and blackberry cobbler in the 2000s: The early part of the decade was a blur of three babies and very little sleep. I drank so much caffeine during those days that our youngest baby ...