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A river runs through it
Everyone seemed to like my sunrise over the Indian Ocean yesterday, so here is a photo of a river in KwaZulu-Natal. I can't tell you what river, …
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Sunrise over KwaZulu-Natal
I'm just back from South Africa, a memorable trip. I will have to tell you later what I was doing there, but in the meantime here is a view of th…
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A New Year
I'm back in Paris after a family holiday in Rome and Pompei between Christmas and New Year's Eve (we celebrated the New Year in the taxi comi…
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Alice Greenfield McGrath, R.I.P.
My good friend Alice Greenfield McGrath died yesterday, age 92. A fighter against injustice all her life, she is probably best known as the model for…
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Louis Leakey speaks at UCLA
Okay, I have a confession to make: Despite more than a decade covering human evolution for Science and other publications, it has taken me until thi…
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Goodbye to Tarragona
On my way back to Paris via Barcelona, but had a chance this morning to run around Tarragona with my camera. Well worth a visit. The inhabitants live…
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Greetings from Tarragona
I've been on the road for the past week, attending a meeting in this archaeologically rich city (won't tell you now which meeting.) But here …
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A Sunday in Ronda, Spain
I'm on my way home from a meeting in Gibraltar, so stopped off for a day in this southern Spanish town nestled in Andalusia's rugged Serrania…
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The real death panels
The California Nurses Association has published a study showing the astronomically high claim rejection rate among the state's insurance compani…
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Evening in Cappadocia
The peak on the right is Hasan Dağ, a volcano once important to the prehistoric peoples who lived in Central Anatolia for its high-quality obsidian. …
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Interlude in Istanbul
Greetings from Istanbul, on my way to visit the 9500 year old Neolithic (early farming) site of Çatalhöyük, which was the subject of my book "Th…
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A sunny day in the Lake District
The view from Brantwood House, John Ruskin's home for 28 years, looking out over Coniston Water in the English Lake District. Photo: Michael Balt…
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Can we outlaw leaf blowers everywhere?
A waste of fossil fuels, a waste of human energy, and quite frankly, a scam on those people who can afford gardeners because these guys spend all the…
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California cowardice: The morning after
The vow by proponents of gay marriage in California to put the measure on the ballot again next year and try to overturn Proposition 8 is laudable, b…
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Sick days, sick pay, sick system
Congressional Democrats have introduced a bill that would give many Americans seven--count them, 7--paid sick days every year, according to today…
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Coming into Los Angeleeze, bringing in a couple of keys...
Not really, drug enforcement buddies! Nor am I staying at the place depicted in the photo, the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills. But nevertheless …
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Greetings from paradise
My blogging has been intermittent the past week because I was between Paris, Boston, and Santa Cruz, California, where I am now. At least once each y…
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Back in Boston
I'm back in Beantown for several days, before heading to the West Coast for the month of May. So look for more frequent comments on the American …
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In the Lodhi Gardens
The Lodhi Gardens of New Delhi are probably famous enough that I don't have to say much about them, other than offer these modest photos. They ca…
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Delhi: last day
I am off to Hyderabad tomorrow, so had my final swing through Delhi today. The photos you see are a view from a rickshaw in old Delhi; a "yes th…
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My book about Neolithic Catalhoyuk in Turkey and the origins of civilization, the paperback edition. For more information about it, please visit MY WEB SITE
- Michael Balter
- I have been a working journalist for more than 40 years, beginning in Los Angeles as an investigative reporter and then in Paris as a travel, food, and science writer. For more than 20 years I have covered anthropology and archaeology writer for Science, Audubon, Scientific American, SAPIENS, and other publications. I have also covered sexual misconduct for The Verge, Scientific American, and others; I write about mental health, especially schizophrenia; and I engage in occasional media criticism. I returned to the USA in October 2017 after 30 years in Paris, and now live in the New York City area, where I currently teach journalism at City College of New York (I previously taught journalism at Boston University and New York University.) For more about me and what I do, copies of my articles, information about my book, and other goodies, please visit MY WEB SITE
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