The Knight of El Dorado

The secrets of El Dorado viewed through a microbial perspective

The formation of the Amazon Dark Earths was a model of sustainable soil management that involved intensive composting and charcoal (biochar) application. Biochar has been the focus of increasing research attention for carbon sequestration, although the role of compost or humic substances (HS) as they interact with biochar has not been much studied. We provide a perspective that biochar and HS m...

Review of Patrick Tierney, Darkness in El Dorado

More than once as the controversy over this book unfolded reporters and others told me the number of footnotes in Tierney's chapter on the measles outbreak: 147. I have now tallied the total number of footnores in the entire book including the appendix (1,599). Such numbers seem to interst people. It is considerable more difficult to quantify the evidentiary force and legitimacy of these footno...

Searching for El Dorado: the impossibility of finding the right rate.

Mars Exploration Rover Spirit Investigation of the “ El Dorado ” Sand Deposit

Introduction: Reddish, relatively bright air fall dust is widespread across the Spirit landing site within Gusev Crater. The transience of dust devil tracks observed in the multi-year record of MOC images indicates dusty air fall continually obscures somewhat darker materials across the site. A few enduring dark-toned areas within the Columbia Hills are exceptional. MOC images show these darker...

The El Dorado of Handball? Foreign Female Players Stay, while Domestic Players Return from Abroad

The main purpose of this research was to study the characteristics of migration in European women's handball based on the Slovenian example and to find the differences between the foreigners coming to Slovenia and the Slovenians transferring to foreign clubs. The research was based on 16 open face-to-face semi-structured interviews (8 Slovenians (age 29.5 ± 6.2 years) and 8 foreigners (age 35.5...