454 research outputs found
Take a journey to saga country, Reykjavik, Iceland
No full textA travel article about a journey to Reykholt in Western Iceland, once the farm of saga author Snorri Sturluson.\ud
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A TRIP back into snowbound Iceland's past in search of a famed warrior-poet throws up some old memories and fresh revelations for Kari Gislason \ud
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"The fish must sing." An odd idea, I know - one uttered by a merchant in a novel by Halldor Laxness. But it said no more than what every Icelander since the settlement had known. If you were going to live on the edge of the world, it paid to do something to remind the rest of the world you were still here..
Literary Studies : The Author Cat - Clemens's Life in Fiction
No full textA review of The Author Cat: Clemens's Life in Fiction by Forrest G. Robinson (Fordham UP, 2007).\ud
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Even at its most basic, guilt forms a counterweight to the hesitancy and unpleasantness of authorship, forcing writers back to the desk when they have come to despise their work. Guilt as task-master is familiar to most, even those to whom more elevated feelings, such as inspiration, make occasional visits. It seems that guilt is effective because writing is so seldom an organic or natural activity - rather, good writing emerges out of unhappy pressures that eventually overwhelm the writer's evasive strategies, from visits to the fridge door to the most sophisticated forms they take, such as when the author creates a narrative persona that claims to have owned up..
Rapid solubility and mineral storage of CO2 in basalt
No full textThe long-term security of geologic carbon storage is critical to its success and public acceptance. Much of the security risk associated with geological carbon storage stems from its buoyancy. Gaseous and supercritical CO2 are less dense than formation waters, providing a driving force for it to escape back to the surface. This buoyancy can be eliminated by the dissolution of CO2 into water prior to, or during its injection into the subsurface. The dissolution makes it possible to inject into fractured rocks and further enhance mineral storage of CO2 especially if injected into silicate rocks rich in divalent metal cations such as basalts and ultra-mafic rocks. We have demonstrated the dissolution of CO2 into water during its injection into basalt leading to its geologic solubility storage in less than five minutes and potential geologic mineral storage within few years after injection [1–3]. The storage potential of CO2 within basaltic rocks is enormous. All the carbon released from burning of all fossil fuel on Earth, 5000 GtC, can theoretically be stored in basaltic rocks [4]
Richmond Park School District No. 4280
No full textPhotograph - Staff members, Leroy Barker and, left to right: Lorraine Gislason and Mary Gislason (nee Kowalchuk)Barker, Leroy; Gislason, Lorraine; Gislason, Mar
Author in waiting : self-portrait of Peter Goldsworthy as a boy
No full textReview of His Stupid Boyhood by Peter Goldsworthy (Hamish Hamilton, 2013)
Popular Science
No full textReview of The Anatomist by Bill Hayes (Scribe, 2008).\ud
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Bill Hayes wanted to write about Henry Gray, the author of Gray's Anatomy (1858), which at least until the television series connoted a standard text for anatomy students. Perhaps even more seductive for the biographer than the book's enduring appeal was a sense that Gray himself had partly disappeared from the historical record. Here was a scientist with the sort of brilliant young mind that seemed a specialty of the Victorian Age, and yet one who had not benefited from that period's compulsive documenting of the men of the moment and their deeds. Surely in that mystery there lay a narrative..
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