http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu Tue, 21 May 2013 15:39:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/05/13/climate-and-conquest-how-did-genghis-khan-rise/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/05/13/climate-and-conquest-how-did-genghis-khan-rise/#comments Mon, 13 May 2013 18:29:08 +0000 Kevin Krajick http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=33146 Eight hundred years ago, relatively small armies of mounted warriors suddenly exploded outward from the cold, arid high-elevation grasslands of Mongolia and reshaped world geography, culture and history in ways that still resound today. How did they do it? ]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/05/13/climate-and-conquest-how-did-genghis-khan-rise/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/05/07/in-log-coffins-first-glimpses-of-a-mysterious-asian-people/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/05/07/in-log-coffins-first-glimpses-of-a-mysterious-asian-people/#comments Mon, 07 May 2012 19:57:41 +0000 Kevin Krajick http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=26193 The group traveled by boat, motorcycle and finally by foot through the forest to reach cliffs where burials lay. At one site, 20 feet off the forest floor was a ledge protected by an overhang, where lay a row hollowed-out logs, along with ceramic jars. ]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/05/07/in-log-coffins-first-glimpses-of-a-mysterious-asian-people/feed/ 5 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/03/12/at-the-bottom-of-the-bottom-of-the-world/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/03/12/at-the-bottom-of-the-bottom-of-the-world/#comments Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:27:36 +0000 CERC Guest Blogger http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=23778 As we in North America emerge from a remarkably mild winter, the brief and sunny summer in the world’s deep south is drawing to a rapid close. Antarctica’s days are becoming shorter, and come the vernal equinox the South Pole will enter into its yearly hibernation—six months of dusk and night. Researchers from Columbia University and elsewhere have spent these bright months bearing the chill in pursuit of access to a realm deep beneath the soaring, scathing surface of the glacier.]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/03/12/at-the-bottom-of-the-bottom-of-the-world/feed/ 0