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Advance sales open for Jack’s latest book
The National Geographic is now taking advance orders for Jack's latest book, The Field Guide to the Water's Edge, which will begin shipping on May 1, 2012. Jack is co-author with Stephen Leatherman, who is widely known as Dr. Beach for his annual 10 Best Beaches lists. Stephen's day job is is the director of the Laboratory for Coastal Research at Florida... »
Using weather to teach science
Jack Williams was among the 10 men and women who offered teachers ideas for using meteorology in the classroom at the 2011 National Weather Association Teachers' Workshop on Oct. 17 in Birmingham, Ala. Williams offered suggestions on how teachers could use graphics and text in his AMS Weather Book: The Ultimate Guide to America's Weather. He mentioned that the Book's... »
Answers: heating, cooling degree days
Q: Several years ago, you wrote a short article for USA TODAY about heating degree days. I have depended on that article, and its links, to monitor the heating and cooling degree days in my area. Now, I cannot access this article any longer through a USA TODAY search and I'd really like to have access to it. I would... »
Photos of the Shuttle Discovery launch
The photos in this gallery snow the first two minutes of the Feb. 24, 2011 Space Shuttle Discovery launch. They were taken using a 300 mm lens from the media area at the Kennedy Space Center, Fla., which is approximately three miles from the launch pad. Note that from photo 6 to photo 9 in the gallery Discovery rolls so that the orbiter... »
