The US Government’s PEPFAR program has invested more than $30 billion in the care, treatment and prevention of HIV AIDS. While many studies show benefit in controlling the epidemic, HIV / AIDS is but one of many illnesses that make up the total burden of illness in these countries. There are few studies that have looked at whether this large sum of money has benefited or harmed other aspects of the health system. For example,...

New 1:24,000 scale geologic mapping on the southwestern Washington coast, south of Grays Harbor and along Willapa Bay, indicates nine Quaternary units in what was previous mapped as a single unit. These units include estuarine and near shore sediments, tidal channel sands and gravels, and fluvial gravels and sands, as well as spatially limited river terrace deposits and a quartzite-cobble-bearing sediment that may be related to the Columbia river. Mapping also shows regions previously mapped...

This set of seven videos accompany the book, Puer Tea: Ancient Caravans and Urban Chic.