Human nature yearns to understand our planet’s weather and how we affect it. In a pair of free lectures, Dr. Moustafa Chahine, science-team leader at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.

The Ojai Library lecture series will present meteorologist and Ojai resident Camille Sears at 7:30 p.m. Friday. She will speak about weather patterns and offer simple forecasting tips. Sears has ...

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IN these days of the rapid development of the standard sciences, and the multiplication of their offshoots into considerable sections nearly as big as their originators, it may not be inappropriate to ...

THE publication of “The Origin of Species” and the introduction of the spectroscope as an implement of research, have not wrought perhaps a greater revolution in the biological and physical sciences ...