- Washington State Parks (parks.wa.gov)
The Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission cares for Washington’s most treasured lands, waters, and historic places. State parks connect all Washingtonians to their diverse natural and cultural heritage and provide memorable recreational and educational experiences that enhance their lives.
- The story of Columbia Hills Historical State Park is both exciting and painful in its connections to one of the most significant centers of human and natural history in the Pacific Northwest. The park lies just a short distance upstream from the site of the Long Narrows of the Columbia River and about 10 miles downstream from the site of Celilo Falls. Both features were inundated by the reservoir behind The Dalles Dam in 1957. Indigenous people have lived here for millennia, thriving at what was one of the most productive fishing sites in North America, surrounded by rich upland resources and the focal point of an extensive trade network.
- Infinity (plato.standford.edu)
Infinity is a big topic. Most people have some conception of things that have no bound, no boundary, no limit, no end. The rigorous study of infinity began in mathematics and philosophy, but the engagement with infinity traverses the history of cosmology, astronomy, physics, and theology. In the natural and social sciences, the infinite sometimes appears as a consequence of our theories themselves (Barrow 2006, Luminet and Lachièze-Rey 2005) or in the modelling of the relevant phenomena (Fletcher et al. 2019). Mathematics itself has appealed to some form of infinity from its beginning (infinitely many numbers, shapes, iterated addition or division of segments) and its contemporary practice requires infinitary foundations. Any field that employs mathematics at least flirts with infinity indirectly, and in many cases courts it directly.