Idaho Harvester

Last week, we learned about extracting raw mineral ore. This week, we’ll learn about the process of milling, which is the first of two steps required to take raw mineral ore and turn it into a usable product (the second of which is smelting, which we’ll explore next week!) [Read More]

For this Flowery Friday we were flipping through L. Bruggeman’s Tropical Plants and Their Cultivation. There were so many beautiful plates of flowers to choose, but Hymenocallis littoralis kept catching our attention. [Read More]

Rush week at Beta Theta Pi house [02] [Read More]

Happy #TroutTuesday! The Idaho state fish is the Cutthroat trout and there’s still plenty of season left to hit the water and catch some BIG fish! [Read More]

Last week, we learned about the dangers posed to an underground metal miner. This week, we’ll focus on the process of mineral extraction, which is what mining is all about! Extracting raw materials from the Earth supports much of our economic and social infrastructure (smartphones, for example, are made of... [Read More]

It turns out that August 19th is National Aviation Day, but also National Photography Day. Rather than celebrate these individually, we thought we would combine the two and celebrate National Aviation Photography Day. How do you do this, you may ask? Aerial Photographs!!! [Read More]

These captivating Flowery Friday orchids are from Erich Nelson, Book of Plates of the Genus Orchis. Erich Nelson was a German artist, designer, and botanist. His illustrations have a insurmountable amount of detail which contributed greatly to the understanding of orchids. Throughout his life he completed several volumes of illustrations.1... [Read More]

Sorority rush [3] [Read More]

Today is #PotatoPoTuesday and we have the back of a potato postcard from the 1980s: “The Idaho Potato is featured on the menus of the swankiest supper clubs of the land, yet it is the favored and most thrifty food of the modest. Idaho now devotes 242,500 acres to produce... [Read More]