Casey Stengl (right) and her partner Lorraine Wyer in the Stengl Lost Pines wildflower meadow. Photos: Courtesy of the College of Natural Sciences On 581 acres near Smithville sits The University of Texas at Austin’s Stengl Lost Pines Biological Station. This heavenly...
In 1980, Microsoft was a scrappy little company with about 40 employees known mostly for producing computer languages like BASIC and FORTRAN. Annual revenues were just a few million dollars a year. That changed when they got a call from global computer giant IBM....