There’s nothing like a little David Attenborough to remind you of just how awesome this planet – and your Linnaean class – really is. (I’m watching Life of Mammals and made it through only the first episode before being inspired to write this post. I am utterly lacking in willpower and discrimination.) Mammals as a [...]
Archive for the ‘Biology/Ecology’ Category
2 May
Signs of Spring…
When I lived next to the Chesapeake Bay, there came a point in April where there was no going back; there may be chilly days and plenty of rain, but you could rest assured knowing that snow was another seven months away and your gardens wouldn’t succumb to a freezing night. Where I live now, [...]
30 Apr
Amazing Timescapes Film by Tom Lowe
This video short is a piece created by award-winning Tom Lowe and I thought it was so powerful I wanted to share it with you all. It’s comprised of beautiful time-lapse footage and an equally as beautiful soundtrack, looking at both the American Southwest and some of the people in it. It’s not completed yet, [...]
27 Apr
Extinction and Heartbreak
Today a woman came into the nature center and, after perusing for a good while, came over to the desk to speak to me about a recent trip she’d taken to the Field Museum in Chicago, which is both a natural history and cultural history museum. (I now have a reason to go to Chicago [...]
19 Jan
Midwinter Eagle Count!
Here’s what I’m doing today. What are YOU doing today? :) Happy Wednesday!
23 Dec
Volcano lightning! (Coolest phrase EVER)
This may be old news but I refound these photos on NatGeo and wanted to link you. When Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull volcano erupted, photographers caught this amazing lightning that formed in the cloud of ash. Click on the photo for a few others (but this one is definitely the coolest!). Anyone got a phonetic pronunciation of that [...]
17 Nov
“Grossest Creatures” Photoset
My best friend sent me a link to this because she – obviously – knows me very, very well. It’s from a couple of years ago on Popular Science, and while some of these critters don’t really fit into the “gross” category for me, they are definitely all interesting and worthy of at least a [...]
3 Nov
Deciduous vs. Coniferous
Have you ever wondered why some trees have leaves while others have “needles”? Well, me neither, but I found the answer in a righteously awesome book, conveniently called The Nature Handbook, and wanted to share it with you fine folks. Now, being a naturalist, I was a little ashamed that I’d never really stopped to [...]
