My recent experiences in the Redwoods further pushed some thinking from readings and observations about the existential threat of today’s humans seemingly irrational drive to attract attention to themselves. The “Look at me!” drive I am starting to name it. This human drive seems in today’s modern cultural mix as strong as that of hunger,…
From my recent adventure in Redwoods National and State Parks, the redwood trees left a huge impression. National Parks published a short piece on the redwoods, and Wikipedia dove into the trees’ origins. Here is a snippet from the Parks’ publication: Exactly why the redwoods grow so tall is a mystery. Theories continue to develop…
Plastics are everywhere, all the time. The list of dangerous chemicals and horrendous outcomes due to plastics cannot be overstated it seems to me. Yet, after 4 (FOUR!) formal discussion meetings on a plastics treaty, world leaders and their industry adovcates are no closer to a treaty. Grist summarized the conference well. “Nothing happened that…
Robert Frost wrote, “He says again, ‘Good fences make good neighbors.’” (Source) I wonder which fences and which neighbors he really meant. In an early post about Mark and Delia Owens’ experience in Botswana, the impact of fences on the wildebeest migrations were mentioned – a horrific consequence killing 10s of thousands of migrating animals….
Stonehenge has more stories and narratives about its purpose than most of us can process, let alone remember. A new finding published in Journal of Archeological Science blew me away. They didn’t focus on the stones’ origins or the religious or political implications, but the acoustics. They built a model and tested sounds. The abstract:…
