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…
After flying cross country 2 times in the last month, a Daily Stoic post hit my inbox the day I returned. Perfect timing. I traveled over 500k miles on airplanes over the last 20 years, and find airplane travel way stressful … still. The situations are so out of a person’s control that it drives…
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:…
A recent publication from SyFy builds on research published at the American Physical Society (APS). The reachers’ main point is that bees and flowers communicate electronically. Here is the published summary / abstract from the APS: Electricity is everywhere and is essential to the functioning of life. Understanding how organisms organise themselves using the natural…
