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A journal of science, thought, and action.

Feb

2019

Love Is In The Air

Natural reminders for Valentine's Day.

Feb

2019

Opportunity Signs Off

A voyage of exploration concludes.

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Archive Highlights

A Million Taxis

You ever sit in a giant traffic jam, alone, in freeway that has become a parking lot, boxed in by cars flatulating noxious fumes, your only...

5 Apr 2013

Video Highlights

River Deltas...here & there

River deltas result when materials are moved from uplands to lowlands. They happen wherever liquids flow.

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No More Frozen Ponds, No More Hockey

It's not just glaciers: the NHL frets about the melting ice.

3882

How Can People Be Skeptical About Facts?

Let me ask you about our planet. Think about the whole planet, now, from Boulder to Bangladesh, not just your little corner of it.

3502

Twitter As A Scientific Resource

Examining Twitter's potential as a scientific source

2187

Iceberg Collapses -- Woman Shrieks in Fear

Watch this terrifying footage of an iceberg collapsing off Newfoundland.

2977

Buckled Lands

Afghanistan's Sulaiman Ranges are one of the most buckled landscapes on Earth.

3358

Do You Ever Feel Trapped?

"Nature is a movie that goes by outside the car window."

3317

Skylight Auroras

Imagine rooms with auroras as skylights overhead...sounds beautiful!

2837

How You Can Be Like Elsa From 'Frozen'

Why did no one tell me this was possible? I want to freak people out with this.

2693

6th Grade Ecologist

A science project offered insight into the adaptive potential, and ecosystem threat, of an invasive species. The ecologist was 12 years old.

4574

'Yes, But It's a Dry Heat'

Maybe that's a better phrase for climate change: The Heat.

2690

Gondwana Beauty

Gondwanaland produced some really plant beauties that are still flowering nearly 80 million years later.

10760

California Turns Brown

California's drought takes on a different dimension from two new NASA photographs.

3127

Mapping Mars

Planning a trip to Mars? You'll need some good maps to go hiking.

2963

Sailing the Wine Dark Seas

Homer tells about Odysseus and his ten year journey to find his home after the Trojan War. Odysseus could have used some better maps.

4426

Rescue Beetles

It's easy to miss a plague of green while being amazed by canyon walls and class 5 rapids on the Colorado River.

6417

Dwarf Star Remnants

A dwarf star exploded in a supernova in 1006 AD that is still visible today.

3186

Germaine Greer: "I've now become a doer"

The author has said she "is now a doer" and set off on a second career in rainforest restoration.

8393

Real Warriors Wear Plants

The Greeks are well known for many things---art, philosophy, science---but their battlefield technology was equally well developed.

3710

WildLeaks

Trafficking in endangered wildlife is now the 4th largest transnational crime in the worldAn online whistle-blower is now available to expose the 'bad guys'.