Dr. Doolittle would approve…
…of iPads for apes.
Continue reading →Category Archives: Nature
Once in a super moon
Did you see the supermoon last night? I was driving my car right around the time the moon rose, and I saw it without having read anything about the phenomenon beforehand. So I didn’t know what I was seeing, but … Continue reading →
The solstice is here!
The winter solstice comes late tonight and I, for one, am cheering. It may not be a holiday exactly, but winter holidays cluster around it for a very good reason: the beginning of the end of the dark days. Who … Continue reading →
Photoshop is not for the birds
Quite a few people in the comments section on the thread with the gull riding on the eagle’s back thought the image was photoshopped. That was my first thought, too, but I don’t think it’s correct. Here’s the image again; … Continue reading →
Is this some sort of metaphor?
Whatever it is, it’s quite a photo: I know it’s not a bald eagle, but close enough. And that’s a gull attacking it, or piggybacking on its head.
Continue reading →Irene hits North Carolina
And is downgraded to Category 1. It’s still a humungous storm in terms of size, though. How is everybody doing so far? It’s not expected to hit New England till some time tomorrow, so all I see are some clouds.
Continue reading →Hurricane Irene’s ominous approach
Hurricane Irene is being hyped as the storm of the century. And perhaps it will be, at least in scope; it is due to hit the entire Eastern seaboard from North Carolina on up. That includes me, of course, although … Continue reading →
The Incredible Journey
A mountain lion traveled from South Dakota to New Haven, a distance of 2000 miles: Biologists estimate the size of the mountain lion population at about 100,000 in North America, mostly living in western regions and seldom traveling more than … Continue reading →
Let’s talk about the weather
There’s an old New England joke that we’ve got two seasons here: winter and the Fourth of July. But not this year. This year, folks, we’ve got a real summer, one that would do any place proud. It’s been sunny … Continue reading →
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio…
…than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Continue reading →Humans on the planet
Erle C. Ellis, associate professor of geography and environmental systems at the University of Maryland, writes that we’re fully in the Anthropocene, a proposed term to describe an era in which the environment has been heavily influenced by humankind: Earth’s … Continue reading →
Tornado in Springfield, MA
No part of the US is immune to tornadoes, although the well-known “Tornado Alley” in the midwest has by far the largest number in this country and the world. But New England has some, too, and yesterday Springfield, Massachusetts—a large … Continue reading →