Apps are great helps for citizen science, but “old school” field notes remain a powerful tool for becoming a competent naturalist.
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By Sheldon Greaves The national upheaval caused by the murder of George Floyd by police officer Derek Chauvin has dominated the headlines for the last few days, and rightly so. You can almost feel a qualitative difference in the anger, … Continue reading
Seventy-five years ago this month an amateur weather-watcher from West Sussex published a landmark paper in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society directly linking the burning of fossil fuels to the warming of the Earth’s atmosphere.
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There are moments when you can feel in your bones that everything is about to change. The ancient Greeks had a word for this particular, special moment: Kairos.
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Any society will have its biases and seams between different segments. Authoritarian leaders in particular make extensive use of divisive rhetoric in order to promote internal conflict that renders a population more amenable to control.
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When I was eleven, my parents gave my brothers and me a puzzle game that totally captivated us. It was called “Soma”.
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The COVID pandemic has become a favorite leverage point for Russian propaganda efforts against the United States. Russia’s strategic objectives require the United States to have a diminished role in world affairs.
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Intertidal ecosystems are one of the more dramatic examples of what biologists call the “edge effect.” This describes what happens when two different kinds of ecosystems come into contact with each other.
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By Sheldon The working lives of Americans–at least the ones who are still working–has been upended with more and more of us working from home. For our family, this is old stuff. Tor the last ten years at least, and … Continue reading
An unelected, hyper-powerful oligarchy now wields vast unimpeachable power, with no accountability or even any expectation or obligation to govern.
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