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Worm Power
You may have heard the term vermicomposting in which a box of worms will eat through kitchen garbage and theirs castings create a liquid fertilizer that feeds soil that will help your plants grow. So, let’s kick that up a … Continue reading
The Somali Sengi
It dashes among boulders on hind-limbs built more for gazelles than small mammals. It mates for life, sharing a small territory with its chosen beau. It is related to aardvarks, elephants and manatees but is only a few inches in … Continue reading
Japanese Puffer Fish
“In 1995, divers noticed a beautiful, strange circular pattern on the seafloor off Japan, and soon after, more circles were discovered nearby.” So starts the LiveScience article about the Japanese Pufferfish. These tiny fish make remarkable constructions on the sea … Continue reading
Play City—Munich
Spielstadt or “Mini-Munich” is a fully functioning city developed by artists and educators, with businesses and public facilities, a theater, university, town hall, garbage disposal and much more and made especially for students between the ages of 7 and 15. … Continue reading
Fisherman Finds Message in a Bottle
In April 2019, third graders at Greensboro Day School in North Carolina were given the assignment to write messages and put them in bottles. It was part of their “Pirate Day” celebrations. Vivian Byerly’s note included a note that said, … Continue reading
Living Bridges
High in the northeastern corner of India, in the State of Meghalaya, are living bridges made from the roots of rubber fig trees. They are an amazing example of man-made, but wholly natural architecture and engineering. Continue reading
Bubble Pollination
With the devastating decline in bee populations, farmers worldwide have worried about how to pollinate their crops in the future. The news today tells of a scientist, Eijiro Miyako, at Japan’s Advanced Institute of Science and Technology who has come … Continue reading
An Entomologists Dream
If you’re looking for something that looks really weird, we’ve found the perfect site. The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County has an online exhibition they call Spiky, Hairy, Shiny: Insects of L.A. Every city has its share of … Continue reading
Fuzzy Green Blobs
You might think that the surface of a glacier is just ice. You would be wrong. Glacier ice is teeming with mysterious life forms. One of the more unusual kinds scattered across the Root Glacier in Iceland are some strange … Continue reading
More goats?
What is it with goats escaping? On the heels of the story of goats roaming the streets of a Welsh town during shelter-in-place restrictions, we now have a story of 200 or so goats breaking through a fence and charging … Continue reading
