There's been some talk lately about the need to upgrade our power grid. How complicated is our power grid? Consider this quote from "Upgrading the Grid," from the July 31, 2008 edition of Nature (available online only to subscribers): The power flowing through the stadium lights cannot actually be traced…
If you want to take a couple minutes to be dazzled with stunning photography, check out these photos at Euphoria Magazine.
I'm still in Oregon attending a conference. Today, at about 3 pm, I decided to visit the Portland Japanese Garden. It was an incredible, magical place. All you need to do is aim your camera in a random direction and a beautiful photo would result. That's what happened over and…
I took a two-day trip to Assateague Island recently. For those of you that don't know, wild horses live on the island. Once a year they are rounded up and the yearlings are auctioned off to raise money for the nature preserve there and to keep their numbers in check.…
Neil Shubin recently published a book celebrating the discovery of a life form that clearly constitutes a transitional life form: tiktaalik, a fish that crawled out of the water by use of its rudimentary limbs. In a post in which I described Shubin's book (Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into…