A superorganism’s fuzzy boundaries: the breathing termite mounds of southern Africa raise the question, Where does “animate” end and “inanimate”…
Category: Natural History
BELIZE – ecotourism – Brief Article
BELIZE IS A COUNTRY WHERE A PRISTINE ENVIRONMENT greets visitors from around the globe, where living …
Land Of The Walking Marriage
Lu Yuan
For the Mosuo of China, it’s a woman’s world.
There are so many skillful people, but no…
Piedmont Perspective – Piedmont Plateau of the Appalachian Region; includes notes on wetland and dry forest flora – Brief Article
Robert H…
Smells like home – how wasp Polistes sulcifer adopts odors – Brief Article
T.J. Kelleher
SMELLS LIKE HOME Fish and houseguests supp…
Rhymes with June and Spoon: how well do you really know the moon? – Celestial Events – Brief Article
Richard Panek
There’s a moon i…
A Tale of Two Reputations – scientific contributions of Charles Darwin and Sigmund Freud
Jared Diamond
Why we revere Darwin and giv…
A Natural History of Time
Laurence A. Marschall
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A Natural History of Time by Pascal Richet, translate…
Capturing the Center – Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier’s scientific contributions
Stephen Jay Gould
This is the second part of a two-part…
Mammoth Prospecting – researchers on Wrangell Island research the possibility of viruses causing mammal extinction – Brief Article
Clare F…