Sunday evening. Jumping up and down on the contents of the huge rolling trash bin, trying to make room for a few more bags — of what? Wine bottles, junk-mail catalogs, computer-printouts of drafts of this column, a week’s worth of Boston Globes and the New York Sunday Times.
Articles with 1994
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The Goggle Eye, or Cercyonis pegala • Photo by D. Gordon E. Robertson (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Playing the name game by other rules
Tradition has it that Adam was allowed by the Creator to name all the creatures of the Earth.
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Resurrected bliss, and physics too?
Holey moley! Check out the full-page color ad in the New York Times Book Review two Sundays ago.
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Getting cross with wired
Q. What’s Wired? A. That’s easy. Wired is a hot new magazine for technotrendies.
A hummingbird helps to pollinate a cardinal flower • Photo by Joshua J. Cotten on Unsplash
The colors of the seamless web
My field guide calls the cardinal flower “bright red.” Those simple words inadequately describe the cardinal flower’s electric presence in the ditch. Scarlet? Vermilion? Not enough pizazz.
DDT being sprayed over an Oregon forest in 1955 • USDA Forest Service (Public Domain)
Well, so science isn’t perfect
Two stories from the Science section of Time magazine:
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3 hours of sun means a fine Irish day
It had rained in sheets for 40 days and 40 nights.
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Teaching a sense of wonder
What should sixth graders know about science?
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Just stop a minute and think about it
Sometimes it’s fun to think about things that no one has thought about before.
Detail from “The Old Man in Love” by Lucas Cranach the Elder (ca. 1530)
And now, the dirty-old-man gene
Stop the presses! Scientist makes astounding discovery!