(Extinct) grizzlies, maybe-extinct aliens (or us?), prairie plants and pollinators, pollinator (and other insect) poetry, and a bit of balance.
Cloak and dagger natural history in California
When Johnson and Grinnell returned to Boothâs shop to follow up, they found Booth with a cleaned skull, which he promised to hand over when the job was done. But Grinnell recognized that the specimen was the skull of a polar bear. Grinnell kept quietâhe worried that confronting Booth would only diminish his chances of ever getting the real grizzly skull. Later Booth told Grinnell that if he wanted the skull (the polar bear skull that he was falsely presenting as a grizzly skull), he would have to bid against Grinnellâs good friend Frank S. Daggett at the Los Angeles County Museum of History, Science and Art.
ET may not be as nice as the creature in the movie
Possibility 5) Thereâs only one instance of higher-intelligent lifeâa âsuperpredatorâ civilization (like humans are here on Earth)âwho is far more advanced than everyone else and keeps it that way by exterminating any intelligent civilization once they get past a certain level. This would suck.
You’ll probably spend the rest of your afternoon on this site.
Museums across Canada protect and preserve collections of plants and insects along with their collection data. These data are used to help scientists determine habitat preferences, and changes in speciesâ distribution and abundance over time. These specimens are therefore used to determine whether a species is in danger of becoming extinct! The gallery pages for each species will allow you to see actual Museum research specimens and photographs of the organisms in a natural setting.
Now he is taking on insects in poetry as third co-editor of a new eBook called The American Entomologist Poetâs Guide to the Order of Insects, which includes about 90 poems that date from the seventeenth century up to the present, with at least one poem for each insect order. Contributors include three U.S. Poets Laureate (W. S. Merwin, Kay Ryan, and Ted Kooser), and luminaries such as John Keats, Emily Dickinson, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Walt Whitman, Carl Sandburg, Robert Burns, William Wordsworth, Jonathan Swift, John Donne, and many others.
There is a blending of work and life that woos us with its promise of barbecues at work and daytime team celebrations at movie theaters, but weâre paying for it in another way: a complete eradication of the line between home life and work life. âLove what you do,â we say. âGet a job you donât want to take a vacation from,â we sayâand we sit back and watch the retweets stream in.
I donât like it.
One night, late in the summer of 2012, discussion at my dinner table turned to the venerable topic of What to Be When You Grow Up. My older son, Griffin, then nine years old, wanted to be an âunderwater paleontologist.â His little brother, Huck, then seven, wanted to be a monkey.
âDo you know what I do for a living?â I asked Huck.
His eyes grew wide. âAll you do is sit on your computer and say, âBlah blah blah Congress, blah blah blah Mitt Romneyâ!â