Image credit: Flickr user Colin Purrington (This image created by Axis of Evo is not exactly what this entry is about, but it is an interesting use of a scientific technique to map out religions of the world.) I wasn’t so sure what to expect when I went to the first lecture of the EarthRead More
A friend recently messaged me with a link to this lecture by Richard B. Alley of Penn State. This lecture was part of the American Geophysical Union that took place in December 2009. Aiming to explain the long story of how carbon dioxide might have fit into climate and changes in temperature, Alley explains aRead More
Here are some interesting videos! This first one is about river flow, featuring the Potomac River. Mark Bryer, who is the director of The Nature Conservancy’s Chesapeake Bay program, explains a little bit about how river flow is important for ecology and the wildlife living in the rivers and in the Chesapeake Bay. Taking aRead More
So I am sick, possibly with the flu, and I remembered looking at Google Trends for the flu a while back so I though I’d post about it. Here is a video explaining it: It is interesting to me how they use search terms data to put together these models. It makes me think aboutRead More
Watch the Food Network for a few hours of programming and count up the number of times a healthy eating habit is promoted. You won’t count very high. Even with over 50% of the U.S.’s adult population overweight or obese (Wikipedia citation), healthy food and eating is on the backburner for the Food Network. AsRead More
On October 10th, a beautiful morning even if the slightly overcast sky and the occasional drips of water threatened more rain, I set out for Prospect Park in Brooklyn. I took part in a group hike through the park with the goal of foraging and learning about foraging in this urban parkscape. The group wasRead More