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NO BRAINER: HOW APHANTASIA IS LIKE ATHEISM
Maybe twenty years ago I was writing about the strangeness of finding myself labelled an ‘atheist’. To begin with, I was argued that...
Dec 23, 20245 min read
NEW IN PERU
A team of researchers from Conservation International conducted a survey in the heart of Peru during the summer of 2022. Their rapid...
Nov 3, 20241 min read
SALMON RUN
The Quinsam River, just outside Campbell River on Vancouver Island, has just seen the highest pink salmon return in a decade . And this...
Oct 15, 20243 min read
NOT SO FAST
According to the IUCN Red List , more than 45,000 species on Earth are currently threatened with extinction. Particularly threatened are...
Aug 13, 20244 min read
COMPLEX FIRE
In 2020 a massive wildfire, known as the CZU Lightening Complex Fire , broke out in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Initially, several small...
Aug 10, 20245 min read
A CORAL PREDICT-AMENT
You’ve heard about the devastations to the world’s reef ecosystems. Most notably, the Great Barrier Reef off Australia’s east coast saw...
Aug 16, 20236 min read
“THIS IS HOW IT IS”
I imagine that it is as true for you as it is me that almost everything I thought I understood from prior education turned out to be far...
May 26, 20234 min read
GIANT SADISTIC MURDER-DOLPHINS
The killer whale is the largest known species of dolphin. This exposes its common name as a rather silly one. ( Silly, just like so many...
Jan 8, 20236 min read
HOW ARE SEA STARS DOING?
You may have heard something about the Sea Star Wasting Disease (SSWD) epidemic that came to the Pacific coast of North America in 2013....
May 12, 20224 min read
WHY YOU TRANSMIT
Twenty-nine months into this pandemic I'm still running into folks who think that being immunized means they're immune to infection and...