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Cicadas, oh, my!
Imagine a hundred maracas shaken at once. If they were buzzing as well, and if they reached a hundred decibels or more, you’d have the marvelous sound of the cicadas.
Connecting with a cottonwood
It’s a treat to return in August to Prescott, Arizona, with its annual din of cicadas. Today, as I approach the corridor of trees lining summer-dry Granite Creek, the chorus of insects in the treetops is boisterous. Eagerly I slip … Continue reading
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What every student should know about the environment
How do we educate for emergency? Millions of students are headed back to school this week. My teaching starts too; I am en route to Arizona for the opening colloquium of the semester in a low-residency program, sitting in a … Continue reading
“Necessity is the mother of invention” for clever rooks
The tale is an old one: a thirsty raven drops stones into a pitcher to raise the water level so she can drink. The story was told by Pliny the Elder, a naturalist in the Roman Empire of the first … Continue reading
Animism in the academy
The conference ended a couple of days ago, and I’m off in a few minutes to catch a train for a day trip to an open-air museum in another part of Holland, but I want to catch up the conference … Continue reading