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Deliver me in a black-winged bird: Meeting an eagle
Midnight blue water rested at the horizon under a brightening sky, framing shafts of pine and fir at shore’s edge. It was a July dawn in 1995, and I was visiting Lopez Island, off the coast of Seattle, birdwatching. Bald … Continue reading
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Tagged animism, birding, birds, birdwatching, eagles, meditation
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Tweets from a talk by Susan Solomon
One of our local treasures, Susan Solomon, gave a presentation last night to a standing-room-only crowd at the theater of the Boulder Public Library. Susan is a National Medal of Science winner, and she cochaired the UN Intergovernmental Panel on … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, global warming, IPCC Climate Change 2007 report, science, Susan Solomon
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My first blog carnival: What fun!
My post “String theory for mere mortals” gets a mention at the Scientia Pro Publica blog carnival, hosted by Bob O’Hara on his Deep Thoughts and Silliness blog. Woo-hoo! My first blog carnival. Having just gotten addicted to blogging a … Continue reading
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Tagged blog carnivals, blogging, science
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Pasqueflower’s risky business
Given our whiplash spring weather along the eastern edge of the Rockies, native plants and flowers have had to develop tricks for surviving whatever the clouds dish out. Take the beautiful pasqueflower (Pulsatilla patens ssp. multifida). It’s one of the … Continue reading
Whiplash springs
Here in Boulder, Colorado, we enjoy what might be called whiplash springs–warm, cold, warm, cold. Snow to sixty degrees in less time than it takes to write this post, and back to snow in even less. OK, I exaggerate, but … Continue reading