The Natural World
It Takes Gall(s) to Make This Ink
The Outside StoryBy Frank KaczmarekWhat do the following items have in common: the Declaration of Independence, Da Vinci’s notebooks, B...
A Woodburning Life
Laurie D. Morrissey
At about 9:00 on an overcast November Saturday, a group gathered at the edge of the Hopkinton/Webster Transfer S...
Japanese Philosophies That’ll Help You Spend Money Consciously
By Rahul Chowdhury
Updated August 9th, 2021
from hulry.com
When you hear the word Japan, what comes to your mind? Tor...
Seville is turning leftover oranges into electricity
Pilot scheme will use methane from fermenting fruit to create clean power for city water plant
Stephen Burgen, published originally ...
Bats Prepare for Winter
The Outside Story
By Susan Shea
Years ago, I visited two Vermont caves in winter to help biologists count hibernating bats. After...
What Drove Homo Erectus Out of Africa?
By Josie Glausiusz
On a searing hot summer day at ‘Ubeidiya, an ancient site in northern Israel, an undulating expanse of dry grasse...
Gentians
The Outside Story
Gentians Provide Fall Color – and Bumblebee Food
By Meghan McCarthy McPhaul
The deep purple caught my ey...
“Homebrew” Psilocybin Created By Scientists Using “Widely Available” Materials
published on IFLScience.com, October 6, 2021
Large quantities of psilocybin – the psychoactive compound in magic mush...
Paying Attention to the Trees
from nbcnews.com, September 21, 2021
Ghost forests creep up U.S. East Coast
New Jersey's Atlantic white cedar forests are turning...
Ralph Waldo Emerson … a True Silverback
Still Ahead of His Time
Born 200 years ago this month, Ralph Waldo Emerson had some strange ideas about the natural world. Recent re...