TweetI promise: someday I’ll stop with the sarcastic post titles. But today is not that day. It’s just that I get so frustrated with our national case of germophobia. We’ve put antibiotics into sponges, soaps, clothing, cosmetics, toys, and our bodies, even when the threat isn’t from a bacterial pathogen. So, in the spirit of [...]
Tweet In belated honor of Valentine’s Day, we’re going to go ahead and answer the age-old jazz question: “How much do I love you? I’ll tell you no lie; How deep is the ocean? How high is the sky?” Well I’m glad she asked. Turns out, the ocean is pretty darn deep. That’s a whole [...]
TweetWe recently had some heavy rain, and the wooded path behind my house showed sinuous trails where the water carved its way between the leaves. Thankfully, this path is not normally a river bed, but water is a powerful if fleeting force of nature. All that water ran down the path, into the stream, and [...]
TweetLots of good infographics to be found across the web, intending to explain complex issues bite-sized visual chunks. We start with “Global Warming Skeptics vs The Scientific Consensus” from the Information is Beautiful blog. Despite the clear agenda by the designer, it does a nice job of introducing the various debates surrounding man’s impact on [...]
TweetIn a rare bit of ecological good-news, a study published by the US Geological Survey found that even though population of the US has increased 30% since 1980, our water consumption decreased by 5%! That’s not even a per capita number, it’s an overall reduction due to conservation. Take a look: I took the liberty [...]
