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Catch up on all of your fall foliage science with Carl at The Loom. He has all the links you need, even one to his interview on ABC News....
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October 31, 2007
Taxonomy and Nomenclature in World of Warcraft
Category: Animals
In March of this year, to the amusement of my friends, my brother convinced me to start playing World of Warcraft (WoW) with him. Since I left the Baltimore/Washington DC area four years ago, I've only had a few chances...
Posted by Jeremy at 11:20 AM • 15 Comments •
October 29, 2007
A Short History of the Eastern Hemlock I
Category: Ecology
About 16,000 years ago, glaciation from the last ice age finally began to retreat after millennia of occupation. As the glaciers melted and filled scrapes in the landscape with fresh water, the animals and plants followed, once only able to...
Posted by Jeremy at 10:15 AM • 3 Comments •
Another Theory Regarding Fall Foliage
Category: Ecology
This seems to be a more sensible theory regarding leaf color change in autumn: By taking careful stock and laboratory analyses of the autumn foliage of sweetgum and red maple trees along transects from floodplains to ridge-tops in a nature...
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October 24, 2007
Let the Flamewar Begin, Ben Stein
Category: Evolution
Here we go again, folks: Evolution is flawed because it can't tell us where life came from. The cell is too complex to have evolved by itself. Secularists are persecuting scientists who believe in God. Spin. Spin. Spin. Vacuous, vicious...
Posted by Jeremy at 10:55 AM • 6 Comments •
The Interesting History of Isle Royale
Category: Ecology
Island ecology may have been popularized by tropical climes, but it certainly isn't limited to them. Michigan's Isle Royale National Park, a chilly 50 mile by 8 mile island in the corner of Lake Superior an important benchmark in the...
Posted by Jeremy at 9:55 AM • 0 Comments •
October 22, 2007
Old Fuel, Old Pollution, Fond Memories
Category: Ecology
The coal industry has always been a big provider in Western Maryland. Right across the street from my apartment complex is a winding road up the mountain to several active blast sites. There are still old mine tunnels under the...
Posted by Jeremy at 9:36 AM • 0 Comments •
October 20, 2007
Now That's a Concert
Category: Music
Clutch, Fall of Troy and Coheed and Cambria touring together? Can't wait. I haven't seen Clutch in eight years or more....
Posted by Jeremy at 8:30 AM • 2 Comments •
/afk
Category: Ecology
I picked up a couple of shifts catering homecoming this weekend, which is why things have been dead the past couple of days. I did, however, finish a couple of Jack Vance books which I want to discuss next week,...
Posted by Jeremy at 8:03 AM • 2 Comments •
October 16, 2007
Hey, I'm Tryin' to Destroy the Rainforest Here!
Category: Environment
Just read an article about the apparently widespread use of tropical hardwoods in New York City. The numbers are impressive: ...the market for Ipé wood drives much of the industrial logging of the entire Amazon, and has increased dramatically in...
Posted by Jeremy at 10:30 AM • 1 Comments •
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