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October 31, 2007

I Love This Stuff

Category: Ecology

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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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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....

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/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,...

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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...

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