

Nature of the Job
Biology is the science of life; living is automatic but life is complicated. So complicated that we needed to give the study of it a...


Earthworm Hibernation + You
On a blustery, midwinter day do you ever wonder where the earthworms are? I do. Naturally, winter behaviors vary across species but when...


Camera Allergy
It's the doing of the thing that makes for good work; the sharing of it that makes for good times. Taking photos of a thing can affect...


All Lined Up
The sun took its time on the rise that day. The pilot was saying, "Thirty years I been doing this and I don't think I've ever seen that...


Disorder, be Dammed!
We are humane creatures in a highly modified environment with all the social, physical, and mental lags in adaptions that precipitate...


Pocket Rocks: Lily
My family are rock pickers. Mom's a century farm kid, Stearns County, “the land of rocks & cows" where fields sprout rocks before they...


You're as Rich as You Feel
One month from tonight we will embark on a 20-hour drive from Spokane, WA, to Duluth, MN. I imagine it will be much like a reversion of...


Hummingbirds Never Hop
Hummingbirds only use their legs and feet to perch. It's an ornithological fact. You will never see a hummingbird walk between spots,...