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by brian & jake
20 July, 11:43 PM
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I started my new job today. This was immediately (and I do mean immediately — maybe even simultaneously) preceded by turning in a draft of my thesis. Phew. It’s been a crazy couple of weeks.
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There really is a summer this year. It’s finally been warmer and I’ve gotten the obligatory first sunburn. (Say what you will about skin cancer – my self esteem is way higher when I am wearing a nice summer bronze.)...
Filed under Food, Outdoors and tagged with birds, chickens, eating, food, garden, gardening, photos, summer, vegetables, wildlife.
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6 April, 03:19 PM
It’s Spring. It gets rainy. It gets warm. Amphibians live for this stuff. (And reptiles are soon to follow.)
I heard a bit on NPR this morning about people in Vermont helping salamanders cross roads during mating season. I looked it up online, and it’s happening in a lot of places. Here are some links.
Volunteers Help Salamanders Avoid Rodeway Massacre
I love the title of this one from the Filed under Outdoors and tagged with animals,
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15 January, 01:17 PM
It may be sad, but this gets me interested in our economic troubles more than stock market numbers and finger pointing. It’s quite cute, and creative.
Zoos matter, yes. If people (especially children) aren’t introduced to nature up close and personal, they will never develop the kind of ethic that creates the demand for conservation.
I thank the Mystic Aquarium for...
Filed under News, Science and tagged with animals, endangered species, wildlife, zoos.
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