As I had made reference in a previous post to my recent reading of a book that should easily make anyone’s short list of top natural history books for 2009, Jeremy Mynott’s Birdscapes: Birds in Our Imagination and Experience, I thought interested readers might like to know that an ongoing trivia contest pertaning to the […]
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Posts by John E. Riutta, MA, MBA, FLS, MemRES:
Old Litigious Semi Whatsis?
Not too far into the ninth chapter of Jeremy Mynott’s superb new book Birdscapes: Birds in Our Imagination and Experience, I discovered a reference to a bird (one of which I had not previously heard) that may quite possibly be the bearer of the best name I have ever encountered having been applied to any […]
Tales from Nerdvana
There are times when the level of Nerdvana I have achieved startles even me. Take the other day for example. We received a letter from our cable provider, Comcast, informing us that sometime next month they are switching over to an all-digital signal. Because of this, we would be receiving a number of new HD […]
The Golden Key
As luck would have it, I arrived in the city last Friday evening a tad too early for a scheduled gathering at the headquarters of one of my old graduate schools. Not wanting to sit twiddling my thumbs in a lobby before the doors opened, I pointed the Prius down the street to the downtown […]