Let’s face it, the unemployment rate is heading upward, banks are failing, the outgoing U.S. administration is hell-bent on slashing every environmental protection law it can find as it rides out of town, and the stock market average is reenacting its own version of Jules Verne’s Journey to the Center of the Earth. It’s enough […]
Born Again Bird Watcher Archive
The archive of posts from the original Born Again Bird Watcher blog.
Instant Karma
Yesterday I posted a short form version of one of my usual rants about the need for intellectual and emotional parity for the life sciences in relation to the astronomical ones; therefor the karmic balance of the universe dictates that whom should I be staffing the booth adjacent to at the National Science Teachers Association […]
Look Down, Not Up
On November 14th, NASA launched the Space Shuttle Endeavour for a flight to the international space station in order to bring parts for remodeling the living area of that orbiting outpost. As a boy, I was fascinated by the prospect of such futuristic projects as the space station. I would pour through Omni magazine hatching […]
Hitting the Bottom
A dear and long-time friend called this morning wanting to know a good spot to watch birds up in our neck of the proverbial woods. Having been keen to get in a little time on the local bottomland between trade shows, I was more than happy to oblige in not only telling my friend where […]