The Fish Doorbell Humanity possesses the impressive ability to mold natural elements to make our lives better. We can manipulate waterways, drive through mountains, and harness invisible forces to generate power. Today, scientists and engineers understand well how these projects might affect other species. But before we had a nuanced, non-ignorant view of the interconnectedness
Volcán Tajumulco – Guatemala and Central America’s High Point Despite its proximity to sea level – nowhere in the region lies more than 125 miles from an ocean – Central America contains some serious elevation. The American Cordillera forms a nearly continuous backbone from South America’s continental toes in Patagonia to the tippy pate of Alaska’s coast along
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The History of Eclipse Photography Here lie the bodies of Ho and HiWhose fate though sad was visible,Being hanged because they could not spyTh’eclipse which was invisible. Heigh ho! ’tis said, that being drunkThus brought them into trouble,But surely this is incorrect,As drunken folks see double! —Book of Documents Since the dawn of the Solar System,
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Ambience Antarctica Ice contains no future, just the past, sealed away. As if they’re alive, everything in the world is sealed up inside, clear and distinct. Ice can preserve all kinds of things that way – cleanly, clearly. That’s the essence of ice, the role it plays. –Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman I was greeted
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Moonglade Kuun silta kromikeltainen käy ylle kylmäin vesienja jäisten kaislarantain.Sen sillan ääriä ei näy.Yön tyhjyyteen sen holvi käy mun uniani kantain. –Aaro Hellaakoski, “Erojaiset” Moonglade is a nearly perfect poetic word. It rolls off the tongue melodically and marries two vivid images, conjuring a magical amalgamation. The English word “glade” today refers to “an open passage
Snapping Night Suns I’ve written multiple times about my love of fireflies. I find them so wonderful that I anointed them with the over-the-top nickname of “Suns of the Terrestral Night.” I called the late-spring, early-summer period when bearable humidity overlaps with lengthy daylight and the appearance of nature’s bioluminescent beetles as “The Best Time of
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The Race That Eats Its Young In April 1968, James Earl Ray assassinated Martin Luther King, Jr., in Memphis. After a two-month stint on the run across the United States, Canada, and England, authorities apprehended Ray in London as he attempted to flee to Africa. Back in the USA, Ray landed in Tennessee’s Brushy Mountain
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The Queen of Cocodona In 1896, the organizers of the first Modern Olympiad decided to honor a run that an ancient Greek courier named Pheidippides (maybe) made after the Battle of Marathon in 490 BCE. The newly coined “marathon” featured a distance that roughly mirrored the stretch from Marathon to Athens, around 25 miles (today, a
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Marathon Rejoice, we conquer! — Pheidippides, Robert Browning One of the most ubiquitous automobile decals is a simple outlined oval with the number 26.2 emblazoned within it. It means, depending on one’s viewpoint, that the driver is crazy, impressive, smug, masochistic, or some mixture of all four. The sticker signals the car’s owner ran 26.2 miles, otherwise known