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Leave a Comment / Woman Crush Wednesday / March 9, 2022

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Keep On Your Quest “I was stamped as a weak child.” On 22 September 1939, Junko Tabei docked planet Earth at Miharu in Japan. The adults in her life considered her “frail. ” As an adult, she grew to the unimposing height of 4’9″. Yet at the age of 10, she ascended two mountains in […]

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The Peace of Wild Things//Mallard Musings

Leave a Comment / Critters, Pondering / March 7, 2022

The Peace of Wild Things//Mallard Musings A friend recently posted the following poem by Wendell Berry on social media. It hit me in the right spot. The Peace of Wild Things When despair for the world grows in meand I wake in the night at the least soundin fear of what my life and

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Crimea

Leave a Comment / Geography / March 4, 2022

Crimea Few spots on our blue marble have demonstrated a more important geographical significance than Crimea. Recently in the world consciousness again due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Crimean Peninsula sits at the confluence of waters, continents, and, seemingly, history. Across the ages, countless nations and peoples have called Crimea home and fought

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Hoverla – Ukraine’s High Point

Leave a Comment / Mountains / March 2, 2022

Hoverla – Ukraine’s High Point Ukraine is the second-largest country in Europe. For American audiences, the nation is just smaller than the state of Texas. The country in Eastern Europe is not renowned for its mountains, but a region that big is bound to have some interesting topography. The continent’s third-longest mountain chain – the

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Hank the Tank

Leave a Comment / Critters / February 25, 2022

Hank the Tank Many people who live near Lake Tahoe currently fear an active burglar. This hooligan does not target money, vehicles, jewelry, artwork, or any other valuables one might associate with the Lake Tahoe clientele. The locals have imparted an apt nickname for the thief. But, despite eluding the big net of authorities many

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The Presidential Range

Leave a Comment / Mountains / February 21, 2022

The Presidential Range [note: for an interactive, whimsical map depicting the Presidential Range, point your browser here] The Appalachian Mountains stretch approximately 1,500 miles from Alabama into Canada. Along that varied distance, geologists carve them into subranges, amongst which are the White Mountains. This range covers a large portion of New Hampshire and

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The Squirting Cucumber

Leave a Comment / Plants / February 18, 2022

The Squirting Cucumber We’ll journey today into the plant world. And I know I will need to ask a few of you to remove your minds from the gutter. Ecballium elaterium is the lone species of its genus and a member of the gourd family. Native to Europe, northern Africa, and parts of Asia, this

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The Chaulmoogra Wizard

Leave a Comment / Woman Crush Wednesday, Science / February 16, 2022

The Chaulmoogra Wizard On 24 July 1892, in Seattle, Alice Augusta Ball arrived on planet Earth. The daughter and granddaughter of photographers, the Ball family probably never imagined Alice might one day develop into a world-renowned chemist, though their usage of photographic chemicals might have captured her attention. At the age of 11, the Ball family

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Levitate a Frog

Leave a Comment / Science, Critters / February 14, 2022

Levitate a Frog Go to your refrigerator and grab a magnet. Now try to stick it to your body. Of course, the magnet falls to the ground because our bodies are not magnetic. Right? Colloquially, yes. Technically, the answer is more complex (though you obviously still won’t find magnetism in your vaccines; I can’t

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Light Pillars, 22° Halos, Tangent Arcs, Bottlinger’s rings, Parry Arcs, and Circumzenithal Arcs

Leave a Comment / Weather / February 11, 2022

Light Pillars, 22° Halos, Tangent Arcs, Bottlinger’s rings, Parry Arcs, and Circumzenithal Arcs, and More! In our two previous articles, we discovered diamond dust and sun dogs. While these phenomena are righteous on their own, they are singular manifestations of a larger class of optical splendors. They both arise thanks to ice crystals in the

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