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Diamond Dust

2 Comments / Weather / February 7, 2022

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Diamond Dust Have you ever found yourself outside on a cold, clear, still day and noticed a snowfall? No clouds above to produce the precipitation; no gusts to blow up fallen snow. If so, you might have experienced a phenomenon known as diamond dust. If you’ve never seen this strange happening, you’re not alone. Diamond […]

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Xiaohaituo Mountain and the Beauty of Snow

1 Comment / Mountains, Weather / February 4, 2022

Xiaohaituo Mountain and the Beauty of Snow The 2022 Olympic Winter Games are underway in Beijing, China. The cold iteration of the Olympics evokes the natural world a bit more to my imagination than the summer version. Mountains, snow, ice, skiing. If you’re familiar with the skyline of Beijing, you know the horizon is not

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Heartstrings of the Galaxy

Leave a Comment / Space / February 2, 2022

Heartstrings of the Galaxy The South African Radio Astronomy Observatory spent three years pointing the MeerKAT radio telescope at the core of our galaxy. The result is a disarming, gorgeous mosaic image of the heart of the Milky Way: MeerKAT image of the Galactic centre region – SARAO Most of the stars in the Milky

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Song of Dunes

Leave a Comment / Science, Deserts / January 28, 2022

Song of Dunes …when travellers are on the move by night, and one of them chances to lag behind or to fall asleep or the like, when he tries to gain his company again he will hear spirits talking, and will suppose them to be his comrades. Sometimes the spirits will call him by name;

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Second Anniversary Issue

1 Comment / Special / January 23, 2022

Second Anniversary Issue The mountains are out there, will you answer the call?There are things to explore from the big to the small. The mountains are ringing, will you answer the call?I promise there’s magic for one and for all! We climb to the peaks of the crags, of course,To feel the fury of

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Spruce Knob – West Virginia’s High Point

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized, Mountains, High Points / January 21, 2022

Spruce Knob – West Virginia’s High Point If the state of West Virginia had not presciently decided to move away from the wickedness of slavery during the Civil War, its High Point would be about 250 miles south-southwest at Mount Rogers, near the Virginia tripoint with North Carolina and Tennessee. Instead, the good citizens

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Thank You for Being a Friend

Leave a Comment / Woman Crush Wednesday / January 19, 2022

Thank You for Being a Friend One of the enduring modern jokes revolves around the continued existence of Keith Richards, the enigmatic and hard-living guitarist of the Rolling Stones. The dude looks like he’s 125 years old, thanks to a lifetime of drugs and rock music. Yet he soldiers on, seemingly an eternal. Believe it

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Draco

1 Comment / Critters / January 12, 2022

Draco If you’re a fantasy-phile, you’ve probably encountered the word draco many times. Latin for dragon, it gives us Dracula and drakes and, I’m told, a character from Harry Potter, amongst many others. In our previous exploration, we discovered a monkey that “flies.” Unfortunately, today, I do not have evidence to present you regarding the existence of dragons.

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NORAD

Leave a Comment / Technology / December 22, 2021

NORAD In December 1948, in the interregnum between the end of World War II and the raging depths of the Cold War, the U.S. Air Force provided a bit of levity in the face of growing nuclear tensions. They pushed a notification that their “early warning radar net to the north” had picked up a

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The Wandering Meatloaf

Leave a Comment / Critters / December 17, 2021

The Wandering Meatloaf Chitons are a class of mollusks specific to the oceans of the planet. Unlike some mollusks with which you might be familiar, chitons appear more like blobby flapjacks than the normal shell topographies of a clam or a snail. When a snail feels threatened she can dive into her hard home; when

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