Nature
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Get Into the Great Wide Open
Happy (belated) anniversary! On March 1, 1872, President Grant signed a bill creating America’s first national park. Yellowstone was the…
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The Flood
This past weekend the Ohio river at Cincinnati experienced the worst flood in 20 years, cresting about 60.5’ Sunday afternoon.…
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How I Became the Leader of a Multi-Level Bird Feeding Scheme
A year ago I moved into a townhouse in Chicago with a tiny front yard. I put up a bird…
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The Quest for the Snowy Owl
Snowy owls are one of the great birds of North America. If you’re Canadian, you are probably lucky enough to…
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Visit the Glorious Trappist-1 System
Did you tune in for NASA’s big press conference today? Get excited, it’s a habitable-zone planet! Three of them, to…
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Aquaria on the Cheap
This article originally ran on my (now semi-defunct) aquarium blog, but it’s good information if you want to try setting…
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Must. Have. Morels.
I’ve spent a lot of time in my life trudging through underbrush. Getting poison ivy, countless scratches, bug bites, and…
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