How Science affects how we live and how we see the world
The blues are migrating through the Azores and I am here clinging to a little boat bobbing in the Atlantic Swells listening to Portuguese chatter from Antares, our spotter, on shore under the volcano on Pico Island in the center of the Azores archipelago. I cannot understand Portuguese but his tone tells volumes as he begins yelling and the words […]
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“It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent upon each other in so complex a manner, have all been […]
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This gorgeous scenery was just missed by Captain Cook back in 1769. Right around the corner, through the Mountains in the center of the photo, is a winding passage into the Tasman sea located between New Zealand and Australia. Cook sailed around New Zealand back in 1769. He missed the entrance which is concealed to all but the closest approach […]
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