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Category Archives: Nature
3.29.2013
My Fascinating Backyard: Spiny Backed Orb Weaver Spider + Spider Myths
Photo taken by Mkullen The other day I almost walked into a spider web that contained a spider that looked bizarre and like nothing else I’ve ever seen. Its back is white with face-like black markings and it has 6 / read more…
Posted in Cool Stuff / Education / Nature / Science / Urban Legends
Tagged in camel spider / myths / Orb Weaver
3.27.2013
4 out of 5 Fruit Flies Recommend Organic Fruit
Since the Stanford meta-analysis indicated that there is no nutritional difference between organic and conventionally grown produce. There has been a avalanche of mediocre and poor scientific papers trying to prove otherwise. These papers have a recurring theme, hormesis. My definition hormesis=plant homeopathy. / read more…
3.26.2013
Forrest Fenn’s Buried Treasure
An elderly millionaire, a heroic collector to his admirers and a compulsive looter to his detractors, beset by intimations of mortality and contemplating the return of his body to the soil he has spent his life sifting through, assembles a / read more…
Posted in Nature / Uncategorized / Urban Legends
Tagged in Forrest Fenn / Santa Fe / treasure
3.13.2013
Bee Venom and HIV are we getting stung again?
Bee venom therapy is an alternative medical treatment. Like many alternative treatments it has little plausibility, poor research, and primarily anecdotal evidence. Benefit appears in research only when controls are poor. In well blinded and controlled studies the “effects” disappear. Bee therapy / read more…
Posted in Alternative Medicine / Health / Nature / Pseudoscience
3.8.2013
Powers of Ten
I believe my co-workers and I have been passing an awful cold around lately. It’s my turn, now, so please pardon my brevity.
3.5.2013
On Knowing the Names of Things
Jared Diamond, in Guns, Germs, and Steel, relates the time he was traveling with Foré tribesmen in the New Guinean highlands and a rival tribe blocked off their route, trapping them in the jungle without food. One of the party left / read more…
Posted in Cool Stuff / Education / Nature
3.2.2013
The Atmosphere Is Not A Water Vapor Hotel
Most of us have probably experienced a warm, humid day in the summer. I imagine some of us in the northern hemisphere are right now wishing for one of those days; a day with the air thick where the sweat / read more…
Posted in Education / Nature / Science
Tagged in air as a sponge / atmospheric science / Dalton's Law / dew point / humidity / Ideal Gas Law / meteorology / relative humidity / saturation / vapor pressure / water vapor / weather
3.2.2013
My Fascinating Back Yard: Dragonflies
As scared as I am of creepy-crawlies, I have always been simultaneously fascinated by them. The creepier they look the more I want to look at them. Now, I don’t go as far as touching them with my bare hands, / read more…
2.27.2013
The Reintroduction of Wolves
There is still one corner of New Mexico where, if you are so inclined, you may fall asleep at night with a chance to hear wolves howling in the distance: the Gila National Forest, near Silver City, where less than / read more…
Posted in Nature / Science / Uncategorized
Tagged in livestock / New Mexico / wolf / wolves / Yellowstone
2.27.2013
Organic Nutrition Controversy Redux
Organic farming proponents have been in a little bit of a tailspin since Stanford published a review demonstrating no nutritional difference between organic and conventionally grown produce. This has generated some of the most passionate and amusing rhetoric about dietary pseudoscience that I have ever / read more…
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