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Nature, Natural History and How they Educate Us

Thursday, December 31, 2020

Green Eggs and Zipf's Law

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 In the 1930s and 40s American linguist, George Kingsley Zipf wrote about a pattern found in written texts.  Now known as Zipf's Law, th...
Tuesday, July 14, 2020

A Very Brief History of Earth and its Water

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This story begins about 4.5 billion years ago.  Things were pretty boring in our solar system for a while.  Space dust had been floating aro...
Friday, May 22, 2020

Why Are Planetary Orbits Elliptical?

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I hope everyone enjoys my Extremely Fancy images on this post.  I built most of this myself and I a) don't have the best technical art s...
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Friday, April 24, 2020

Are Viruses Alive?

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I'm getting pretty tired of content about SARS-CoV-2/novel coronavirus/Covid 19.  I mean, we all need the best, most up to date public h...
Monday, April 20, 2020

Exploring Nature at Home

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We're only a few days away from the 2020 City Nature Challenge and obviously this year is going to be a little bit different.  You can v...
Wednesday, December 12, 2018

Scientific Consensus and Uncertainty

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There is a line of thinking, you may have encountered it, that says something to the effect of "there is no such thing as consensus in ...
Saturday, August 11, 2018

The Speed of Light and Time Dilation

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So light is fast.   But its speed isn’t necessarily special.   It just travels at the highest speed the universe allows.   Photons (the part...
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