Entries Categorized as 'Environment'

The World Is Awesome…

Date April 21, 2008

Apologies for a third straight video-post.. but maybe not really. My sentiments are probably expressed well in this video.

The Immortal Jellyfish…

Date April 3, 2008

Turritopsis nutricula is a hydrozoan (jellyfish) with a life cycle in which it reverts back to the polyp stage after becoming sexually mature. It is the first case in which a metazoan (animal) is capable of reverting completely to a sexually immature, colonial stage after having reached sexual maturity as a solitary stage (Piraino et [...]

Shenandoah Burning…

Date March 28, 2008

I’m sitting in a pretty sketchy Ramada Inn in Roanoke, Virginia wishing I were back in Annapolis, or in New Orleans, or somewhere that isn’t Roanoke, Virginia. It might not be the lost colony, but it’s definitely lost in… somewhere.
Today I decided to skip the majority of the Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia to [...]