Constantly Explore

Nature. Science. History.

We are going to do it.

Share
Share
Share
Share

An Exoplanetary Look Into Our Past

Todd C Simmons

28 Aug, 2017

Share
Share
Share
Share

MORE TO READ

A Trip to Another World

10/17/2018

The woods at Jacobsburg State Park are surprisingly quiet in spite of all the cars parked in the lot. Birds are heard but rarely seen as we walk from one environment, a deciduous forest, to another, a coniferous one. Leading us is one of the few birds we do see on this day - a white-breasted nuthatch (Sitta carolinensis). According to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's All About Birds website: "White-breasted Nuthatches are birds of mature woods and woodland edges. They’re particularly
Learning About Monocultures at SCBI

10/09/2018

A heavy mist pillows and blunts the top of the mountains outside Front Royal, Virginia. Yesterday my son and I rode the foothills of these mountains, our horses gauging their footing on the wet, muddy slopes as we let our hands sit forward on their necks, trusting them to gauge their own steps on what was, to us, unfamiliar land. We rode across the now obscured tracks of horsemen from both sides of the Civil War, as well as those of George Washington. We learned about history on that muddy
Sometimes you ride the horse...

10/02/2018

It is the first really cool day of fall but the morning chill mostly burns off by afternoon. By the time I get to the barn, it is almost too warm for a long-sleeve shirt, but not everything is as it seems. There is still something in the air that whispers, just barely hints, at autumn. Maybe it is the birds, jays and grosbeaks that fly over in a thin migratory stream. Duncan, the quarter horse that I ride, is in an interesting mood. There are no hitches in grooming and saddling him, and I feel