Eating low on the food chain is all the rage at the moment, and perhaps for very good reason. Vegetarians have been extolling the virtues of a plant-based diet for years, even before the vegan camp got in on the act. Eating your veggies and limiting meat is a common theme on green websites. The undercurrents in the [...]
For the second time in recent memory someone was struck in the Florida Keys after a ray lept from the water and into a boat. Apparently tourists vacationing off Marathon spooked a spotted eagle ray that lept onboard, struck one woman and knocked her into the decking. Unfortunately she died of the injury to her head.
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The field of education, as a whole, makes a remarkable effort to appeal to everyone’s dominant senses. Some of us learn best through hearing, some through reading, and some through direct experience. Its the last group that really gets spoiled in environmental education. Math teachers may give you “manipulatives” to putter about with when attempting [...]
I heart gopher tortoises. My best gal-pal Annie spent a large chunk of a year with the Student Conservation Association a while back working on habitat usage studies for desert tortoises in Nevada. Apparently, her love of tortoises was infectious. Shortly after hearing her stories of tortoise love and infaturation I became a sucker for [...]
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