Here Be Dragons

Tomorrow morning, at Oh-dark-hundred, Clark and I are off to a fair. Not just a county fair, not just a Europe fair, but a World's fair -- the World's Fair in Knoxville, Tennessee! The Hungarians have built a giant motorized Rubik's cube, and the fair's symbol is the SunSphere, which...

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A Boundless Ethic

For all of my animal loving readers via Prof Pan, who is in Tokyo for a conference. Lucky, lucky bastage....

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Paper or Plastic?

Did you see the movie American Beauty? There's a scene in which the neighbor's boy shows his girlfriend this movie he made of a plastic bag "dancing" in a breeze. It goes like this. Ricky to his girlfriend, Jane Burnham "You want to see the most beautiful thing I've ever...

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Ghost Crab

Ghost Crab Originally uploaded by manahanwill THE GHOST CRAB, Ocypode quadrata While shelling on the beaches of Ocracoke Island, NC, Jenne and I would also keep our eyes open for Ghost Crabs and their burrows. Some of them are quite large, the burrows and the crabs, although they are...

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