Tag: nature
Leafsnap App: It Would Make Darwin Drool
Categorizing and classifying: these are the sorts of things that taxonomists are good at. While the rest of us may be able to sort our clothes by brand, our plant classification skills have really gone downhill in the last 100 years. Today, our hunting and gathering takes place in the grocery store, ...
A Fly Doing A Somersault: Award-Winning 16 Second Video
I'm one of those people who doesn't kill very many bugs. I'll squish a mosquito or stomp on a roach, but for just about every other kind of bug, I try to help them to safety when they end up in my domain. If I encountered one of these 8 Biggest Baddest Fugliest Bugs, that might be a different story, ...
Spectacular Sea Salt Formations From The Lowest Place On Earth
I saw these absolutely stunning natural tapestries on BoingBoing a few days ago, and since I've thought about them several times since then, I wanted to share them with you today. I've traveled a lot around the world, but I don't know much about the Israel or the Palestine area. I should ask my Twit ...
Work Alongside Nature: An Inspiring Office Building In The Woods
If you are like me, you spend the majority of your day and night in front of your computer. It's very common for me to sit down at my computer when it's dark outside, and not stop working until it's dark outside again. Then I take a quick bike ride or walk, and before I know it, I'm sitting in my be ...
Mama Birds Feeding Baby Birds: 8 Heart Warming Photos
I remember earlier this year when the webcam recording that family of bald eagles in Iowa went viral. Back then we were all waiting for that third egg to hatch, and at any moment there were between 100,000 and 150,000 people watching the nest live. That experience taught us a lot about the behavior ...
Poor Little Trees: Cut Down Forest Trees With Sad Faces
Trees are living things, and each time one gets cut down, it's a little sad. Some trees grow for decades to become the huge natural masterpieces we sometimes see when we take a walk in the woods. I think that is one reason why I love hiking and camping so much, seeing that natural beauty never gets ...
Living Typography: Simple Birdhouses Designed For Sparrows
I've gone through a lot of changes in my in the past few years, and if you've also felt yourself grow and stretch, you've probably noticed a longing to be closer to nature. It's an interesting thing when that happens, but one clue that we are developing as a person and changing is that we have a cra ...
11 New Images Of The Highly Anticipated New Apple HQ
I seem to somehow pick up everything Apple related just to read up on it. I can sometimes find myself pouring over websites and text that describe the company's history all in all. I even have the movie about how Microsoft picked a fight with Apple back in the eighties. The movie is of course called ...
The Art & Science Behind The Perfect S’more
If you love spending weekends in the mountains like I do, you know that everything tastes better when it's cooked over a campfire. When I'm in the city, I would never choose to eat Beanee Weenees or Easy Cheese on crackers, but in the woods, suddenly that stuff is a gourmet meal, and it tastes delic ...
The Glass Shard Beach: Set Your Soft Feet On This Beauty
There is a war that the world is battling, and I am not talking about between us people. We have enough wars, and we shouldn't be adding more. I am talking about the world, our home, our planet. It's a constant war that has been going on since the beginning of time. It's the kind that sort of never ...
Inspiring Rock Sculptures That Appear To Defy Gravity
Just looking at the images in this article makes me feel relaxed and peaceful. I've spent a lot of time in the North Georgia Mountains, and in rivers and lakes like what you see here. I've held many rocks like these in my hands, and I know first hand how slippery and heavy they can be. This patient ...
10 Insects That Look Like Aliens
I know a lot of ladies are squeamish when it comes to bugs. I'm not one of them. Since I grew up in a small town in rural South Carolina, I've seen it all. I can hang with wildlife that would make most grown men shiver. I'm not saying that to brag, but rather to tell you that it has to be a really, ...
Science: Beautiful Rainbow Colored Ant Stomachs
In the 5th grade, I tried hard to come up with a cool science experiment for my class. I ended up making perfume from flowers, which was a little boring. If I had known about this, it would have been the perfect science experiment to impress all my geeky elementary school friends.
Did you know th ...
Scent Of Flower: Creative Art Made From Flowers
Most creative artists look at the world a little differently than everyone else. They see opportunities to change the world and help the environment by simply using their imaginations. Instead of seeing problems and limitations, they see beauty and possibilities.
For example, consider these compa ...
12 Bird Nests In Unusual Places: Get Inspired By Nature
I've always had a soft spot for bird nests and the baby birds that the mamas take care of inside those nests. I've written before about Tweet-Tweet, my childhood pet. Tweet-Tweet was a wild sparrow that I rescued after he fell out of his nest. After he was strong again, I tried to let him go back in ...