The prominent scientific journal Nature recently profiled one of the first scientists I interviewed as a student journalist at Colorado College, Jerry Glover of the Kansas-based Land Institute. Glover and other Land Institute scientists are working to create a new form of perennial agriculture, based on the natural prairie ecosystem of Kansas.
Perennial agriculture has [...]
Monterey Bay Aquarium’s popular exhibit Jellies: Living Art will be closing September 14, 2008. This exhibit contains both spectacular living specimens of a variety of jellies (“jellyfish”) from around the world rarely seen in aquariums and a variety of art that echoes the shapes, colors, and movements of the jellies, ranging from Blaschka glass [...]
I have a fairly large collection of books on writing, most of which have never been very helpful. These are the ones that I refer to frequently, or that have an impact on my writing:
Ideas into Words: Mastering the Craft of Science Writing, by Elise Hancock
ISBN 0801873304
This slim little book doesn’t talk about marketing [...]
I wrote this month’s University of Colorado Museum of Natural History Object of the Month, Fossil Ginkgo from Siberia. Every month the Museum website highlights a specimen or artifact from its collection of over 4 million items.
I really enjoyed writing this up–the Kudia River fossils are beautiful and strikingly different from the cold-tolerant plants [...]