It’s official. I am relaunching this site after many years of benevolent dormancy. It will serve as my portfolio/dynamic resume and as a place for me to share random thoughts, links, and whatnot. I expect the site will be in the full swing of things, publishing-wise, by the new year.
My MNN writing- Lightning strike blows bark off treeReddit user Fidget08 shared this amazing photograph of a tree with its bark blown off from the blast of a lightning strike.
- Unbeelievable: Giant hive falls through man's bathroom ceilingAfter frequently noticing bees in his apartment, Redditor underdog106 went investigating. When he poked his head up into his attic, he found this massive beehive. Photo: Underdog106/Imgur
- The mystery of the explosive pig poop foamThere's a bubbling foamy scourge causing explosive havoc in industrial pig farmswarehouses all over the country, according to a new story over at Mother Jones.
- Converting landfills to nature preserves doesn't erase their negative impactThere's an article in The Telegraph about a former English landfill site turned nature reserve that's being hailed as an ecological success story. The article begins with a gorgeous photograph of a wind-swept highland cattle looking nobly over the grassy Essex landscape and highlights the new reserve's environmental credentials — the thousands […]
- Bald eagle swoops in and steals angler's catchI don't know what the best thing about this video is — the eagle or the reaction from the guy who's filming it. This reminds me of the superbly crafted fake viral video of a golden eagle nearly making off with a toddler.
- Facepalm of the week: Non-GMO salt!?Someone in the marketing department over at Himalania got a little over-exuberant about pointing out the benefits of their pink sea salt when they included a big fat "Non-GMO Project" icon on their label. Salt is not living. Salt cannot, by definition, be genetically modified. There is no G to M because salt is not an O. […]
- Freediving with a great white sharkWhen champion spearfisher and freediver Kimi Werner found herself outside the protective bars of shark cage in the water with a great white shark, she did something remarkable—she went swimming with it. Relying on her years of experience reading the body language of fish, she judged that the great white shark wasn't looking for a meal and glided down to […]
- Chicago is getting its own bike-sharing programThis summer, the city of Chicago will launch a bike-sharing program with 75 docking stations and hundreds of bikes, with plans to expand to 400 stations and thousands of bikes by next summer.
- O'Hare International Airport is going to the goatsChicago's O'Hare International Airport will welcome a few extra visitors next month in addition to the tens of millions of people who pass through its gates each year, when a herd of goats settles in for the summer. Their job is simple: eat, eat, then eat some more.
- There are 7 billion of us on the planet. What does that really look like? There are around 7 billion people on the planet right now. This fascinating graphic shows the world's relative population density. Via Reddit
- Lightning strike blows bark off tree
