Skunk Tracks

* This picture was taken at 5:14pm MST in Grand Junction, Colorado. It was created using a pair of 10 X 42 binoculars. The obj...

* The teens and I left Grand Junction a bit late. We picked up supplies for our pin-hole viewers at City Market and then headed ou...

* We're finally seeing hummingbirds at one of our feeders in the back yard . We put it out last Saturday. We saw our first hummingbi...

* This week in anatomy class, we were studying the anatomy of the eye. I had never heard the term scleroid coat before. Now a related term...

Last night I watched a really interesting program about the Sumerian Planisphere, a cuneiform tablet from Southern Iraq dating to 700 BC. A...

90 centuries before the founding of Rome... http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/12/18/travel/escapes/18petroglyph.html

A friend posted this video on her Facebook page today. It is one of those things that, once I see it, I wonder how it is possible that I ha...

Here are a couple of cool archaeological finds reported in the last few days. Thanks to Annaliese for the one about Nero's banquet hall ...

850 Mostly Blind, Pale Creatures Discovered Underground By Charles Q. Choi , Special to LiveScience posted: 28 September 2009 12:31 am ET ht...

This is an exciting story. Amazing stuff! One of my memories from the 3 years that I lived in England is of the large number of older men th...

I stayed up late last night fuming once again about the Patriot Act. I feel helpless and ineffectual as a citizen when it comes to this iss...

Now THIS is neat! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOMiowrff0Y

Isn't it wonderful that we are alive at a time when discoveries like THIS are still possible? I feel sorry for my soul's next iterat...

Afferent Fibers - at full alert, ready and waiting to report back. Efferent Fibers - apparently Out To Lunch for the moment...

This article, posted on the LSUS Music Dept's bulletin board, amplifies the discovery of prehistoric flutes into a wonderful commentary ...

If you look carefully at this admittedly low-quality picture of the moon, you'll notice Mars at about 5 O'Clock. Kate and I had hear...

There is a lunar eclipse happening tonight! For more info... check out this link: http://www.hermit.org/Eclipse/2007-08-28/ There will be li...

From The New York Times: February 3, 2007 Science Panel Calls Global Warming ‘Unequivocal’ By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL and ANDREW C. REVKI...

Robin Lloyd Senior Editor LiveScience.com Thu Jan 25, 8:10 AM ET Fish have the reasoning capacity of ...

By Yereth Rosen Tue Jan 16, 4:53 PM ET "...A new count by the National Marine Fisheries Service puts the...