This time, with a moth

Here are a few more images from my recent northern road trip, this time from western Idaho. Right outside the town of New Meadows were fields of flowers thick with life. It was some of the best day collecting I’ve done in years, and fellow road tripper Peter Jump and I discovered this . . . → Aqra Aktar: This time, with a moth

Off b'rashom!

(kreditu tar-ritratti)

The monarchs have started their spring migration north and you might even see one soon (mhux eċċitanti jekk tgħix fi FL jew HI fejn hemm residenti s-sena kollha, jew f'CA fejn hemm spots separati tax-xitwa). Ir-rapporti mill-lokalitajiet tax-xitwa tagħhom fil-Messiku madankollu huma diżastrużi; with possibly the lowest . . . → Aqra Aktar: Off b'rashom!

Sad imma veru

The brief comment about Linus Pauling and Vitamin C below made me remember this video first posted a while ago by Pharyngula. This is Kary Mullis, the inventor of PCR, and a Nobel Prize winner. His invention basically made DNA analysis possible. But like Pauling, he is also completely and totally nuts. If you have . . . → Aqra Aktar: Sad imma veru