Category Archives: Nature

Big Big Big

September 24, 2013 – 7:13 pm

Scary as heck. There be dragons. And man will ride them. Surfer Garrett McNamara catches what could be the largest wave ever surfed, off the coast of Nazare, Portugal, on Jan. 29. The estimated 100-foot wave, if confirmed, would beat the current world record of 78 feet, which McNamara has held since 2011. According to […]

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Great Barrier Wasteland

July 27, 2013 – 11:28 pm

Australia is a huge island with tremendous mineral deposits and proximity to China. Miners work triple-shifts in the Western Desert to satisfy the power demands of Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong. Geologists recently discovered a vast Queensland coalfield in Eastern Australia and the country’s Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Water has announced an impending […]

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Tora Tora Shark Tora

July 26, 2013 – 4:05 pm

Last week a teenager tourist was killed by a shark attack in Brazil. The big fish tore apart her left leg and doctors were not able to save the girl, even after amputating her leg. There have been 21 shark attacks in the region since 1991, although the young woman was the first recorded death […]

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Bad Grass

June 29, 2013 – 1:19 pm

Stephane was cutting the red grass from his field in France and posted this photo on FB. “Countryside removing the bad grass.” The picture reminded me that as a child my father had my older brother and I hand-pluck the weeds from our backyard in the Blue Hills. We were too young to use sharp […]

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Angels On The Head Of A Needle

June 9, 2013 – 5:46 pm

Gallnippers or mega mosquitoes have invaded Seminole County in Florida. According to entomologists at U Fla are about twenty times larger than the local mosquitoes and have a hall of a bite. Judging from the photo I can faithfully answer an ancient query which pesters medieval scholars. Thomas Aquinas wrote in Summa Theologica, “Can several […]

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