Guest Columnist
What To Do With Injured Wildlife
We at Southwest Virginia Wildlife Center of Roanoke have found that our neighbors in southwestern Virginia are very concerned about wildlife, so we want to provide some guidelines to...
ASHLEY RAMBO SHAW: I Hope You Found a Way Out
Jason was my best friend in the third grade, and he was hopelessly poor. He...
H. BRUCE RINKER: Pollution Has A Brand!
When Mexican businessman Alfredo Gandur inspected my photographs of marine plastics pollution along the coastline...
What Wondrous Variety!
In the early 1990s, while on expedition in equatorial Africa, I helped to discover two...
Stones In The Washing Machine
Want to understand the rise of modern Europe? Look for stones in the washing...
Some of The Best Things We Do Are Never Intended
Thanks to a forbidden communications tactic, your ears can now travel through time.
Back in the late 1930's, CBS Radio affiliate KIRO in Seattle had...
A Good Time to LEAP Into The Market
The stock market is bouncing all over the place, which makes this the perfect time to leap in.
History reveals that Leap Years outperform Average...
Why Do You Like Thanksgiving? – Carey Kinsolving
Author Lowell Streiker once asked his 4-year-old grandson how he liked his Thanksgiving dinner. "I didn't like the turkey much, but I sure loved...
Carlsberg Brewing: Who Knew?
You don't often equate scientific advancement with the swilling of a few beers...
But consider Carlsberg Brewing Company. It was established in Copenhagen in 1847...
A Challah of Protest
In Jewish tradition, Challah is a loaf of yeast-risen bread, often braided, blessed and then consumed on Sabbaths and holidays. Every aspect of Challah...
Arresting and Ephemeral
Arresting and ephemeral. These two lovely adjectives seem common in the botanicals when naturalists describe Virginia Bluebells, one of my favorite native wildflowers in...