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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...

Interior Design Tips from the Museum Professionals

We live in a time when there is an overwhelming abundance of home make-over TV shows, articles, and online blogs about redecorating, redesigning, and...

Did God Design a Disposable, Ah Hem . . . Appendage?

On 12 February 2013, Charles Darwin’s 204th birthday anniversary, BBC science reporter Rebecca Morelle published a startling column entitled, “Sea slug’s ‘disposable penis’...

Deja Vue on Groundhog Day

Did ya ever get that feeling? That "I swear I just did this and now I'm doing it all over again" feeling? It's...

Coping With Different Family Thermostats

Weather is a fickle friend.  One day the sun bathes us with warmth, the next, we are cast into a cruel, shivering, bitter...

Saying Goodbye To A Cherished Part of The Pack

Dogs are perfect little animals.  They love unconditionally, forgive easily, and never ask for money or the car keys.  Dogs are also future...

2013, A Time to Grow Up?

In all your official acts, self interest shall be cast into oblivion…return to the way of the Great Law which is just and...