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...
Krispy Kreme Provides Balm for Spinal Surgery and More
The German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer once said “The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.” Recently, I spent six weeks with...
White House Christmas Cards: 1945 to the Present
President Ulysses S. Grant made Christmas Day (December 25) a national holiday in 1870. From that point forward, a Christmas card from the White...
Where Mixology Meets Etymology
Nobody is quite sure where the name comes from. But the drink has its roots in many forms of milk-and-alcohol libations that were...
The Season of Giving is Well Under Way
New Jersey native John Turner runs a water removal business in Chicago. Recently, after seeing the devastation of Superstorm Sandy, he loaded his...
Ask The Nature Lady: American Mistletoe
I first noticed American Mistletoe one December many years ago while I was jogging. It was a “ball” of fleshy-looking green leaves about one...
One Bad Earthquake
My intellectual hero is Charles Darwin.
A courageous man with a heightened sense of wonder and curiosity about the natural world, Darwin lived from...