What with all the blogging and tweeting about last Saturday’s WordCamp at the Houston Museum of Natural Science (HMNS), I suddenly realized that I had never written an account of my trip to Houston last September to see the Terra Cotta Warriors exhibit at HMNS. I was spending a hell of a lot of my [...]
Turns out the martins haven’t actually left the area, they just moved out of the house. On reflection, it seemed like a bad time to migrate south — it’s still winter on the other side of the equator. Plainly, I don’t know as much about purple martin migratory habits as some people. I seem to [...]
My favorite place locally is the Texas Cooperative Wildlife Collection (TCWC). It is not a well-known attraction, but every former student of the local university who majored in Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences (WFS) or Renewable Natural Resources (RENR) knows what and where it is. The “collection” is a natural history collection, in short, dead animals. [...]
I’m no psychologist. But I wonder, what if it’s a holdover from much earlier, less settled times in human history, when it might have made sense to gather and hang on to portable, edible items? Hmm. This is completely unscientific, of course, but if you do a web search, you’ll find that websites with the [...]