Wednesday, January 3, 2018 at 5:28PM 
Do you make new year resolutions?
I don't really, but I do try to pick up a project that will in some way lead to self improvement or change habits. This year I am thinking about ways to reduce the amount of waste I produce.
Wednesday, December 27, 2017 at 4:50PM 
Almo Farina of the University of Urbino in Italy near the Adriatic Sea measures the health of an ecosystem by recording the sounds it makes.
Tuesday, December 19, 2017 at 9:35AM .jpg)
The month of December is a good time to remember to be generous. I found myself shopping for trinkets recently. We have a family tradition of filling Christmas stockings with small stuff. I am fully aware that I am sustaining an exploitative economic system if I buy this stuff indiscriminately, so I try to think about who made the item, and who is benefiting from my purchase.
Tuesday, December 12, 2017 at 9:08AM 
“It is the month of December, and yet the city is at this very moment in a sweat. License is given to the general merrymaking. Everything resounds with mighty preparations, – as if (Christmas) differed at all from the usual business day! So true it is that the difference is nil, that I regard as correct the remark of the man who said: ‘Once December was a month; now it is a year.’ ”
Wednesday, December 6, 2017 at 6:23PM 
Most readers will likely have heard of the ‘carbon cycle’ from their school days.