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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...

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...