H. Bruce Rinker, Ph.D.
H. Bruce Rinker III, Ph.D. : In Memoriam
Bruce Rinker III, Ph.D., scientist, veteran science educator, conservationist, and explorer, passed to the Beyond on Sunday, January 7, 2024, at King’s Daughters Health and Rehabilitation Center in Staunton,...
H. BRUCE RINKER: Words That I’ve Lived By
During one of my morning meditation practices this week, I reflected on some of the...
H. BRUCE RINKER,P.h.D.: During These High Holy Days
This time of the year is filled annually with noisy festivals and twinkling lights, and...
H. Bruce Rinker: Oneing with the Lotus
As a scientist, I am intrigued by seemingly archaic words that regain a contemporary relevance...
H. BRUCE RINKER: Trump’s New Clothes
“The Emperor Has No Clothes” was a folktale published in 1837 by Hans Christian Anderson,...
H. BRUCE RINKER: From STEM and STEAM to ECO-STEAM: Why the Whole is Important
Years ago, during my interview for an adjunct professorship at the Ringling School of Art and Design in Sarasota, Florida, I argued successfully the...
What Wondrous Variety!
In the early 1990s, while on expedition in equatorial Africa, I helped to discover two new species: a tiny ant and an equally diminutive...
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...
A Few Small Nips
In her 1935 painting, “A Few Small Nips,” revolutionary Mexican artist Frida Kahlo recorded in cartoon-like fashion a grisly murder: a bare and bloodied...
A Silly Little $5 Billion Salamander
Virginia Sneezeweed and the Cow Knob Salamander. Their common names sound like droll Dr. Seuss characters.
Their scientific names, on the other hand, resonate with...
