Eastern screech-owl
Last night, my partner and I received a mysterious and memorable visitation. With the sun setting behind the Church of Our Lady, we…
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Mixed-flock swallow phenomenon
Over the weekend I witnessed interesting behaviour in a flock of swallows along the Speed River. Friday afternoon on the way home from…
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Arboretum spring walk
[slickr-flickr id=”12687067@N00″ type=”gallery” tag=”arb1104″] On Easter Monday my partner and I went for a stroll at University of Guelph Arboretum. Nowhere is resurrection…
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Milk of happiness
One obstacle to switching to locally produced food is the cost. People on low incomes cannot afford to give up the savings of…
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Connecting to the planet: Chris Earley discusses the Galapagos
Chris Earley is interpretive biologist and education coordinator at University of Guelph Arboretum. He has written four field guides to birds of North…
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Speed River Project update
Yesterday Ontario Public Interest Research Group (OPIRG) Guelph hosted a meeting to discuss its Speed River Project. Guest speaker Dr. Karen Morrison discussed…
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Making beauty in the city
The air feels cold like late winter, but the light is early spring: more intense, direct and engaged, having shaken it’s winter detachment….
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Reconciling science and spirituality
Where lies the intersection between science and spirituality? As a former evangelical Christian who one day realized he no longer believed in God,…
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Tree bark gallery
[slickr-flickr id=”12687067@N00″ type=”gallery” tag=”treezone2″] This winter I got in the habit of feeling tree bark. One weekend on a stroll through cedar woods…
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Consciousness and eyesight
Addressing Why did consciousness evolve? Malcolm MacIver at Science Not Fiction theorizes it arose as animals left the sea and adapted to terrestrial…
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