What’s The World Like In The 21st Century?

I found this in my email reading today…It makes you wonder if the modern world is really all that modern after all. Apparently for about a third of the world’s

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International Year of Biodiversity

Welcome to the International Year of Biodiversity You are an integral part of nature; your fate is tightly linked with biodiversity, the huge variety of other animals and plants, the

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The Trees Are Calling It Spring Already…

Spring Gradual warming that began earlier this week is forecast to continue through the weekend, and by early next week high temperatures should climb into the mid-70s as warm, wet

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Weather Patterns And The Incongruences Of The Web

This afternoon I finally started working my way through my Google Reader subscriptions. The sequence of stories brought me up short and I tried to capture a screen shot. Evidently

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Happy Texas Independence Day!

Today, Texas celebrates 174 years of its Lone Star Identity. This past year has given me a closer connection to this piece of Texas history. Research has now connected our

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Snowmagedon…It Didn’t.

The sun has risen on more frost covered morns than I can ever recall. But by mid-day the temperatures will be pushing into the mid 60’s…even over 70 degrees. Then after sundown the temperatures fall again into the mid to low 30’s…Only to repeat the roller-coaster all over again the next day.

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Will Snowmagedon Come Calling To The SE Texas Coast?

Now comes a fitting bookend to a winter seemingly without end. While we have missed any snow accumulations here this winter, we did have a full afternoon of flurries back

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It’s A New Week And I Am Wondering Where The Birds Went…

Blue jays and robins are a sign of winter in my neck of the woods. Over the weekend a notion of mine, one that has been percolating around in this

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