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The Exciting Season

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The Ancients saw (as some peoples still see) autumn as the beginning of the year: one’s calendar started when one reaped the harvest. The year began not in the bleak months of winter, but amid the earth’s bounty, made greater through cultivation. Even now, our school year traditionally begins in deference to an agricultural schedule.…

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This Weekend: Best of the Perseid Meteor Shower

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From NASA’s science news, the timing of one of the year’s best celestial shows: On the nights of Aug. 11th through 13th, the best meteor shower of the year will fill pre-dawn skies with hundreds of shooting stars. And that’s just for starters. The brightest planets in the solar system are lining up right in…

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Panorama: NASA’s Mars Pancam

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The LA Times website offers an embedded, interactive panorama combined from over eight-hundred photos of the Martian surface. The composite is astounding. See, Panorama: NASA’s Mars Pancam @ latimes.com.

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Natural Plant Communities Talk & Tour at the Whitewater Effigy Mounds Preserve on Saturday, May 26th at 10 AM

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I received the following press release that I’m happy to post: Renae Prell-Mitchell, from UW-Whitewater, will lead a ‘Natural Plant Communities Talk & Tour’ at the Whitewater Effigy Mounds Preserve on Saturday, May 26th at 10 AM. Renae will talk about the existing wetlands, DOT prairie and Silver maples/bur oak stand, as well as the…

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Go Native!

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Whitewater has many well-manicured lawns, and on a few of them, some honey bee hives. The lawns are lovely, and the honey bees (despite depleted aggregate numbers from colony collapse disorder) are good pollinators. But what if there’s something different, perhaps even better, than conventional lawns and common honey bees? There is something different —…