Archive for the 'wildlife' Category

in my home town, the birds all go to heaven

August 15th, 2008

this is a birdhouse in front of a church in East Greenwich, RI
sparrow services at 5am, robins at 9.
my new CityPaper story is out, too, and in it you will learn why you are lucky not to be online dating. not that I speak from experience.


some bad news

June 5th, 2008

stay away from biting furry things, like Arnold


BUSH SIGNS QUILTING MUSEUM INTO BEING

May 10th, 2008

oh, yeah, and federalizes immigration and labor in the CNMI, and gives the CNMI a nonvoting delegate thus undoing all of Jack Abramoff’s hard, expensive, quite possibly illegal work - - and designates the National Museum of Wildlife Art of the United States!!
S. 2739 is some big bill


in case you need to know

May 5th, 2008

here’s a tutorial on repairing a butterfly’s broken wing

and here’s the Kids in the Hall, crushing your head


scorpion neurotoxin not so useless after all

November 14th, 2007

turns out it can kill malarial mosquitoes, among others
at least that’s what I think the report says
but more importantly:
Early Teen Sex May Not Be a Path to Delinquency


Selamat Tahun Baru, as they say in Bali

January 2nd, 2007

Last time I was in Bali for New Year’s, I ran into some trouble.
This time, I ran into some people at the royal family’s temple near Ubud- I must shamefully admit to having forgotten this lovely place’s name - who were making Hindu icons out of meat.
To wit:

meat!


snowboarding and snowshoeing in Japan

December 11th, 2006

If you find yourself flying All Nippon Airways this month, you can read my story about trying - and failing - to learn how to snowboard in Niseko, a very very snowy area near Sapporo. Yes, indeedy, I tried to snowboard, and tried the patience of my poor snowboard instructors.
this is a snowboarder in […]


be like Yao Ming: don’t eat shark fin soup

August 30th, 2006

My article about sharks came out in this month’s Asian Geographic. It’s about the crisis of extinction sharks are facing, and what some people - like Yao Ming - are doing about it.
You can’t see the whole article online - got to subscribe to the magazine for that - but I can give you […]