The Donors Choose Challenge is now over, and the project to get more nature bloggers involved was a success!!
The total amount given for the Nature Blogs Group was $5,170. That put our group at #11–not quite in the top 10, but still pretty darn good! That also is quite a bit more than I managed [...]
Just in time for the holidays–Xerces has a new native bee calendar!
“The Xerces Society and the Great Sunflower Project are happy to offer the 2010 Native Bee Calendar, which was created by Celeste Ets-Hokin. With magnificent close-up photos by Rollin Coville, this calendar takes you on a tour of twelve commonly encountered types of native [...]
It’s time for OpenLab! Since I will almost certainly be on the job market soon, an inclusion in OL would be a handy thing for my vita. I’m just sayin’……
Here’s some posts I’m considering nominating:
Insect Genitalia: an Entomological Obsession
Are there Roaches in Your Coffee and Chocolate?
Cochineal: It’s a Bug AND a Feature
Breaking Fail News: Scientific [...]
I happened to find this very entertaining Extension Publication in a box: Good Eating from Woods and Fields. It’s a 1960 reprint of an earlier pamphlet, and what a cultural artifact it is!
I couldn’t decide which of the photos to put here, and so went with my Beavis and Butthead instinct: Roast Beaver.
The pamphlet opens [...]
Ann Fadiman. At Large and Small: Familiar Essays. Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 2007.
Bug Rating:
I freely admit to being an Anne Fadiman fan-girl. Ex Libris is easily one of my favorite books. The Spirit Catches You is an amazing book about culture, epilepsy, immigration, and they way we don’t communicate. So, I was pretty sure [...]
A cool opportunity for teachers!!
WANTED: Up to 20 schools (in the U.S., east of the Rocky Mountains) to follow the development of monarchs on the International Space Station.
Background
The next Space Shuttle launch is scheduled for November 16th. Atlantis will carry three 4th instar monarch caterpillars to the International Space Station (ISS) in a small rearing [...]
Sorry to be a downer lately…I’m realizing that I have to go look for a job soon, and it’s rather a bummer. How about a pretty picture? Ursja has uploaded more beautiful beetle photos! OMGSHINY!!
Well, Michigan now has a budget, and the Governor did not use her line item veto to completely destroy Extension. That’s the good news.
But. The Extension budget will still be cut 44%, which is a LOT. Part of the problem is that Extension funding is incredibly complex. Between County, State, and Federal inputs, it’s hard [...]
You might remember that I got in trouble in the past for saying what I thought about some cuts to Michigan’s State Budget in early 2009. And that was NOTHING compared to what’s about to happen.
It appears the state of Michigan is about to lead the nation…in dropping all its Extension Service funding. It [...]
You might remember that last month I threw down the gauntlet to some of the bigger cousins in the interwebs for the DonorsChoose Challenge!
DonorsChoose.org is an online charity that provides an easy way for people to fund projects in schools by donating online. The Challenge is a month-long competition between blogs to see who can [...]
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