Olden Days Science Kissing

Lookie here, Alexander Graham Bell was creating some kind of free wheeling love-fest with his crazy tetrahedral kite designs...

The Long Now Foundation

I just found out about The Long Now foundation. Spectacular, earnest video, put together in logical order. Most of all I loved to learn about the Orrery. I first heard of an orrery in a fiction book (Little, Big) and I didn't know if it was make believe so I am glad to know that they really exist.

The Long Now people are installing a clock on a parcel of land near the Great Basin National Park. Here you can play many sounds of nature from the park. And you can find out about The Night Sky Team.

Short movie about birds

Mundaneum

A reason to visit Mons, Belgium... The New York Times has an article about a man named Otlet, who wanted to establish a large analog search engine... Anyone in the world could submit a question by telegraph or by mail and get an answer from the world's largest card catalog.

“The problem is that no one knows the story of the Mundaneum,” said the lead archivist, Stéphanie Manfroid. “People are not necessarily excited to go see an archive. It’s like, would you rather go see the latest ‘Star Wars’ movie, or would you rather go see a giant card catalog?”

American Avocet

Kildeer watching

The first day I noticed the kildeer flying around me they distracted me with a broken wing trick. While filming them I finally noticed that they had a nest nearby. About four days later the younglings are now running around on their own. In the lower image you can see their four chicks.

sunrise over the valley

A collaboration—a snippet of Meara's music.