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Trivia 054: Rarer than a Sea Bass

Posted on2023-01-27Leave a comment

Since I was a kid, I’ve loved visiting museums and aquaria (plural of “aquarium”). I’ve visited the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science so many times that I could probably lead tours there. I can’t quite say the same of the Albuquerque Aquarium, but I typically won’t decline a visit. Strangely, though, zoos Read More …

CategoriesTriviaTagsanimals, fish, nature, newsletter, ocean, trivia

Trivia 034: Vaccines from lizards

Posted on2022-09-07Leave a comment

When I was a child, my grandmother had a house in Santa Barbara. The house was close to a large grove of Eucalyptus trees that we would go walking in. One day when we got back to the house, I discovered something rather disconcerting. There was a small insect stuck to my chest drinking my Read More …

CategoriesTriviaTagsadvice, animals, nature, newsletter, outdoors, trivia

Trivia 032: Maybe the grass shouldn’t be greener

Posted on2022-08-19Leave a comment

During the hot summer months, it’s quite nice to enjoy hanging out in a park or in your backyard, enjoying the feeling of grass between your toes. But that green grass comes at a cost. A study done by NASA in 2005 determined that lawns took up three times more acreage than corn did in Read More …

CategoriesTriviaTagsclimate, gardening, nature, newsletter, outdoors, plants, trivia

Trivia 029: Pudge controls the weather

Posted on2022-08-04Leave a comment

Hello all. I know that you missed me last week. I wish that I could say that I was busy with work or struck with a sudden illness, but in reality I just forgot. My bad. So, to make it up to you, there’s going to be two posts this week! This is the first Read More …

CategoriesTriviaTagsanimals, nature, newsletter, trivia

Trivia 028: It all piles up

Posted on2022-07-21Leave a comment

So today’s post was going to be about a mostly unrelated topic to this. Until I discovered that I couldn’t really find any references to what I wanted to talk about, but found this instead. I’m not going to reveal what I was originally going to talk about, because I might come back to it Read More …

CategoriesTriviaTagsadvice, hiking, nature, newsletter, outdoors, trivia

Trivia 017: Goodbye, banana bread

Posted on2022-04-282022-05-12Leave a comment

One of my favorite things to bake is banana bread. It’s easy, tasty, and a great way to use up those last few bananas that are becoming a bit too ripe. However, there may come a day in the not too distant future when this classic yellow fruit disappears from our grocery stores. In fact, Read More …

CategoriesTriviaTagsfood, nature, newsletter, plants, trivia

Trivia 009: No Step on Snek

Posted on2022-03-032022-05-12Leave a comment

As the weather begins to get warmer, we are starting to enter snake season. I, for one, love our scaly little friends. For example, here’s a friendly little Western Racer who came into our building last August.   It took a bit of coaxing to get him out the door. Along the way he tried Read More …

CategoriesTriviaTagsanimals, health, hiking, nature, newsletter, outdoors, trivia

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