Interesting study to keep you motivated while I’m off in the woods: Kids are spending less and less time outdoors. Why? We’re becoming more and more wired in and dependent on technology: There is a growing disparity between the time kids spend indoors wired to technology and the time they spend outside enjoying nature. The […]
I hope everyone had a great Memorial Day weekend and didn’t make a pig of themselves (sorry, I couldn’t resist the bad joke). But speaking of food and pigs, this story popped up in my alerts today and it was just too good not to share. Theodore is a potbellied pig at Sage Community School, […]
Where I live is incredibly fertile farmland, with lots of kids having to get up to milk cows, feed chickens, and so on before they catch the bus to school. It’s nice to see that connection to the land follow them into the classroom, and teach their classmates where their food comes from: Mountain View […]
First, happy Veteran’s Day. Thanks to all the veterans for defending us. Speaking of defending, I’d like to introduce the Amphibian Avenger: The world’s amphibians are under attack from a deadly fungus, which threatens to wipe out a third of all species. It’s the worst extinction crisis since the dinosaurs were wiped off the planet […]
That’s right, I will be presenting a brown bag at Woodland Park Zoo on Thursday, November 18th, regarding my research with visitors to the WPZ’s gorilla exhibit. That’s next week, eep! I have been volunteering with WPZ since June of 2009. During the summers of 2009 and 2010, I studied how visitors interacted with the […]
