Look around. Earth in a bit of distress? Not quite looking up to her old self? Attention, Tractor Drivers! Snakes are Sacred, You Guys! (Poor little baby bull snake meets the Seasonal Foreign […]
The Language of Science, Part 1
Ancient Stories Written in the Rock
At the bottom of Skaha Lake, where the Okanagan River once collected itself in a series of oxbows and reefs before dropping over the falls (a series of steep rapids), the point at […]
The Unity of Plants vs. Human Hate
The science based on Darwin holds that plants evolve over time to fit various ecological niches. This bunchgrass, for example, evolved to take advantage of hot, windy climates. The science based on […]
Garage Sex, Okanagan Style
The marriage bed. Go away for 3 weeks and the neighbours move in, with each other on their mind. Madam came first. Yeah, she didn’t pose very well, but there was all […]
Try This on Mars, I Dare You
Life in the sky… … vanishes (This is a form of ripening.) At first it is nowhere to be found. Bones are everywhere. The sun has burnt everything away.Not everything. There are bee caves. […]
Vertical Rivers and Walking on Water
Just look at this aspen pouring up into the sun. Aspen Copse with Beetle-Killed Fire Pine, Big Bar Lake My sister. To Newtonian science, this is an image of organized physical processes viewed by […]
Canada and the Okanagan
Canada does not deserve this land. It burns it… Forest Fire Smoke Over Okanagan Landing … it tries to make it hotter than it is … Plasticized Soil (Weeds, plastic, clay), […]
Saving the Grasslands One Garden at a Time
In forest fire season, even the grassland hills are suffering in the smoke.Note how the golf course road zig-zagging back and forth here manages to take all the water away. Note as […]
The Problem With Darwin
Darwin is English. Goethe is German. There have been wars over this. Pity. Let me explain. First, an image of multiplicity from the former East Germany: Goethe’s Botanical Garden in Jena, Germany […]
Two Different Methods of Science
Yesterday, I pointed out parts of the scientific colour theory of the poet, statesman and early scientist Goethe. That theory is based on the belief that a science built from a foundation of […]
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