exploring nature’s infinite connections
One year ago, I wrote about a bit of a rabbit hole I stepped into regarding the name of a local city-owned nature preserve and confusion over some naming on the maps of a couple of streams that run through or around the Plum Brook Nature Preserve (aka. Sterling...
The evening of October 10, 2024 ( a KP index of 9!) brought another spectacular solar storm our way, triggering displays of the Aurora Borealis across Michigan and elsewhere. The Aurora Borealis appears more frequently at lower latitudes because we are likely...
Fifty-thousand watts! That is an amount of power that I typically only associate with some warning on a big red sign at an electrical plant or the laboratory of Dr. Frankenstein. Yet, on a regular basis, I now see it on the dashboard of my car. Only I am not trying to...