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Natural Perspectives: Our trek to the lek
Vic and I were in the Eastern Sierras a few weeks ago. He was leading an Audubon birding trip, primarily to see greater sage-grouse on their courtship display grounds, which are called leks. The lek is just north of Crowley Lake, a few miles outside...
Tags: Science and Technology, Trips and Vacations, Politics, Endangered Species, U.S. Department of the Interior
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'We're letting him do his own thing'
When a dolphin swam into Bolsa Chica sometime before noon Friday, the wetlands got a surprise visitor. Now, they may have an unintended mascot. Five days and many media stories later, the dolphin still hadn't left the water near Warner Avenue and Pacific...
Tags: Science and Technology, Natural Resources, Zoology, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service
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In the Pipeline: The daughter is in
I had the distinct pleasure of watching Nina Kar in action recently at St. Joseph Hospital of Orange. The tennis-playing Mater Dei High School sophomore, born and raised in Huntington Beach, has so far worked hundreds of volunteer service hours as a...
Tags: Health, Science and Technology, Uganda, Physiology, Prostate Cancer
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In The Pipeline: The outdoors is his classroom
About two years ago, I experienced my first grunion run — a late-night visit to the beach in the hopes of seeing mobs of the elusive fish, the grunion, appear to perform their mysterious spawning rituals. I'd heard many stories of people trying for...
Tags: Science and Technology, University of Washington, Hinduism, Teaching and Learning, Education
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Natural Perspectives: Preparing for 'coronal mass ejection'
To play on a phrase from "Star Trek": "Space. The final weather frontier." I just learned that space weather is something that exists. I asked Vic if he had ever heard of space weather, and he said no. We knew about solar wind, which is a steady...Tags: Science and Technology, Solar Storms (2012), Weather, Weather Reports, Astronomy
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Natural Perspectives: Adventures in snowy Albuquerque
Generally, Vic and I try to avoid flying into the midst of a natural disaster. But sometimes it just happens. If you recall, I was caught in a tornado in April in Tennessee, near Knoxville. Golf ball-sized hail totaled my rental car with hundreds of...Tags: Disasters and Accidents, Natural Resources, Museums, Arts and Culture, Museum of Natural History
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Natural Perspectives: Priority should be preventing extinction
An article in Physorg.com this week reported that a team of scientists from Japan and Russia believe that they may be able to produce a living woolly mammoth within the next five years by a cloning process. Key to their research will be finding an...Tags: Marine Science, Endangered Species, Mexico, Natural Resources, State Parks
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Natural Perspectives: iCan't get enough of birding apps on iPad
I bought myself an iPad 2 about three weeks ago and became instantly addicted. I should point out that Vic and I are long-time PC people, not Apple people. Well, we used to be anyway. Vic switched his desktop computer from a PC to Mac this year, so he'...Tags: Apple iPhone, Libraries, Central Park, Bagels, Arts and Culture
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Natural Perspectives: 'Rapped' up in new teaching endeavor
Vic must have thought that I didn't have enough to do, what with teaching at the Orange County Conservation Corps, writing this column, and attempting to grow 350 pounds of food this year. He asked me to team-teach his bird and natural history courses...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Interior Policy, Conservation, Natural Resources, History (tv network)
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Shadia: My kind of Islam
Unlike Muslims who were born and raised in America, I thankfully didn't have to go to Sunday school to learn about my religion. Born in the '80s, I grew up in a place where my religion was part of the society and the community in which I lived in. I...Tags: Cairo (Egypt), Religious Texts, Abusive Behavior, Qur'an, Ethics
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Natural Perspectives: The saga of the condor
At the end of the last Ice Age, California condors ranged eastward from the California coast all the way to Texas, Florida and even New York. But by 1800, the range of the condor population had shrunk considerably. The birds lived along the Pacific...Tags: Lead Poisoning, Diseases and Illnesses, History (tv network), Metal and Mineral, West Nile Virus
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Community Commentary: Breathe your way past life's disasters
As a community, we have all been shaken to our core with the Seal Beach mass murder incident. We all deal with stress, pressure, tension and friction on an everyday basis. We have all been in deeply chaotic situations in our life at one time or another,...Tags: Health, Yoga, Behavioral Conditions, Stress, Murder
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