Poem – EASE (By John Zedolik)

EASE – By John Zedolik   Snow on the Moore. But the Reclining Figure, 1957, doesn’t care. After all it is only a mantle   upon bronze, lounging there for halfway to a century and more, and has certainly experienced worse   in those years of wavering weather and witnesses such as me who envy the unconcern that brings fortitude […]

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New species in the Himalayas

new species in the Himalayas

A bright blue dwarf snakehead fish that can wriggle around on land for up to four days at a time and a snub-nosed monkey that sneezes when it rains: Those are just two of 211 new species found over the past five years in the Eastern Himalayas, the World Wildlife Federation reports. The region, which spans central Nepal, Myanmar, and […]

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Could we talk with whales?

Human-like sounds made by a captive beluga whale suggest that cetaceans could learn to mimic our voices, and perhaps even converse with us. Researchers at the National Marine Mammal Foundation first noticed in the 1980s that one of their whales was attempting to copy the speech patterns of his handlers and they began recording his human-like vocalizations. Recently, they analyzed […]

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