Today, for the third time in a few weeks, I saw one of these sky-borne over a golf course adjacent to a freeway. Around here they’re known as Marsh hawks. These days the ornithologists seem to want to call them Northern Harriers. Each sighting has been a fair distance away. Each time I’ve seen it,… Continue reading »
She was calm, appraising me with ancient eyes. In the midst of a field day I decided to treat myself to a little tortoise time. Every so often I turn off the mammalian mania that powers me through my work in the Mojave. I get off the treadmill of doings and hang out with someone… Continue reading »
This is quite a spectacular, playful movie of seal pups playing with scuba divers: “…we visit the Farne Islands in Northumberland in October ’13. We’ve been visiting here for the last six years to say hello to the seal pups and we’ve never had this much interaction before… Enjoy the show!!!… Filmed on location in… Continue reading »
“What is here is elsewhere. What is not here is nowhere.” – a Hindu proverb Where do really new and productive ideas come from? The answer you perceive is going to depend on who you’re talking to and their cosmology. Or if you’re talking to a group, it’s going to depend upon their shared consciousness…. Continue reading »
Hardshell Labs founder Tim Shields presented Crowd Sourced Conservation™ to over 1,700 people at TEDxBerkeley on Feb 8, 2014, with another 2,100+ watching via Livestream. The day’s theme was, “Rethink. Redefine. Recreate.” Watch it now, including an Internet-controlled rover demonstration, and play Hardshell Labs’ Raven Repel demonstration game. The rover’s video is from Roy Haggard’s iPhone. As… Continue reading »