A few years ago, PBS released an exceptional seven-hour NOVA series, Genius, an exploration of the lives and works of Newton, Galileo, Darwin and Einstein, whose insightful minds have carried humankind on […]

As you consider the comments that follow, first ask yourself:

Can you imagine where our country would be today if George Washington or the Constitutional Convention had been swayed by opinion polls or pressured […]

Not all of the environmental information coming from Florida is discouraging. We do have an ecological success story! Our National Emblem, the Bald Eagle. After almost 40 years of concerted conservation […]

Deep in the bald cypress forest of the Corkscrew Swamp in South Florida is Lettuce Lake. Its surface is covered with a mat of soft green floating vegetation known as “water lettuce.” The water lettuce provides […]

Kumchubchumbe spoke but one word of English during our visit – “Chicago!” His eyes sparkled from the flickering flames of his cook fire, as his fingers danced over the tall buildings in the tattered black and […]

At the far end of town where the Grickle-grass grows and the wind smells slow-and-sour when it blows and no birds ever sing excepting old crows … is the street of the Lifted Lorax.
From The Lorax by Dr. […]

I have a confession. I am neurotic. A neurotic book buyer, a neurotic book reader. As Thomas Jefferson once put it, “I cannot live without books.”

Some of us get our kicks from a cliff-hanging ball game, […]

December 3, 2011.

Rick Atkinson cut back the throttle on our Zodiac and we glided to our landing on Half Moon Island in the Southern Shetland Islands a few miles north of the Antarctic Peninsula. I swung my […]

There’s a mystical land somewhere in the waters of the Mediterranean where the soothing music of the lyre is buoyed by a gentle breeze and life goes on forever. You may recall the stories from ancient Greece […]

Contagion isn’t on the Oscar list, but it’s a great movie. Bill Moyers discussed the movie in his February, 26, 2012 broadcast, Are Immunization Exemptions Fair to Us All?. The program explores the distrust […]

Back in 1983 I took what I thought would be a 6-months leave of absence from my law firm to “save” a troubled bank, Park Bank of Florida. But both the 6-month time period I allotted for the task and the idea […]

June 11, 2004
When I met Bill Garnick in 2004 he had just turned 90 – and last we heard, he’s now 97 and still going strong. Joanie and I, with our kids and grandkids, were riding and roping and having a great […]

The Cheetah is the oldest of the big cats, going back some 3 million years. 20,000 years ago Cheetahs were common throughout much of the Northern Hemisphere, including North America as well as Asia, Europe and […]

Hi, my name is Sammy. I’m a Leopard Seal. Home’s in the Gerlache Strait off the Antarctic Peninsula. I don’t normally put much faith in “talk with the animals” stuff. I understand a few years ago, a fellow […]

There’s a problem on North Carolina’s coastlines. Despite denials of climate change and warming and allegations of “hoax” from several Congressmen and Presidential Candidates, the seas, largely stable for the past 5,000 years, are rising and Carolina’s coastline is in retreat. Three islands are now submerged. The rising seas, exacerbated by…[Read more]