I can’t resist a response to Kathy Sierra’s Five(ish) Things I Don’t Know About You. And at the end, you’ll find a question I want you to answer!
1) What’s the most fun work you’ve ever done, and why?
The volunteer work I’ve done as a hawk watcher and telemetrist with Golden Gate Raptor Observatory. [...]
Christmas Bird Count is a gift to critter geeks who prefer tromping around the outdoors instead of the local mall.
The Christmas Bird Count was founded in 1900 as an alternative to the “side hunt” — a Christmas day activity where people would split into two teams and see which one could bring back the most [...]
What happens to the sport of dog sled racing when the climate has warmed enough to make snow unreliable? Welcome to dryland dog racing, where top sled dogs pull carts on wheels instead of sleds on runners.
The New York Times article, Answering the Call of the Wild, Minus the Snow by Stephen Regenold describes [...]
What a great story! From SFGate: Ice Age clues near Bodega: Scientist thinks mammoths rubbed coast rocks 12,000 years ago. Edward Breck Parkman, the senior archaeologist for the California Department of Parks and Recreation, has quite a bit of support for his theories that these rocks on the Sonoma coast were polished smooth by [...]
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