Art as Communication

Houseboat, lithograph by Juan Miro by Kevin T McEneaney Neanderthals finger-painted in caves lit by fire, using various plant dyes for clothes: black, red, pink, or shades of ochre. Jewelry…

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Environmental Justice

by Bill Schlesinger As a scientist, I am worried about the term environmental justice.  Scientists measure things, amassing data to test hypotheses and observe trends. Environmental scientists know how to…

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Crescendo: Iberian & Beyond in Lakeville

Job Salazar Fonesca, Camila Parias, Christine Gevert, Ben Harms, Christa Patton, Hideki Yamaya by Kevin T McEneaney Under the direction of Christine Gevert, Crescendo presented the concert Cantos y Suspiros…

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Those Ariel Flyers

Violet-tailed sylph by Kevin T McEneaney Since we are Johnny-come-lately creatures on evolutionary chart of life, we have more wisdom than our feathered friends who have flown billions of years…

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Chinese New Year Concert at Bard College

Final Bow by Kevin T McEneaney At Sosnoff Theater Conductor Jingdon Cai treated the audience to the fourth Chinese New Year Concert with amazing energy and enthusiasm. This concert surpassed…

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A History of Snow

by Kevin T McEneaney has vague beginning, unknowable end, in terms of timeline, and when it’s working, as it is now, one cannot calculate the number of snowflakes falling right…

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The Deep Carbon Cycle

by Bill Schlesinger Within the past decade or so, the global carbon cycle has become the subject of newspaper articles, cocktail party conversation, and public policy.  Most of us are…

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The Poetic Future

Slam X, first AI to win the Nobel Prize in Literature by Kevin T McEneaney Very soon AI robots will write poems, and poets can retire to the tavern where…

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Hawk in Winter

by Kevin T McEneaney When the brittle crunch of ice underfoot rings in your ear on a winter morning as a hawk sits majestically in tree, one knows midwinter freeze…

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Disposal of Plastics

by Bill Schlesinger You don’t have to look far to see where plastic is discarded to the environment.   Roadsides harbor a plethora of plastic bottles; seashores are littered with plastic…

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