The cormorant as hero

by Kevin T McEneaney Cormorants are superb fishers, diving deep into the ocean, rivers, and lakes where they catch fish with their powerful bills. Humans have long employed them to catch fish, and in China and Japan, they still do ...
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Purple martins in flight

by Kevin T McEneaney Wintering down in South America, they make their first appearance in Houston. Males and females jointly decide on nests. A brooding pair will birth three to six birds. * Adult plumage takes two years to appear ...
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Too many songs

by Kevin T McEneaney The Northern Mockingbird, famous for song, is the state bird of Texas, Florida, Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee. Not only can a male imitate birds, they can imitate other animals, an alarm clock, the sound of a car ...
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Greek myth

by Kevin T McEneaney All life that exists is cellular life. There is no other form of life at all. One might say cells are the “atoms” of life. Current theory holds that a lightning bolt may have divided a ...
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What time do you have?

by Kevin T McEneaney Time still remains a puzzle to science because it seems that chance rules all atoms where strange particles bounce inside atoms in an unpredictable arrangement. Scientists prefer determinism. * Sometimes the calculations make no sense like ...
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Thoughts on carbon

by Kevin T McEneaney All life is born from carbon building blocks that are assembled and disassembled. In that sense, your life is not different from a tree, cat, flamingo, or lizard. * Humans tend to think that we are ...
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Look at your fingers

by Kevin T McEneaney In prehistoric times Neanderthals, Erectus, also Homo Sapiens counted with lines on bones, stones, and cave walls. They all found numbers to be essential for trade or calendar calculations. Numbers evolved from fingers on our hand ...
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Rural delight

by Kevin T McEneaney Crocus, emblem of the arriving Spring: purple, yellow, orange trumpeting change to warmer weather despite frigid nights. Hardy in early March, they endure cold weather to blossom in the early sun. Homer compared its color to ...
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Gone Away

by Neil Donnelly Our school was playing in a town near Blackstairs. I got on the bus, then went straight to your house where years before you turned off the light, and from a small movie camera, you shone comic ...
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Bank-side lyric

The high honking of ducks in early March signals return of warmer weather, yet nighttime frost may strike at any night. Each morning, light arrives much earlier with indication of approaching Spring, but there is no certainty till the frogs ...
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