Proving Hitchcock Right, Bird Attacks Are Turning Violent This Summer
Posted: July 17, 2019 Filed under: Art & Culture, Cinema, Health and Social Issues, Mediasphere, U.S. News | Tags: Alfred Hitchcock, Hitchcock, Hitchcockian, Minnesota, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, Nature, red-winged blackbirds, The Birds, Tippi Hedren Leave a comment
Red-winged blackbirds and other species are stepping up divebombing attacks on humans.
Fleming Smith reports: Stephen Vedder used to enjoy peaceful lakeside runs near his Marlborough, Mass., home. This spring, after years of coexisting with an ornery neighbor, those tranquil outings came to an end.
The culprit was a red-winged blackbird.
More than 250 million of the birds live across North and Central America, and this summer some are feeling extra aggressive toward human neighbors—driving them to change walking routes, wear protective headgear or furiously wave arms above their heads as they jog.
“You talk to people about being attacked by birds, and they look at you like you’re crazy,” says Mr. Vedder, a 60-year-old programmer. “This is ‘The Birds’ all over again, but it’s real!”
Many people who have long lived in harmony with the birds have noticed an uptick in their aerial assaults this season. Bird-on-human attacks are growing more common as people encroach on their habitats, says Lori Naumann, information officer at the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. Read the rest of this entry »
Camille Paglia’s Defense of Jordan Peterson, Excerpted from a Longer Statement Sent in Response to Queries from a Brazilian Journalist
Posted: March 29, 2018 Filed under: Censorship, Mediasphere, Think Tank | Tags: Activism, Advocacy journalism, Anthropology, Biology, Brazil, Camile Paglia, Epoca, Jordan Peterson, journalism, Media bias, Nature, New York Review of Books, propaganda Leave a commentFrom Camille Paglia: excerpted from a longer statement sent in response to queries from a Brazilian journalist writing a profile of me for a major Brazilian magazine, Epoca.
Russian Deep Sea Fisherman Becomes Online Hit After Revealing Bizarre Catches
Posted: December 22, 2016 Filed under: Entertainment, Russia, Science & Technology | Tags: Animals, Deep sea, Fish, Nature, Photography, Sea Life Leave a comment
Kunstformen der Natur (Art Forms in Nature) 1899-1904
Posted: September 4, 2016 Filed under: Art & Culture, Science & Technology | Tags: Amphoridea, Ascomycetes, Basimycetes, Diatomea, Ernst Haeckel. Hexacoralla, Graphic, Illustration, Images, Lichenes, Nature, Ophiodea, Phaeodaria, Spumellaria Leave a commentGalápagos Tortoise Pumpkin Party!
Posted: October 29, 2015 Filed under: Entertainment, Food & Drink, Mediasphere | Tags: Galápagos, Galápagos Tortoise, Halloween, Nature, Pumpkin, Tumblr, video Leave a comment[PHOTO] The Uber of the Animal Kingdom?
Posted: May 13, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, Humor, Mediasphere | Tags: Amtrak, Beetles, Frogs, Nature, Photography, Taxicab, Transportation, Uber Leave a comment
[PHOTOS] Micro-Photography of Individual Snowflakes by Alexey Kljatov
Posted: November 26, 2014 Filed under: Art & Culture, Mediasphere, Science & Technology | Tags: Magnification, Micro-Photography, Nature, Photography, Snowflakes Leave a comment
Livin’ in the Kong! The (Mostly) Great Outdoors of Hong Kong
Posted: August 16, 2014 Filed under: Art & Culture, Asia, China | Tags: Asia, Beach, Cheung Chau, China, cityscape, great outdoors, Hong Kong, Lamma, landscape, Nature, outdoors, Photography, Repulse Bay, Sheung Wan, South China Sea, Stanley, Victoria Harbour 4 Comments
Having immersed myself in Hong Kong for about a year now, it seems an apt opportunity to take a moment (or rather, a few posts) to reflect.
Verdant Hong Kong
The most wonderful surprise for me has been the impressive natural elements found throughout HK – providing a beautiful contrast to HK’s more urban and iconic modern developments. Everyone knows HK is packed with glitzy skyscrapers and shopping malls, but even amidst all of that, you stumble across gigantic trees with sprawling roots that snake down city walls.
In the heart of Sheung Wan, the dramatic interplay between the urban and the natural
Parks are full of greenery, the surrounding islands are lush with foliage. Refreshing to view, perhaps all that plant life even helps make up for the occasional smog by pumping some oxygen into this fair city.
The rich green hues of Lamma Island
Lush greenery and massive tree roots at Blake Garden in Sheung Wan
Embarking on a scenic hike on the perimeter of Cheung Chau
One of the things I love most about HK – the blend of east and west, old and new – right in the heart of the city (Blake Garden, Sheung Wan)
Wildcatters Rock the Fracking Revolution
Posted: November 4, 2013 Filed under: Economics, Science & Technology | Tags: Aubrey McClendon, Barnett Shale, Ecology, Harold Hamm, Hydraulic fracturing, Nature, Ronald Goldman, Tom Ward, Wall Street Journal Leave a comment
The hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, revolution has had the effect not only of swelling the domestic supply of gas, but of slashing the domestic price. (Photo: Thinkstock)
The Audacity of Hope Wildcatter Fracking Capitalist Revolutionaries
Michael Barone writes: Capitalism, said economist Joseph Schumpeter seven decades ago, is a process of creative destruction. New inventions, new processes, new methods of organization lead to the creation of new profitable and efficient businesses and to the destruction of old ones unable to compete.
There are few accounts of the creative side of Schumpeter’s phrase more vivid than Fracking: The Outrageous Inside Story of the New Billionaire Wildcatters, a new book by Wall Street Journal writer Gregory Zuckerman.
For years politicians, policy experts and corporate executives have tried to reshape American energy policy and development. They have operated on a series of assumptions seemingly based on experience and logic.
