Author: Amy Law
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Maui: Part Two
When my husband and I weren’t watching whales, we were tooling around the island. At one point, we found some green sea turtles. According to the locals, they’d hauled themselves out on the beach to warm up. One had encountered a shark, the only predator of adult sea turtles besides humans. One of the…
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Maui Part One: Humpback Whales
My husband and I just got back from the fabled island of Maui, Hawai’i. We went to see humpback whales, sort of a continuation of our whale-watching trip to Alaska 18 months ago.Alaskan whales But we ended up enjoying much, much more. The humpback whales in Hawai’i come from feeding grounds in colder waters, like…
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Happy Pi Day
Today is Pi Day: 3.14 — that never-ending irrational number that we couldn’t do without. Enjoy your Pi!
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What went into this mutt?
We’ve been having a lot of fun with Tegan, the new puppy. We play with her constantly. And between ourselves, we try to guess what breeds of dogs her parents were. She is long and low. The gene for short-leggedness in dogs is their version of dwarfism. It is found in only a few breeds,…
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Puppy Play
We got a new puppy in November, and it has been a pleasure to watch her as she grows. We named her Tegan, which is a Welsh term of endearment that means “number one girl”, “sweetie”, “honeybunch”. She is a Mutt. Based on what she looks like and how she acts, her ancestry probably includes…
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Night-glowing Clouds
I saw these clouds outside my back door last night, just as the sun was setting. I think they are noctilucent clouds — nocti means nigh and lucent means glowing or shining. Noctilucent clouds form when there is a lot of ice particles from water vapor extremely high in the atmosphere.Mysterious Glowing Clouds Appear…
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Sharp-shinned hawk misses flicker for lunch
The gregarious band of little bushtits took off in a burst of feathers and cheeping alarm calls. I looked up just in time to see a Northern flicker shoot out of the top of a tree, with a sharp-shinned hawk in hot pursuit. Luckily for the flicker, the hawk had made its move too soon,…
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Go Vote!
In 2012, for the last presidential elections, 56.5% of eligible voters cast a ballot (All Races). That means about every other citizen in the United States voted. Half threw their votes away. They decided not to participate. On Tuesday, we will decide what direction we want our country to go. You have a chance to…
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Rocky Weekend
My husband and I spent last weekend in Rocky Mountain National Park. We took a hike up North Moraine, along the Ypsilon Lake Trail. About a mile up, I stopped to photograph this good looking male hairy woodpecker. I was really glad to find him. I had always wondered if I was correctly identifying the…
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Apologies
I have just been made aware that a presidential candidate’s campaign has advertised on my blog. His views are the opposite of mine, and I will not be a vehicle for his venom. To remedy this situation, I just paid WordPress a fee to remove all advertising from my blog. I am sorry to have…
Amy Law, Science Geek 