by Susan Hastings | Science
Shakespeare wrote, “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” But what about a hurricane? A Hurricane by any other Category. Is it still a hurricane? We classify hurricanes by wind speeds, that’s it....
by Susan Hastings | Science
I didn’t get a filter ordered for my telescope in time for the 2017 total eclipse. So I built the standard viewing box and the results were totally underwhelming. Then I noticed the light coming through the trees. And the trees will take us to an Otherworldly...
by Susan Hastings | Science
In 2006, former Vice President Al Gore release his book and video, “An Inconvenient Truth.” It brought to the world’s attention the problem of global warming. Since then, we have had to change the term to “climate change,” because people took the term...
by Susan Hastings | Science
We’ve heard a lot lately about draining swamps, and I’m a little tired of it. A swamp is rather loosely defined as an intermittently wet lowland dominated by trees. But it is a richly diverse and viable ecosystem that is an integral part of virtually every biome and...
by Susan Hastings | Science
Healing the earth means conserving and protecting fresh water – that means saying no, to leaking pipelines and fracking. There is no way to safely fracture formations. Fracking fluids can get into aquifers and groundwater supplies contaminating them with...
