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Walter Rothschild’s Museum Legacy
No sketch about museums and species would be complete without including Walter Rothschild. Born into the extremely wealthy banking family... Read More →
No sketch about museums and species would be complete without including Walter Rothschild. Born into the extremely wealthy banking family... Read More →
The cabinets of curiosities of the 1600s and 1700s, scattered across Europe, raised some good questions about the life and... Read More →
Once upon a time, some 80 million years ago, the center of the continent we now call North America was... Read More →
The native shrub called bladdernut apparently used to be quite common around here based on reference to it in early... Read More →
In 1952, British author Daphne du Maurier released a macabre story titled, “The Birds.” The tale was about ordinary birds... Read More →
Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, most commonly known as DDT, became manufacturable in commercial quantities during WWII and quickly became the military insecticide of... Read More →
Supporting Nature Where They Are Like many Iowans, Jeff Klahn and Elisabeth Swain love the outdoors. Both lifelong biologists —... Read More →
IOWA CITY – The derecho last August revealed a need for chainsaw skills. A new course offered by a local... Read More →
In previous notes to you, I have occasionally referred to plants as the master chemists, being especially good at defending... Read More →
How would you like to generate solar energy to run your home or fuel your car? Would you like to... Read More →