How most insecticides work and to what extent. — Since I grew up in a small rural town, I grew up around farms. My family did not have one but we did grow a lot of our own food every year. I vividly remember watching Papaw pick corn and my grandma, Ganga, pull cucumbers from under the giant prickly…

Stock images are everywhere, so they should showcase every kind of person. — Stock imagery is everywhere. Advertisements, marketing campaigns, billboards, websites, etc. These are photos that are taken by photographers and usually housed by some management company. Generally, if someone wanted to use such photos, they would pay a fee that is given to the artist and/or the company that is managing…

From grammar to astronomy to cosmology and back. — “The Earth”, says American writer and poet Wendell Berry in his Unsettling of America, “is what we all have in common.” I write about the environment a lot. That includes mentioning here and there the largest environment other than space — Earth. In these articles, poems, and napkin scratch, I…

The newspaper Helsingin Sanomat commissioned a free font to exhibit the urgency of climate change based on real climate data. — Polar bears aren’t doing the trick; at least that is what this new font would have you think. To convey the urgency of climate change, Nordic newspaper, Helsingin Sanomat released to the public the “Climate Crisis Font.” In a press release the Editor-in-chief from Helsingin Sanomat, Kaius Niemi, said:

An experiment with human-nonhuman communication. — I imagine they would tell me to fuck off. They would scrunch up on seven legs to throw the spider version of the bird right at my naked body as I look up at the webbed ceiling. Maybe tomorrow. I moved into a two-bedroom in an old brick building last…

According to a state of the science review, gratitude isn’t just nice for sociality, it’s probably good for cardiovascular health! — “I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite — only a sense of existence. Well, anything for variety. I am ready to try this for the next ten thousand years, and exhaust it. How…

Mapping out what multispecies justice might look like — “…with liberty and justice for all.” For many kids that grew up in the US, the Pledge of Allegiance marked the start of the school day. From a young age, American children are taught that justice is a cornerstone of the modern way of life. …

Hung? Hanged? Anyways, here’s what happened. — My grandma used to collect these dishes called Blue Ridge. It was a type of pottery known for its glaze techniques and designs. The brand was established out of a small Tennesee town called Erwin. Every year, we would get up early, grab a quick biscuit at the local shop…

Your guide to the orders of the insect world — It was 11 in the morning and we had just gotten into the woods, crumpled research permit in hand. Me and my partner in crime, er, research, Cassie, were finally putting our plans to work collecting insects in the Pisgah National Forest. …