Skulls

        I was lost, but I understood the forest.  The blood that ran in me was not urban.  I almost said not human.  It had come from other times and a far place.

                                                                                                                                                     -Loren Eiseley, The Star Thrower       

Here are forty-one pictures of the myriad skulls currently on display at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco.  Take a gander, you may find a long lost relative or two.

Siphonophore

There are environmental worlds on earth every bit as weird as what we may imagine to revolve by far-off suns.

                                                                                                                                                -Loren Eiseley, The Star Thrower

This is How I Feel Sometimes

Right-click to read an excerpt from Richard Heinberg's Powerdown.  "This is How I Feel Sometimes" is a humorous parable which summarizes the environmental problems man faces on Earth.  

Running Low on Sand in Fort Lauderdale

In this New York Times article, Lizetta Alavarez writes how, "Constant erosion from storms and tides and a rising sea level continue to swallow up chunks of beach along Florida’s Atlantic coastline."

Erosion at Haulover Beach Park in Miami-Dade County.   Photo: Angel Valentin for The New York Times    
 

Carl Sagan breaks down "Abiogenesis"