by James Ritch | Mar 31, 2022 | Uncategorized
By David Martin – When we opened our internet tubes this week, out waddled a big old hippopotamus with a mouthful of water hyacinths. We almost had that scene playing out in southern U.S. waterways. Let’s start with the water hyacinth’s role in this near-disaster. ...
by James Ritch | Mar 24, 2022 | Uncategorized
By David Martin – When we opened our internet tubes this week, something came out that made us think, “Wow.” Inspired by Carl Sagan, a noted astronomer who appeared frequently on television and who died in 1996, the cosmic calendar compresses the entire...
by James Ritch | Mar 17, 2022 | Uncategorized
By David Martin – When we opened our internet tubes for cleaning this week, a bunch of strange names came out. We didn’t recognize any of these real or birth names until we matched them with celebrities’ names. We’ll give you the original names and see if you can...
by James Ritch | Mar 11, 2022 | Uncategorized
By David Martin – When we opened our internet tubes for cleaning this week, out poured enough coffee to keep us alert for hours. Compared to tea, which was cultivated 5,000 years ago, coffee is a newcomer, making its way through the Middle East and into Europe some...
by James Ritch | Mar 7, 2022 | Uncategorized
By David Martin – We live in horseshoe crab territory. These flat, rounded sea creatures have a hard shell and five pairs of legs for crawling along the ocean floor — also for crawling out of the ocean and onto beaches where they breed and lay eggs. The male...
