Blogs about: Aldo Leopold Ish
Featured Blog
Discovering science in all sorts of places
Generally speaking, it is unusual for ‘economic stimulus jobs’ and ‘underwater robots’ to appear in the same sentence. For a month this summer, though, those two concepts went … more →
Analemma
Discovering science in all sorts of places
erikrau wrote 4 months ago: Generally speaking, it is unusual for ‘economic stimulus jobs’ and ‘underwater rob … more →
Unintended success, expected failure
— 2 comments
erikrau wrote 8 months ago: Both the elliptical title of this post and the long distance from its antecedent have the same tooth … more →
magma, ice crystals, land ownership
— 3 comments
erikrau wrote 11 months ago: Well, if I can say something without jinxing it, it appears as though our two weeks of winter may be … more →
(mostly) Northern roundup
erikrau wrote 1 year ago: Kyle Hopkins kicks ASS! Just heard him interviewed on NPR about an Alaska politics article he wrote … more →
trees are not for information?
— 1 comment
erikrau wrote 1 year ago: Rolled back home through the sunrise this morning from an excursion up the coast and into PDX. Rober … more →
Standard Deviation du Printemps
erikrau wrote 1 year ago: The camellias are blooming, and have been for a week or two. There was still a light frost this morn … more →
The turning of the year
erikrau wrote 1 year ago: (written on the morning of 31 Dec 07) The frost is thick on the ground this morning, and it seems to … more →
Not yet the shortest day
— 2 comments
erikrau wrote 2 years ago: Here are some fall views of Corvallis, though they are now a couple of weeks old. It is now distinct … more →
Fall (autumnal) equinox--what does it look like?
erikrau wrote 2 years ago: This year, the equinox was on Sunday 23 September. Unfortunately, I started this post before time, b … more →
Mostly natural
— 1 comment
erikrau wrote 2 years ago: Corvallis is nice. Almost, but not quite, that sort of little-bit-too-perfect, everybody-knows-every … more →
Lunar eclipse from Mauna Kea and a hui hou for me
— 1 comment
erikrau wrote 2 years ago: Well, I’m preparing for my last night of work at the VIS. Apologies for the dearth of posts recently … more →
A lot more things in heaven and earth, recently
— 1 comment
erikrau wrote 2 years ago: Anybody on this island looking for inspiration for literature from the natural world will not lack m … more →
Wonders of nature
— 1 comment
erikrau wrote 2 years ago: Last night at work we had customarily clear skies and a pretty good crowd for the Perseid meteor sho … more →
Seeing In the Dark
erikrau wrote 2 years ago: Just finished watching Seeing In the Dark, a new PBS documentary by Timothy Ferris, based on his boo … more →
Watching: clouds, maps, the watchmen
— 2 comments
erikrau wrote 2 years ago: Well, after the last couple of days at work, I may have to get a t-shirt from these guys after all. … more →
Rara avis, and not much else
erikrau wrote 2 years ago: In the spirit of recommending planetarium software in the last post, I’d like to solicit input … more →
Not just semantics
erikrau wrote 2 years ago: It seems to me that we’re not being totally consistent. The strongest single aggregation of kn … more →
Is reality theory-laden? Read the Vedas
— 2 comments
erikrau wrote 2 years ago: Whether you can observe a thing or not depends on the theory which you use. It is the theory which d … more →
Subject re: Kaselehlia (kah-say-lay-lee-ah) from Pohnpei (pon-pay)!
— 2 comments
erikrau wrote 2 years ago: Hōkūle‛a and Maisu are getting ready to depart Pohnpei for Chuuk today (or tomorrow, since I still h … more →
