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2019
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Luminescence

lu·​mi·​nes·​cence | \ ˌlü-mə-ˈne-sᵊn(t)s \ Definition of luminescence : the low-temperature emission of light (as by a chemical or physiological process)also : light produced by luminescence

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2019
01

Starfish Shutdown

This article in today’s New York Times unveils new research about the great starfish die-off Read More

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2018
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2018
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2018
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Half of all Borneo Orangutans gone in 16 years

Worryingly, however, the largest number of orangutans were lost from areas that remained forested during the study period. This implies a large role of killing.” Maria Voigt, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

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2018
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2018
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2018
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2018
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Pacifico

Pacific Ocean, from “Pacifico” Spanish for calm is often a good description of these waters. The Islands in the strait provide the beach protection from the full force of the open ocean.

FEB
2018
09

Beach Crows

There are always lots of crows. Big, fat ass aggressive beach crows. Often you will see a murder of crows around an eagle. Twenty thirty crows circling the eagle and making as much noise as they can. But not coming too close.

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2018
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2018
07

wave

breaker, bending, billow, breaker, coil, comber, crest, crush, curl, curlicue, current, drift, flood, foam, ground swell, gush, heave, influx, loop, movement, outbreak, rash, ridge, ripple, rippling, rocking, roll, roller, rush, scroll, surge, sweep, swell, tide, undulation, uprising, upsurge, whitecap. Wave

FEB
2018
06

Reflections

The refracted property of water ensures that when we look in deep we see shallow. When we gaze down searching for some shadowy profundity below the surface what usually comes back to us is merely us. Jonathan Raban, A Passage to Juneau

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2018
05

as the wave to the pebbled shore

Like as the wave to the pebbled shore, So do our moments hasten to their end, Each changing place with that which has gone before. William Shakespeare, Sonnet 60