Curiosity Cabinet
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3 Curious Benefits of the Merlin App
There’s a tendency for seasoned birders to turn their noses up at Merlin, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s extremely popular bird identification app. “It’s not 100% accurate, you know.” “Don’t trust it.” “Always…
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3 Curious Back Alley Projects
There’s something clandestine about back alleys, as if they provide an opportunity to peel back the streetfront facade to reveal the real city underneath. Back alleys aren’t just unswept pavement and places for…
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3 Curious Collections of Photographs
There’s something almost soothing about collections of photographs that allow us to explore an everyday subject in a new way. Here are three photographers that let us see things in new ways. First…
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3 Curious Digital Nature Collections
There is something extremely satisfying about a digital collection of natural objects. I think it takes me back to that desire to understand and catalogue the natural world. Today, of course, it’s possible…
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3 Curious Embroidered Tapestries
I have been fascinated by the Bayeux Tapestry ever since I first learned about it, not so much because of the story it tells, but by its sheer scale. The Bayeux Tapestry –…
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3 Curious Things that Glow in the Dark
When you think of things that glow in the dark, you probably aren’t thinking about flying squirrels or platypuses, but they are a couple of more than 125 different species of mammals that…
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3 Curious Things About Wildlife
I think I could do a post every month that was just interesting facts or news about wildlife, but I will attempt to mix it up a little. Here are three, not really…
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3 Curious Things About Small Scale Architecture
Since I’m reducing the overall number of posts for this blog going forward, one of the things I want to do is make this part of the blog more robust. Obviously, it’s easier…
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Three Things I’m Curious About #54
Cats think they’re perfect and an evolutionary biologist explains why they might actually be right. Evolutionarily speaking, cats have evolved a set of characteristics that work exactly as they need them to. But…
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Three Things I’m Curious About #53
I love a story about the rediscovery of a species that had been considered extinct. Usually those discoveries don’t happen because a farmer catches a long lost animal in a trap, but that’s…
