18 JAN 2012 by ideonexus The Laws of Anthropology
Anthropologists need a firm and accurate grasp of history before they can begin to induct laws from it.
Folksonomies: natural history,anthropology

06 JAN 2012 by ideonexus The Appalachian Mountains as the "Wreck of the World"
July 1747, Ben Franklin wrote to Jared Eliot, a Connecticut clergyman about the Appalachian mountains, where he found sea shells mixed in with the dirt and concluded that the mountains were the Earth after a cataclysm.
Folksonomies: founding fathers,natural history,mountains,earthquakes,earth science

30 AUG 2011 by ideonexus Study Nature for Truth, Not Usefulness
Practical people will take the truth and make something productive of it.
Folksonomies: nature,truth,natural history,study

30 AUG 2011 by ideonexus A Great Summary of Taxonmy
Classes, orders, families, genera, and species are defined for their defining classification method.
Folksonomies: history,taxonomy,natural history

10 JUN 2011 by ideonexus Study nature to find your voice
Natural History as a genre thrives because the variety of voices contributing to it.
Folksonomies: nature,writing,naturalism,natural history

08 JUN 2011 by ideonexus Tracking the Trails of Ancient Glaciers
By tracing the scratches on boulders, it is possible to trace the direction a glacier carried them from, and find their source.
Folksonomies: natural history,glacier,boulder

08 JUN 2011 by ideonexus Everything Comes from Stars
The Big Bang to the formation of stars, which formed the elements crucial to life. It takes 1,000 calories of sunlight to evaporate one thimbleful of water.
Folksonomies: nature,wonder,natural history

08 JUN 2011 by ideonexus The Evolution of Photosynthesis
If a microorganism did not evolve this trait, then early life would have quickly consumed all the naturally occuring sugars in the ocean.
Folksonomies: evolution,natural history