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Daisy Parrotfish
SOMEWHERE IN THE reefy waters of the Indo-Pacific, a daisy parrotfish (Chlorurus sordidus) is feasting on coral. She crunches up the hard knobs of calcium carbonate with her tough beaklike teeth, Continue reading
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10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know about Ice
Despite more than 150 years’ worth of study and experimentation, no one really knows why ice is slippery. More speed skating world records have been broken in Utah Continue reading
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How Not to Get Stuck in a Tar Seep
13. Learn how to identify one. Nicknamed “death traps,” tar seeps are ghostly pools of raw oil that creep up from tectonic fractures and spread across the earth like tacky flypaper. Continue reading
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6 Words I’m Trying Not to Use to Describe Land
Primeval Something about the land, usually a forest—giant trees dripping with moss, crusted with lichen, a tangled understory dense with growth—conjures the word primeval. But I have learned this is inaccurate. Continue reading
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More Right
MY AUNT LOU told me once that it is easier for our people to believe in magic than it is for others. As soon as she said it, I knew Continue reading