by Audrey Benedict | Oct 3, 2021 | ePostCards
ePostcard #138: Windows on the World “Among the many thousands of things I have never been able to understand, onein particular stands out. That is the question of who was the first person who stood by a pile of sand and said ‘You know, I bet if we took some of...
by Audrey Benedict | Sep 26, 2021 | ePostCards
ePostcard #137: Life in Glass Houses (Part 3) Photo Credit: Courtesy of Hans Hillewaert and Wikimedia Commons. This amazing photograph of a tube-building marine worm (Lagis koreni) from the Oostendebank (Belgium) in the southern North Sea. The photo shows the sand...
by Audrey Benedict | Sep 12, 2021 | ePostCards
ePostcard #136: Life in Glass Houses (Part 2) Scientific Illustration Credit: Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain. Ernst Haeckel’s Kunstformen der Natur (1904), plate 71: Drawings by artist and zoologist Ernst Haeckel of the silica exoskeletons of Stephoidea...
by Audrey Benedict | Sep 4, 2021 | ePostCards
ePostcard #135: Life in Glass Houses (Part 1) Photo Credit: Courtesy of NOAA Okeanos Explorer Program, Gulf of Mexico 2012 Expedition (Wikimedia Commons, Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License). Golden crab (Chaceon fenneri) and a colony of Venus flower...
by Audrey Benedict | Aug 29, 2021 | ePostCards
ePostcard #134: Glass in Nature (Part 9) LIGHTNING STRIKES & FULGURITES “Fulgur” is the Latin word for lightning. Cicero, a philosopher of the Roman Empire era, used the expression “condere fulmina,” meaning “to dig up thunderbolts” —indicating early Romans had...
