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...
by Audrey Benedict | Aug 22, 2021 | ePostCards
ePostcard #133: Glass in Nature (Part 8) Photo Credit: Popigai diamonds courtesy of The Siberian Times (siberiantimes.com). DIAMONDS IN THE ROUGH Throughout its history, Earth has been repeatedly hit by large meteorites. Of the more than 60,000 meteorites that have...
