Jupiter, Again.

From the frantic firing of billions of neurons in your brain comes your unique and coherent experience of reading these words. The world is full of such emergent phenomena: large-scale patterns and organization arising from innumerable interactions between component parts. And yet there is no agreed scientific theory to explain emergence. The New Math of …

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Carl Rungius Raisonné

  Join us for a special First Sunday THIS SUNDAY (7/7) at the Museum. We will be premiering two of our new Bisoncast films, “The Lost Painting: Carl Rungius Raisonné, Part I” & “The Rungius Legacy: Carl Rungius Raisonné, Part II” in the auditorium. Bisoncast is an online video series that provides free access to …

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Terns

  There are Roseate Terns here and there worldwide, but in Canada the absolute best place to see them is in my home village of West Pubnico-specifically Dennis Point wharf where you can see them point blank as they dip and dive for fish. The colony on North Brother is doing very well, with 72 …

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Amazing video and story.

The middle of a hunt from this winter: the video starts with a seemingly exhausted, panting deer that collapses in the creek. The deer drinks for a few minutes before moving on. Five minutes later, two wolves reach the creek. The wolves are also panting. They drink for a little while and then continue the …

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