Are we underestimating pigeons? How studying (robot) pigeon navigation changed my mind about their intellect
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 …
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 …
Muddy, the Dunnville Mudcat
10-bore side-lever
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 …
Aspy
Continental Divides
Terrific Trees
Albert Bierstadt, Mountain Brook, 1863