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This afternoon we decided to head out from our cabin at Whitefish Point to search for orchids and other interesting plants. First we stopped just north of the mouth of the Tahquamenon River to show Dan Sparks-Jackson the large number of small purple fringed orchids in bloom. In a stretch of sone 20 meters thereContinue reading “Photos from today’s adventure”

I used to teach adult ed courses wherever I was able to between the time I ran my own Natural History tour company and when I started writing for the Ann Arbor News and teaching at Eastern Michigan University. One of the courses that I taught was entitled “A short course on eagles.” I lovedContinue reading “A blast from the past”

The current “Covid-19” pandemic is more appropriately a SARS pandemic, and specifically the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. This is a virus that is very similar to the earlier SARS pandemic around 2004. Interestingly, when I gave my TED talk on epidemics and pandemics in 2017 the first pandemic that I mentioned was SARS. That virus was oneContinue reading “The growing SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic”