OldBioTeacher

Times change. Roles change. That's nature. We’ll try to stay up to date.

Opinions offered and/or shared are mine alone.

[Ted Lieu @tedlieu]

TRUTH: The massive fire in Altadena was not a “forest fire.” The fire had nothing to do with forest management or water policy.

3 reasons the fire exploded:

1. Drought-like conditions
2. Very low relative humidity
3. Santa Ana winds reaching 100 mph

(Video by Stuart Palley)

[Nature @PBSNature]

Follow the saga of three big cat families in "Big Cats, Small World," premiering Wednesday, January 22 at 8/7c on PBS. #NaturePBS

[OldBioTeacher @CityHighAPBio]

@higginized Gone? Who says you have to be gone? Sure! You have to keep watching the kid play, but you're always welcome in IC! Please keep posting, and drop in for a game once in a while. #OnIowa

[American Museum of Natural History @AMNH]

It's #TrilobiteTuesday. New research by Russell Bicknell, a postdoctoral researcher in the Museum’s Division of Paleontology, examined trilobites with extreme injuries. These rare fossils show how trilobites were often prey & how they recovered from failed predation attempts.

[Science Channel @ScienceChannel]

What is this strange red feature? 🔍👀 Hint: it may find its way to your table this week...

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Causal understanding of water displacement by a crow
https://t.co/H4s8SO2NeV

[Kevin Koepnick @kevkoep]

OK. Yeah.

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

• Work hard.
• What others think of you is none of your business.
• It's OK not to have all the answers.
• Experiment, Fail, Learn and Repeat.
• Knowledge comes from experience.
• Imagination is important.
• Do what interests you the most.
• Stay curious.

[OldBioTeacher @CityHighAPBio]

Your day just got better.

You're welcome.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Baby otter in water for the first time, listen

[Nature @PBSNature]

Here's one minute of fur seals to brighten up your day. ☀️ #NaturePBS

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The truth

[by Visualize Value]

[OldBioTeacher @CityHighAPBio]

And more than one platypus are platypuses.

Or platypus.

(Always go with the simpler plural.)

[Nature @PBSNature]

Baby platypus are so vulnerable and clumsy. 🥺

"The Platypus Guardian" premieres Wednesday, October 18 at 8/7c on PBS and the PBS app. #NaturePBS

[OldBioTeacher @CityHighAPBio]

Lots of CHS grads among UI Nursing alumni! #TSTL

[University of Iowa @uiowa]

Undergraduate nursing at the University of Iowa is now ranked #1 among public institutions. Go Hawks!

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

The size of these giant sequoias, for perspective look at the human at the base

📹everchanginghorizon

[Yo-Yo Ma @YoYo_Ma]

This version of Bach’s first cello suite was recorded live in the Great Smoky Mountains. I’ve always thought of Suite No. 1 as “Nature at Play,” so it was a dream to play it with the birds, the trees, and the rushing brook. ▶️ https://t.co/AQn2pIuZQM

[OldBioTeacher @CityHighAPBio]

@RobSandIA And I'm pretty sure that was the specific intent of the law.

"The Legalized Corruption of Iowa Government Act of 2023."

#FreedomToFlourish

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

In the Zhongnan Mountains in china, in a Buddhist temple,

there is this 1,400-year-old ginkgo tree,
https://t.co/XMVJTtSxrJ

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

There are two rules in life:

1) Never give out all the information.

[OldBioTeacher @CityHighAPBio]

Beautiful

[Curiosity @MAstronomers]

A year of sunrises
📸Luca Vanzella

[U.S. Department of the Interior @Interior]

Every summer, adorable pikas gather mouthfuls of wildflowers and grasses, and build giant haystacks to stock up for winter. They’ll lay them on rocks in the sun to dry them out and then store them in their dens. 💐

Photo by NPS