by James Ritch | Mar 7, 2022 | Uncategorized
By David Martin – We live in horseshoe crab territory. These flat, rounded sea creatures have a hard shell and five pairs of legs for crawling along the ocean floor — also for crawling out of the ocean and onto beaches where they breed and lay eggs. The male...
by James Ritch | Feb 25, 2022 | Uncategorized
Submitted Article – The Eastern Shore of Virginia Historical Society recently received a copy of the 13th Amendment, the first of the three “Reconstruction amendments” and the one that abolished slavery in the United States. Many think the Emancipation Proclamation...
by James Ritch | Feb 25, 2022 | Uncategorized
By David Martin – When we opened our internet tubes for cleaning this week, out tumbled some staggering statistics about animal drunkenness. (Staggering … get it?) We’re not sure how researchers come up with these ideas. Sitting around the lab, not much to do, and...
by James Ritch | Feb 18, 2022 | Uncategorized
By David Martin – This being the week of Valentine’s Day, we couldn’t resist looking into our internet tubes for some examples — awesome and awful — of extreme romantic gestures. The Taj Mahal in India is considered by some the most beautiful building ever...
by James Ritch | Feb 10, 2022 | Uncategorized
By David Martin – When we opened our internet tubes this week, we were confronted with a fantastic view of what might be making people crazy for cats. (Keep in mind the two definitions of “fantastic”: extraordinarily good OR divorced from reality.) Follow the kitty...
by James Ritch | Feb 3, 2022 | Uncategorized
By David Martin – When the alarm went cling-clang this morning, we opened our internet tubes and found details about something we use every day but have never heard of — ablaut reduplication. According to the Society for Editing, “Ablaut reduplication is the pattern...
