Tag: Natural History

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May 27, 2014

Happy Birthday, Rachel Carson!

Today is the 107th birthday of Rachel Carson. Unfortunately she died too young, at only 56 years old, of cancer. Ironically one of her greatest accomplishments was helping to ban agricultural use the synthetic pesticide DDT, which was later discovered to be linked to breast cancer. Her accomplishments are too numerous to describe in this […]
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May 27, 2014

Great Summer with Dragonflies Galore!
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May 6, 2014

More thoughts on “(Re)extinction”

Thanks to Brad Lepper for bringing this article in the New Scientist to my attention. This is another opinion related to my recent blog about the debate concerning natural history museums collecting specimens. See this New Scientist article here.  Collecting of specimens for scientific research is an incredibly small percentage of the number of animals […]
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April 25, 2014

“Avoiding (Re)extinction” – Museums and the collecting of specimens
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April 7, 2014

Perfect timing at Fort Hill
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March 13, 2014

Might Spring Suddenly Explode?

Written by Curator Emeritus Bob Glotzhober The Minnesota author and naturalist/philosopher, Sigurd Olsen, wrote (paraphrased here as close as I can remember) "one can only truly appreciate spring after one has experienced a northern Minnesota winter." Ohio (and much of the US) has come close to that this winter so perhaps we'll really, really appreciate […]
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March 6, 2014

“All natural” at the Ohio Historical Center!
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February 19, 2014

Bob Glotzhober receives the “Naturalist” award!
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February 11, 2014

Running in circles!
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February 10, 2014

OSU’s Museum of Biodiversity crawling with life!