What is beaver-based restoration and how can it help us? A Science Pub lecture with Meg Waller, Environmental Scientist, and Restoration Program Manager with Bark. About the Lecture Climate change […]
Insects are essential to life on Earth, but insect populations are in trouble. However, there is hope in our own yards. There are many things you can do to make a real difference in improving insect biodiversity right where you live. Our gardens can host an astonishing variety of insect life—if we provide the habitat, […]
A special Science Pub lecture in concert with the release of Dr. Prescod-Weinstein’s newest book, The Edge of Space-Time: Particles, Poetry, and the Cosmic Dream Boogie. About the Lecture Drawing […]
There is no animal we’re more aware of having as neighbors as the American Crow. Loud, ubiquitous, and immediately recognizable, most Portlanders will see crows every day. And yet, there are few animals as mysterious and captivating. * If I feed crows, will they bring me shiny presents? * Why are crows so intelligent, and […]
A moth, a flea, a mosquito… Insects are seldom mentioned in history texts, yet they significantly shaped human history. For example: * Silkworms (moths) have been farmed to produce silk for millennia, and the Silk Road created a history of empires and cultural exchanges of ideas, philosophies, and religions. * Fleas and lice carried bacteria […]
A vast and delightfully diverse journey through the sex lives of animals. For too long, science has ignored and obscured the multiplicity of animal sexual behavior. With vivid, often funny, and always beautiful watercolor illustrations in a work of graphic nonfiction, artist Perrin Roosevelt Ireland examines how animals express and have sex. Go on a […]
Every winter, the amphibians of northwest Portland enter a real-life game of Frogger. Most drivers on U.S. Route 30 never notice the small, slimy critters leaping across the asphalt on rainy nights. But for northern red-legged frogs, the stakes are high—reach the water to lay their eggs, or die trying. In response to their plight, […]
As the climate emergency worsens and biodiversity shrinks, we humans get used to it—we adapt, we normalize, we forget. Scientists call this “shifting baseline syndrome” and warn that it’s why we are increasingly sleepwalking toward disaster. In this positive and inspiring manifesto, the environmental activist and longtime editor-in-chief of *Sierra* magazine Jason Dove Mark offers […]
