Here is a story I wrote for National Geographic Russia.
This story appeared both on-line and in the printed magazine in Russia in February, 2019. It’s a similar but shorter version of the English story that ran digitally.
Beekeeping isn’t all honey and sunshine, oh no. There are parts of the experience beekeepers don’t often share. Like when you have to kill the bees and burn them. Our bees got sick, and this story of our attempts to kill them aired on CBC’s Living Out Loud, February 1, 2013.
I’m writing for the Centre for Nanoscience and Quantum Information in Bristol, UK this week, which means I’m learning some quantum physics. The most excellent surprise of the day was coming across Professor Sandu Popescu from the University of Bristol in an on-line video. He studies “the most fundamental aspects of quantum physics,” and aside from explaining some of the basic stuff I needed to know, he left me with a precious gem of inspiration.
Johannes Eyberg Ragnarsson (Eyberg) and his wife Gudlaug Sigurdardottir (Lauga) make farming look easy. When I visited, they had 100 sheep, 30 dairy cows, 32 calves and a few cattle that they… Source: Western Iceland’s land of milk and hay | Meet the North
I’m a Field Correspondent with an Arctic mission, but before I head north I’m looking around home for connections to the higher latitudes. . .
By the time I saw Lycodes paamiuti, an obscure fish dragged from the Arctic Ocean, it had been reduced to a droplet of clear liquid at the bottom of a plastic vial. I was at the finish line of a relay that had started far, far away.
