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It’s becoming ever more apparent:  We are living through an epic, planetary event and a new civilization is emerging.  Lives are upended.  Livelihoods are at stake.  Travel and freedom are curtailed or eliminated all while technological control expands exponentially.  How to survive -- without despair and anxiety? I suggest you consider Buddha’s “mindfulness.”  You have [...]

On board video of a rocket named "Arcas Born Again," flying on a 38mm. Caesorni reloadable motor. Altitude attained 3642 fee. Max speed 311 mph. Peak accel 7.67 Gs.

Sunset from the porch of a motel called the Sky Ranch Lodge in Sedona, Arizona

When Bonnie and I approached the Arc de Triomphe at the end of the Champs-Elysees, in order to make a time lapse of the the monument, I noticed two scooters.  They had been abandoned by their most recent users, just left on the sidewalk, as part of a new green transportation initiative.  It's happening in [...]

The Peacock Mantis shrimp, Odontodactylus scyllarus, is a burrower, constructing U-shaped holes in the loose substrate near the bases of coral reefs in water ranging from 3 to 40 metres (9.8 to 131.2 ft) deep. O. scyllarus is a smasher, with club-shaped raptorial appendages. An active hunter, it prefers gastropods, crustaceans, and bivalves, and will […]

SEA SNAKE HUNTING. The yellow-lipped sea krait (Laticauda colubrina), also known as the banded sea krait, is a species of venomous sea snake found in tropical Indo-Pacific oceanic waters. We saw several in the Philippines and I made several videos. It spends much of its time underwater in order to hunt, but returns to land […]

ORBICULAR BURRFISH. This is a fairly small fish (4 or 5 inches) as you can tell from the scale of the coral and other organisms in the film. It is in the family of fish generically called the “porcupinefishes.” Some of these blow up like balloons when threatened. It was first described to science in […]

RIBBON EEL JUVENILE. This odd fish is a specialized eel, closely related to the moray eels, called the “Ribbon Eel.” Note the strange nostrils, which are used to attract prey. The juveniles, like this one, are dark, with a yellow stripe on their back. All members of the species are born males, and as they […]

BLACK-SADDLED TOBY. One of my favorite fish — about 1/3 the size of a puffer and quite closely related to the puffers– indeed a miniature puffer of sorts. These are about 4 inches long and therefore one needs to be close to film them. They are in the same family, Tetraodontidae, as the larger puffers […]