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Brewer's: Painter of Nature

Remi Belleau, author of Loves and Transformations of the Precious Stones. One of the Pleiad poets is so called, and well deserves the compliment. The Shepherd's Calendar of Spenser is…

Bioterrorism: Weaponizing Nature

Bioterrorism: Weaponizing NatureBioterrorism: Weaponizing NatureExcerpted from The Complete Idiot's Guide to Dangerous Diseases and Epidemics © 2002 by David Perlin, Ph.D., and Ann Cohen. All rights…

Name That Natural Disaster

There are many instances of natural disasters that affect the human populations of the world, our infrastructures, and our belongings. Can you name some of the most well-known and devastating…

Natural Disasters in Texas

Source: iStockFrom blistering wildfires and devastating hurricanes to snow blizzards and flash floods, Texas has it all. The wide range of natural disasters that happen in the Lone Star State is…

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature I

Nature IWinters know Easily to shed the snow, And the untaught Spring is wise In cowslips and anemonies. Nature, hating art and pains, Baulks and baffles plotting brains; Casualty and…

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature

NatureIA subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the farthest brings; The eye reads omens where it goes, And speaks all languages the rose; And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts…

John McCain: Maverick Nature

  Engineering the "Straight Talk Express"   by Beth Rowen   This article was posted on October 15, 1999. McCain is a three-term senator, Vietnam veteran, and straight-talker. "We…

Brewer's: Habit is Second Nature

The wise saw of Diogenes, the cynic. (B.C. 412-323.) Shakespeare: “Use almost can change the stamp of nature” ( Hamlet, iii. 4). French: “L'habitude est une seconde nature.” Latin: “Usus…