To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Revive and Restore sounds like a spiritual retreat ministry. In truth, it’s a consortium of biologists and geneticists who have been working for years to clone a number of creatures that used to walk and fly amongst us. Their flagship project is the passenger pigeon, billions of which lived in North America until they… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here In the late 1970s, commercial deep sea fishermen made an amazing discovery off the coast of Australia. Nearly a mile beneath the surface there were vast schools of a large, reddish-orange species of fish. They were delicious. Their filets, which exuded almost no fishy smell or taste, delighted chefs. From a… Read more »
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. The picture above is beautiful. And also disquieting. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin are hurtling toward the surface of the moon in the Apollo 11 Lunar Module on July 20, 1969. Within a few hours, Armstrong will take his “one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” No one suspected at the… Read more »
Eugene Schieffelin meant well. All he wanted to do was honor his favorite playwright. The German-born immigrant – and Shakespeare obsessive – yearned to introduce to America all the birds mentioned in the Bard’s plays. At great personal expense, he imported hundreds of breeding pairs of non-native species and released them in New York City’s Central Park. No one was… Read more »
