Medea escapes Jason on a chariot led by fire-breathing dragons (painting by Charles-Andre van Loo, 1759) In Greek mythology Medea, the enchantress and princess of Colchis, killed her two sons out of revenge for her lover deserting her. She also lends her name to paleontologist Peter Ward’s hyp…
Each living thing gives its life to the beauty of all life, and that gift is its prayerDouglas Wood Sun gleams through freshly fallen snow on the forest, ON (photo by Nina Munteanu) . It was a bright mostly sunny day in mid-January, shortly after a snowfall had covered everything w…
Wild apple tree in Kawarthas, ON (photo by Nina Munteanu) We don’t normally think of eating or wearing water. But that’s exactly what we’re doing when we bite into an apple (which uses 125 litres of water) or put on our favourite pair of jeans (which uses more than 7,600 litres of water to ma…
Various lichen crowd over the gnarly bark of a red maple tree on a wet winter day, ON (photo by Nina Munteanu) . After my fence post lichen study, I felt compelled to look for lichen everywhere else in my neighbourhood. The most prevalent surfaces I encountered during my walks were trees th…
