First off, I would like to apologize for not posting as recently as I would have liked to on LabSpaces. I've been with LabSpaces blogs since the very beginning, and I would never stop posting ... but, life got in the way. Over the past few months, I've been busy writing and working, and I let a few things fall away. So, I apologize for my absence,...

Parents screamed, children cried and I looked on in horror at the scene unraveling around me in the Shamu tank at the San Diego Sea World in February 2010. Death was up to his usual tricks. The stadium was packed and the trainers were putting the whales through their paces. Birds circled above, eyeing the fish the trainers were using as rewards for...

The past few days have been very interesting and filled with questions and mysteries, but the surprising thing is that none of these events happened while I was awake. For the past four nights, I have experienced some of the craziest dreams in recent memory. Four nights ago, I had a dream that I hunted poisonous snakes in my den using nothing but...

  Today, the second Sunday on May, is Mother’s Day. Right now, as you are reading this, families all over the world are celebrating this holiday in a multitude of ways.  Kids that are all grown up may be celebrating with a dinner or breakfast, while new mothers might just be treated to a breakfast in bed (where it Is the thought that counts, not the...

It may have been a while since my last post, but man do I have some good stuff to share with you! Earlier this month, Conservation International’s Rapid Assessment Program (RAP) selected the 20 most unique species that the program has found. According to the release, the species shown in the pictures below are "some of the most biologically surprising,...

  Have you ever stopped to consider just how much you learned in school? If you ever take the time to really stop and appreciate it, there is a huge amount! In school, I learned all about the hidden sub-texts in Macbeth and King Lear, how to write a proper essay, and how the universe was formed. I remember how the Canadian and US judicial systems...