Saturday, February 27, 2021

Once with an abundance of beavers, now with an abundance of people: Boston's Jamaica Pond

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Map showing a section of the Emerald Necklace including Jamaica Pond   Jamaica Pond is an ice-age kettle pond , or kettle hole —today, pa...
Sunday, January 31, 2021

Frequently lampooned: Harvard's Lampoon Castle

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  Cartoonish round-tower of  Harvard's beloved Lampoon Castle (End of January 2021) S tanding my first time in front of the Lampoon Cast...
Saturday, November 28, 2020

Scituate: an Irish mossing town in New England got its name by spell-changing the Native American word of a local brook

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Satuit Brook widening along its flow into Scituate Harbor The seacoast town of Scituate in Plymouth County , Massachusetts , is known for i...
Monday, September 7, 2020

Why we have Guppies and not Peters

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Wilhelm Karl Hartwig Peters (1815-1883) was a German naturalist and explorer, who, in 1859, described fish he discovered in Venezuela, whic...
Sunday, April 5, 2020

Original name of the BU Bridge: Cottage Farm Bridge

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Boston University Bridge seen from BU Sailing Pavilion (Early March, 2020) BU Bridge is short for Boston University Bridge . The Bosto...
Wednesday, February 19, 2020

A cross-linguistic jellyfish vocabulary

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Any language used by coastal and seafaring people can be expected to have one or more words for jellyfish, since jellies are found in ocean...
Sunday, February 16, 2020

What are Lessepsian migrants?

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Lessepsian migrants are invasive marine species that are “traveling” via the Suez Canal by water flow or maritime transport from the Red...