Hands Up or I’ll Fill You Full of Non-Toxic Gilding Metals
The BBC reports that Scandinavian militaries are completely switching their bullets from lead slugs to a greener concoction (likely copper and tin) that is just as deadly to the enemy but kinder to the...
View ArticleGuns, Game, and Control: Who Are America’s Hunters?
Since the Newtown massacre I have heard repeatedly that one necessary act for advancing gun control is to get “hunters” (or at least rural types) on board. That line of thought has been boosted by...
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Getting the Lead Out of Both Dumps and Ammo
The old rejoinder in the gun control debate that “guns don’t kill people, bullets kill people” takes on added resonance when the lead from ammo that didn’t get plucked out by surgeons remains in the...
View ArticleThe Strange Mystery of the Alien Bears of Bulgaria
Somewhere in the bucolic forests of Bulgaria’s Rhodope mountains, several brown bears (Ursus arctos) are wandering around with genetic material that looks very different from the DNA of the rest of the...
View ArticleWriting From the Woods: Surveying the Literature of Opting Out
“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike.” —John Muir In 1869, a young man named John Muir...
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Did Humans Train Dogs to Hunt Woolly Mammoths?
Fido might be great at fetching tennis balls, or shotgun-wounded ducks, but one anthropologist is proposing that the earliest domesticated canines were trained to go after something substantially...
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Shooting a Mountain Lion
In a very charming video about mountain lion safety put together by the Colorado Division of Wildlife, a park ranger reassures hikers that the risks they face in lion country are very low. “The...
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