Category: Perspectives
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Welcome to the Notes from the Grove providing Liberty Grove residents and visitors tidbits of information about the goings on in Town Government.
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“Why Is It…?” was designed by Dr. Steiner to address readers’ questions about human behavior from a social psychological perspective in order to inform and stimulate dialogue about the ways in which our thoughts, feelings and behaviors are influenced by the presence of other people.
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• Annually, tiny sandpipers fly over 1,100 statute miles from the Canadian Arctic to the coast of South America.
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1,300
Trucks made per day at GM’s only Detroit auto plant in 2003
230
Trucks made per day at the factory today
1985
The last year a Frenchman won the Tour de France bicycle race
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Number of Americans who had won the race as of 1985
10
Number of times an American has won it since (not counting Floyd Landis, stripped of his victory after a positive drug test in 2006)
7
Million acres of forest in the United States killed by beetle infestations
22
Million more acres expected to die over the next 15 years
14,000
Tons of coal used each day to fuel Utah’s Hunter Power Plant
1
Ton, the amount of coal needed to provide one U.
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Welcome to the Notes from the Grove providing Liberty Grove residents and visitors tidbits of information about the goings on in Town Government.
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One of the advantages of writing a column for as many years as I have been writing one is that, when life becomes too complicated to meet a deadline, I can go into my archive of columns and find something to fill the void.
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An Uncommon Father’s Day Journey for a Merganser Family
June is usually the prime time for young birds to be leaving their nests. There are about 85 bird species in North America that use cavities, either holes in trees or man-made nest boxes, in which to lay eggs and rear their young.
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It was around 40 years ago while attending an Inland Bird Banding Association annual meeting, involving bird banders from 22 states and four Canadian provinces, that one of our workshop experts, Chandler Robbins of the U.
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“Why Is It…?” was designed by Dr. Steiner to address readers’ questions about human behavior from a social psychological perspective in order to inform and stimulate dialogue about the ways in which our thoughts, feelings and behaviors are influenced by the presence of other people.
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• Door County has several kinds of carnivorous plants, including the Pitcher Plant, which can be seen at The Ridges Sanctuary. The Pitcher Plant uses odor and color to lure flies and other small insects into its trumpet-shaped leaf, which is lined with downward directed hairs and a sticky secretion.
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Article posted Wednesday, June 24, 2009 5:37pm
Quotable
“We’ve spent a trillion dollars prosecuting the war on drugs. What do we have to show for it? Drugs are more readily available, at lower prices and higher levels of potency. -
Welcome to the Notes from the Grove providing Liberty Grove residents and visitors tid bits of information about goings on in Town Government.
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When I was in high school, the only sport for girls was cheerleading; popularity and good looks were far more important qualification than gymnastic skills.
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Let me say, right from the outset, that everything in this column is true. And allow me to also acknowledge that while you are reading this – at least through the first two thirds – you will believe that I have way too much time on my hands and that I desperately need to find some worthwhile activity to provide meaning to my life.
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Article posted Thursday, June 11, 2009 3:49pm
Item #1: One of the disturbing aspects of our ability to instantaneously transmit information these days is the consequences that arise when the information turns out to be wrong or incomplete.
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“Why Is It…?” was designed by Dr. Steiner to address readers’ questions about human behavior from a social psychological perspective in order to inform and stimulate dialogue about the ways in which our thoughts, feelings and behaviors are influenced by the presence of other people.
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• Nigel Franks, of the University of Bristol in England, is a well-known ant researcher, and he argues that ants can teach each other. “Teaching” can be defined as “one organism modifiying its behavior in the presence of another, at a cost to itself, so another individual can learn more quickly.
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Welcome to the second Notes from the Grove providing Liberty Grove residents and visitors tidbits of information about goings on in Town Government.
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Article posted Thursday, June 11, 2009 3:43pm
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Number of suicides by soldiers at Fort Campbell Army Base this year
56
Number of suicides Army-wide in 2009 to date
20.2
Suicides per 100,000 soldiers in 2008, the highest rate in the Army’s history
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Untangling the web of the Eastern Tent Caterpillar
There is a noticeable outbreak of Eastern Tent Caterpillars (ETC) now in progress in parts of Door County, and the so-called tents of these fascinating creatures are especially visible along roadsides.