Growing Grass

Growing Grass

What is so amazing about grass?  Grass is a seemingly unimportant plant that is often ignored and taken for granted. When examined we observe that the stem is round and mostly hollow except at the joint or node. This stem lies in the sheath that is open part of the...
Frozen Feet

Frozen Feet

Why don’t the chickadee’s feet freeze when it is minus 30oF and how can ducks spend the whole day in icy water and not get frostbite?  It seems that birds are never bothered by cold feet. If we were to run outside in the winter with bare feet, we would have...
He Made the Stars Also

He Made the Stars Also

What do we truly know about our universe?  Mankind has entire libraries filled with books about the stars, however there is not an adequate explanation of how one could form! The Bible is not a textbook on astronomy, although when it references scientific subjects, it...
Insect Inspiration

Insect Inspiration

Have you considered the timber beetle larva?  This thumb-sized insect eats trees by slicing through wood fiber with its mandibles, or jaws. That’s what Oregon logger Joseph Buford Cox (1905 – 2002) realized when he was taking a rest break from chopping wood. He...
Microscopic Power Plants

Microscopic Power Plants

How complex are microscopic organisms? Scientists have discovered a bacterium called the Rhodoferax ferrireducens that is capable of producing an electric current as it transforms natural sugars into other complex biological products. It does this by transferring...