"The anthropologists got it wrong when they named our species Homo sapiens ('wise man'). In any case it's an arrogant and bigheaded thing to say, wisdom being one of our least evident features. In reality,

"Anatomy is to physiology as geography is to history; it describes the theatre of events." ~ Jean Fernel Welcome to the 140th Daily Field Note! Here you find the top post of the day, one covering each

"Individual identities and national destines were shaped by the tripod of history, geography, and philosophy." ~ Patrick Mendis Welcome to the 139th Daily Field Note! Here you find the top post of the

"It is no coincidence that, on all four sides, in all four corners, the borders of the Roman Empire stopped where wine could no longer be made." ~ Neel Burton Welcome to the 138th Daily Field Note! Here

"There is adventure in finding compelling stories and exploring complex issues in challenging environments, but there is also a responsibility to tell those stories accurately and objectively." ~ K. Lee

I’m sure all of you are already familiar with the eastern gorillas (Gorilla beringei), but what most people don’t realize is just how few of them there are left. This great ape has two distinct subspecies;

"Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it." ~ Terry Pratchett: Welcome to the 136th Daily Field Note! Here you find the top post of the day, one covering each scientific

"I like geography best, he said, because your mountains & rivers know the secret. Pay no attention to boundaries." ~ Brian Andreas Welcome to the 135th Daily Field Note! Here you find the top post of the

"Keeping the box closed just keeps you in the dark, not the universe... but failing to open the box doesn't kill the cat." ~ John Green Welcome to the 134th Daily Field Note! Here you find the top post

"To say that science is logical is like saying that a painting is paint." ~ Leon Cooper Welcome to the 133th Daily Field Note! Here you find the top post of the day, one covering each scientific field

"nothing in Nature is black or white, few solutions are clean and clear; rather, reality, and especially our models of it, possess shades of gray throughout." ~ Eric Chaisson Welcome to the 132nd Daily

"In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient." ~ William James Welcome to the 131st Daily Field Note! Here you find the top post of the day, one covering each

"Truth is not as pompous and romantic as myth ... but it has the immeasurable value of being the Truth." ~ Felix Alba-Juez Welcome to the 130th Daily Field Note! Here you find the top post of the day,

"Eve and the apple was the first great step in experimental science." ~ James Bridie Welcome to the 129th Daily Field Note! Here you find the top post of the day, one covering each scientific field that

"It is curious that the human mind could blindly accept an infinite speed but had reservations to accept a finite one, simply because it was too large!" ~ Felix Alba-Juez Welcome to the 128th Daily Field

Science quote of the day:"The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them" ~ William Lawrence Bragg Welcome to the 127th Daily Field Note!

Science quote of the day:"We are the result of the universe attempting to understand itself" ~ Ronald Mallett Welcome to the 126th Daily Field Note! Here you find the top post of the day, one covering

Science quote of the day:"The history of science is the saga of nature defying common sense." ~ Kedar Joshi Welcome to the 125th Daily Field Note! Here you find the top post of the day, one covering each

Science quote of the day:"By far the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it." ~ Eliezer Yudkowsky Welcome to the 124th Daily Field Note! Here

Science quote of the day:"All we know of the Missing Link is that he is missing - and he won't be missed either." ~ G.K. Chesterton Welcome to the 123th Daily Field Note! Here you find the top post of