Arctic Ice July - Update #4



Once again my focus is on Nares Strait.  This time I want to show how glaciers can be affected indirectly by sea ice.

There are two major glaciers in the Nares Strait - Petermann and Humboldt.  Both are primed for calving.
It has been known for quite some time that exercise promotes neurogenesis, but now a study by Leuner, Glasper, and Gould, published by PLoS ONE this month, claims that the most intimate form of exercise - sexual activity - can produce the same effects.  And better yet- having multiple, repeated sexual experiences results in a greater positive effect than a single experience alone. Added bonus: it reduces anxiety as well.  I love that kind of data!

On my way home last night, motoring the red Jeep down Ohio Rt 53, out in the middle of nowhere, only a bunch of farm fields, oncoming traffic and darkness, I saw a bright flash of light in my left eye. I realized, with a familiar guilty pleasure that a death, and an opportunity to observe bizarre evidence of an incredible natural phenomenon had occurred.



A Firefly had crashed into the proverbial windshield on the freeway. My proverbial windshield.