Kate Kearns
Kate Kearns is spending the summer as an intern at the National Audubon Society. As a senior next year at Trinity high school on New York City's Upper West Side, Kate will be an editor-in-chief of her school newspaper and captain of her Varsity Softball team. Despite many gasps of horror from her high school peers, Kate participated in a three week wilderness expedition in Oregon last year, where she enjoyed long hikes and mountain summits. For once, Kate saw and heard only birds in the sky for days on end instead of jumbo jets or helicopters. She hopes her work at Audubon will inspire her to go on more birding excursions.Kate Kearns's blog
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| Photo by Lynn Betts, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. |
While I always thought turtles were one of the cuter reptiles, I never knew they had such a powerful and sexual side. But when their mating practices delayed my flight last Wednesday from JFK to Chicago for forty five minutes, I realized I had severely underestimated the force of their libido. According to FAA spokesman Jim Peters, seventy eight turtles were sitting on a JFK runway on the morning of July 8, delaying some flights for over an hour and a half.
In a recent interview with John Harwood on CNBC, a fly interrupted President Obama’s train of thought. In one quick movement, he killed it and said, “Where were we? That was pretty impressive, wasn’t it? I got the sucker.” The swatting has generated attention from the media at large and on YouTube—some videos have garnered more than 62,000 hits— causing people to question Obama’s animal rights ethics and even provoking some to learn more about a fly’s anatomy.
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