Quigley's Cabinet

CHRIS QUIGLEY, REST IN PEACE, 1963-2018 It is with a heavy heart that we say goodbye to Chris who "joined the great majority" on January 22 after a 30-year battle with MS from complications of ...

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Well, folks, it has come to this. The strength in my arms continues to decline and it has reached the point where posting to my blog is hit or miss. My strength begins to wane about 11 AM , but t...

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Scientists at the University of Nottingham have found that a 1,000-year-old Anglo-Saxon treatment for eye infections works as an antibiotic against one of today’s most notorious bacteria, Me...

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Before Eli Thompson was born in Mobile, Alabama, U.S., his father joked that he hoped he wouldn't pass on his nose to his new son. Little did he expect that the child would be born with no nos...

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Scientists from the University of Massachusetts Amherst have just conclusively proven that the 4.2 ounce (12 g) white-throated, black-capped blackpoll warbler flies non-stop the 1,700 miles (...

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"I was so mad at myself! I thought I had brought back the wrong frog ," says biologist Katherine Krynak, who was surveying amphibian species in the Reserva Las Gralarias in Ecuador. The mar...

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NASA astronaut Scott Kelly has just taken off for a yearlong stay on the International Space Station . He will perform sophisticated testing on himself and the results will be relayed so that ...

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Diver Josh Stewart was trying to photograph the belly of a 15' (4.6 m) manta ray off the coast of Peru as part of a long-term identification project for Manta Trust when he found himself bein...

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A one in a million birth has occurred in Dekalb, Texas, U.S. The actual odds of a cow giving birth to four live calves is one in 11.2 million, but that is exactly what has happened to a run-of...

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Two tiny examples of colorful Indonesian "vampire crabs" have been identified as new species, even though they have been known in the aquarium trade for many years. With bright purple or stunn...

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National Geographic contributing photographer Luciano Candisani set out to capture on film the legendary albino tapir said to roam the rainforest of southeastern Brazil. While unsuccessfully s...

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For reasons unknown, the rainbow lorikeets patronizing a backyard bird feeder north of Brisbane, Australia, have become carnivores. Instead of partaking in the seed meant for vegetarian birds ...

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When I went to France in 1999 with my friend Cris, we went out of our way to see the famed Mont Saint-Michel, driving up the causeway from the mainland to the entrance even though I couldn't c...

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A few years ago, Amsterdam couple Rob Hagenouw and Nicolle Schatborn started a food truck they call "Keuken van het Ongewenst Dier " (“The Kitchen of the Unwanted Animal”) to sell the mea...

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Some 230 million years ago, a crocodilian standing on its back legs at over 9' (3 m) tall vied for food with dinosaurs in what is now North Carolina, U.S. Other smaller animals in the crocodil...

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A Yale University team has developed a new method to identify malaria in the bone marrow of ancient human remains. It is the first time researchers have been able to establish a diagnostic, hu...

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"For the most part they are a gentle giant ," says television host Jeff Corwin (UPPER RIGHT) of the giant stingray caught in Thailand’s Mae Klong River. With the help of a team including v...

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A 7-member team attempted to summit Mexico's highest mountain, Pico de Orizaba, In 1959, but they were overtaken by an avalanche. Four of the climbers were killed, but only one body was recove...

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Dating back 7,000 years – earlier than the Egyptians, the oldest mummies in the world are those of the Chinchorro , who lived along the coasts of northern Chile and southern Peru. Hundreds o...

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After 100 years, the hut and all of its contents left behind by the ill-fated Robert F. Scott expedition still stands like a time capsule in Antarctica. The New Zealand-based Antarctic Heritag...

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Professor of photographic sciences Ted Kinsman of the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York picked up a dead snapping turtle from the side of the road, x-rayed it, added false color to...

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Have a bird's-eye view of Baltimore from 33 stories up on a ledge of the Transamerica Building, where the latest generation of peregrine falcons has taken up residence. The Chesapeake Conserva...

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Australian man 42-year-old Mick Brown hit the jackpot with his metal detector near Wedderburn, Victoria. Only 6" (15 cm) beneath the surface of the earth, he found a 6 lb (2.7 kg) gold nugget,...

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The photo above shows a "murmurration" of starlings performing their synchronized aerial ballet in the sky above Utrecht, Netherlands. A group of statistical physicists figured out the how, bu...

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I have seen a lot of Grecian urns, but never one pictured in situ. This gold-lipped one – decorated with scenes of Dionysus – was excavated from the tomb of a Celtic prince in what is now...

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