Interesting fact. Hummingbirds are continuously hours away from starving to death, and are able to store just enough energy to survive overnight. To conserve energy while they sleep or when food is scarce, they have the ability to go into a hibernation-like state (torpor) where their metabolic rate is slowed to 1/15th of its normal   Read More …

As I write this, tourists are roaming the art garden in the hundred degree heat, in full defiance of every survival instinct that brought their progenitors out of the world’s birthing pool and onto dry land. It may be that the desert was designed to be uninhabitable to more complex life, but then again so   Read More …