Watch out for the quiet ones. They always get overlooked until internal pressures reach the breaking point and there is an explosion. Santa Maria For
Author: BJ Deming
After retiring from a 25-year career in medical transcription, I decided to put my old forestry degree and undergrad geology studies to use by writing a book on cat evolution
That wasn't as easy as it sounded, but it has started a new career for me: writing and science blogging, with an emphasis presently on geoscience and paleontology.
I blog at FlightToWonder.com now and am in the process of self-publishing a series of eBooks on the modern cat family on Amazon and Google Books.
I am also honing my professional skills by working through the "Become a Journalist: Report the News!" Specialization that Michigan State University offers through Coursera at https://www.coursera.org/specializations/become-a-journalist#courses . I have completed one of the five courses thus far.
I recently joined the Society of Professional Journalists, too.
My ultimate goal is to freelance full-time, writing earth-science articles and traditionally published books, as well as continue blogging.
A Cat Domestication Two-Step
Fancy-cats could be called the only truly domestic cats because they accept total human control of their lives. That’s the very definition of domestication. Most
Decade Volcano: Sakurajima
Where you live, do the kids have to wear hard hats on their way to school, in case it rains volcanic rocks? They do on
Cats, people, and ice ages: Domestic cats and us
Go back far enough in Fluffy’s history, and you’ll discover Felis silvestris, the “cat of the forest” or wildcat. Wildcats and people Wildcats probably evolved
Decade Volcano: Teide
Huge mountains rise out of the Atlantic Ocean. Teide Volcano, at 12,200 feet, is the highest of them all. Add in the roughly 10,000 additional
Cats, People, and Ice Ages: “Felis lunensis”
How far back do people and cats go? Too far for a written record of their origins. Today’s experts must use fossils and molecular markers
