Next year’s firewood is cut, split, stacked and permanently covered beside The Shed, part of the fall ritual, writes columnist Dana Wilde.

Some researchers are starting to think that brain size, and specifically the number of neurons, doesn’t exactly correlate to cognitive ability, writes columnist Dana Wilde.

Waiting for the Earth’s shadow to cover the whole wafer of white moon, Dana Wilde ponders facts of our inner psychic reality.

Even if you missed the black-and-yellow female spider patiently waiting, your eye might be drawn to the thick white zigzag of silk at the center of her web, writes Dana Wilde.

Why female spiders eat the males sometimes, the scientists aren’t sure, Dana Wilde writes.