Author Archive | Donna Hesterman

Here is a short video of our class field trip to see the otter trackers in action. I’m just learning to use iMovie so this was an editing film exercise for me.

As it turns out, there are no good videos of pink flamingos on the Internet. I burned the better part of Saturday looking for them, so believe me when I say there are none. In lieu of pink flamingo videos, I offer the following. These are, in my opinion, the top three bird videos of…

You’ve heard of the old prank where someone takes your pink flamingo yard ornament (or garden gnome) and sends you photos of it posing in front of the Eiffel Tower and other destinations? I think it’s a wonderful tradition, and if I could bear the sight of such a thing in my yard, I’d have…

I’m not the sharpest tack in the box. De-mystifying science, the job of a science writer, is difficult for me because I am easily mystified. I feel comfortable in my world of wildlife biology, but when I venture out to cover physical science stories in chemistry, physics, etc., it’s pretty daunting. In these cases, the…

This weekend I was telling someone about all the assignments we have taken on over the past weeks in SciCom — double earth quakes, oil eating bacteria, etc. He said, “Wow, you should be really smart by the time you write 10 months worth of articles on subjects like that.” I should be. Unfortunately, once…