Tag: Backyard

This project looks at how to influence housing in Los Angeles (because I really would like to rent/buy a house soon) with a tool powered by data science. Many LA Homeowners have the question: Should I build a backyard house? LA Mayor Garcetti recently signed into law many measures to...

I’ve had my eye on a product called Bird Buddy for a while. It’s a wifi-enabled backyard bird feeder with a wide-angle camera mounted on the front. When the camera detects that a feathered friend has stopped by for some seed, it starts recording. The viewer can play back the vi...

On a bright, clear summer day — something of a rarity in Halifax, Nova Scotia — Chris Miller leads me down an unfamiliar path, in more ways than one. I have never hiked the Blue Mountain-Birch Cove Lakes wilderness area before. In fact, I have never hiked anywhere before. Th...

A taxonomist, an ecologist and a mathematician walked into a garden…and spent their lockdown documenting every species of animal, plant and fungus they could find around their home. Andrew Rogers, Matthew Holden and Russell Yong expected to encounter perhaps as many as 300 species o...