What I Found Interesting: October 15, 2025

Green-colored copper sculpture of girl laying down on her stomach on the ground reading a book, brown mulch surround the sculpture, green-leafed white-flowered shrubs in the background.

Why Sir Tim Berners-Lee gave away the web for free, a South American country pledges to permanently protect 90% of its tropical rainforests, and 40 years of cleanup restore a west Michigan lake are a few of the interesting stories I’ve read and enjoyed in the past month.

I hope you enjoy them, too!

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Photo of the Week: Pileated Woodpecker

Large black woodpecker with red-crested white-striped head and heavy gray bill perches on side of brown-barked tree with long claw feet.

It’s not often I’m able to see a Pileated woodpecker close up.

They’re usually flying away from me, as I view white patches on their underwings and typical woodpecker undulating flight.

Or I hear their loud drilling in the tree tops as I peer through shadowed leaves for a glimpse of the almost crow-sized black red-crested bird with white stripes on its head.

This weekend I happened to be in the right place at the right time.

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