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Matthew Wills

Wealth and Wellness the Eclipse Way

I don’t have any eclipse-safe viewing glasses kicking around, but I do have a MetroCard. Monday’s solar eclipse will sweep the umbra from…

Apr 5

Wealth and Wellness the Eclipse Way

Apr 5

Matthew Wills

What Is To Be Done? Updated

Here in New York, the early voting for the April 2, 2024 Democratic presidential primary starts on Saturday, March 23. I bet my voting…

Mar 21

What Is To Be Done? Updated

Mar 21

Matthew Wills

Kestrel Paparazzo

I make an effort to photograph every American Kestrel I see. I manage to get most of them but miss more than a few, especially when they’re…

Feb 18

Kestrel Paparazzo

Feb 18

Matthew Wills

The Ruptured Duck

When entirely-too-slick Frank Niles, played by Howard Duff in the 1948 film The Naked City, is revealed to be lying about his wartime…

Nov 10, 2023

The Ruptured Duck

Nov 10, 2023

Matthew Wills

iNaturalist iNsider

As of this date, just over 2.7 million people have put up observations of life forms on the community science platform iNaturalist. But…

Jun 19, 2023

iNaturalist iNsider

Jun 19, 2023

Matthew Wills

Aide-mémoire

I remember reading Joe Brainard’s I Remember. There were different editions published between 1970 and 1975, the period covered below, but…

Mar 13, 2023

Mar 13, 2023

Matthew Wills

Brooklyn Raptor Observatory On The Road (for a few blocks, anyway)

“We spend our life,” wrote Samuel Beckett, “trying to bring together in the same instant a ray of sunshine and a free bench.” Throw in some…

Feb 28, 2023

Brooklyn Raptor Observatory On The Road (for a few blocks, anyway)

Feb 28, 2023

Matthew Wills

Birthday Gift

There may be no better way of celebrating my birthday, and the half-century-plus reading it represents, than by getting your hands on…

Feb 20, 2023

Birthday Gift

Feb 20, 2023

Matthew Wills

The Brooklyn Raptor Observatory

From the windows of the Brooklyn Raptor Observatory, otherwise known as our apartment, American Kestrel, Red-tailed Hawk, Cooper’s Hawk…

Jan 25, 2023

The Brooklyn Raptor Observatory

Jan 25, 2023

Matthew Wills

Commonplace Notes

Legacy of Violence: A History of The British Empire by Caroline Elkins.

Dec 28, 2022

Dec 28, 2022

Matthew Wills

Matthew Wills

Essays and assays on natural and unnatural histories by a magpie-mind. Daily Brooklyn nature sightings: https://matthewwills.com

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