Teacher as StoryTeller
The story of what LIFE does to MATTER is perhaps the most remarkable--and important--story everyone, and especially our leaders, should know well.
The Conversation: Feeding your Genius and Putting it to Good Work
How do we cultivate our passionate interests to grow genius to do good things?
Global Worming
Non-native earthworms are perhaps the most serious of invasive land pests. Learn about them and avoid spreading them when possible.
The Children-Avatars of Goose Creek
It is a fact (barring worse-case outcomes in the real estate realm) that this date a year from now, I will not be sitting at this desk in this room at these coordinates on Planet Earth. But someone will be…
More Shorts for Cold Weather
Here is served more high-fiber roughage, I suppose, that helps keep the old information digestion system moving regularly. One has to take the time to slow down and spend a few moments of quiet reflection, and just let go. Pass…
Contagion: Contained?
As a biologist, I’ve always been interested in epidemiology of disease, and as a zoologist, particular those that originate in wild or domestic animals. And so there has been quite a bit to keep up with regarding the zoonoses of…
Sunday Shorts: 020220
I’m taking the path of least resistance, tossing up some links from the past week or so, straight from my daily gatherings (using ROAM as mentioned below.) YMMV. A new day for Indigo Snakes in ALABAMA Longest snake in North…
Enter, February: and Then…
And life goes on, being both here and not here, hoping for a day of routine and habit on the other side of this move.
Bioprospecting, Ecological Services and Feeding 10 Billion
So this is one of those rabbit trails I have no idea will come between the first and second cup of coffee in the morning browse. From the Anthropocene Magazine link called provocatively “Making Nature Pay for Itself” I followed…
The Confluence of Chance and Destiny
Selling a place you love: is less like finding someone to adopt a pet than it is like seeking a peaceful and secure passage into another life for dependent next-of-kin. We can’t just drop this place off at the curb…
Saddle Up, Move’m Out
Fred and Ann prepare to show and sell their place, moving closer to town in June.
The Agonies of Ink to Paper
My morning pages sometimes get out of hand. What can I say? I’m hearing conversations with inanimate objects now. So lock me up. They ended up, one atop the other, in the back of my car, both bound for the…