Dead Mouse Carpets and Flaming Fur Balls
Category: Humor stuff, and in the best of worlds, science humor stuff
"The Ecology of Crunch and Squish," Vol. XIII at McSweeney's
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All manner of human creativity on display
David Ng is Director of the Advanced Molecular Biology Laboratory at the University of British Columbia - this is a just a fancier way of calling himself a science teacher.
Benjamin Cohen is an Asst. Professor of Science, Tech., and Society at the University of Virginia. He studies the place of S & T in environmental history, policy, and ethics. He also writes other stuff.
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July 30, 2007
Category: Humor stuff, and in the best of worlds, science humor stuff
"The Ecology of Crunch and Squish," Vol. XIII at McSweeney's
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July 27, 2007
Category: Humor stuff, and in the best of worlds, science humor stuff
Nature interview with Simpsons Executive Producer. and so much more
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July 26, 2007
Category: Industrial Agriculture
A remarkable story from the Public Patent Foundation about harassing, intimidating, suing American farmers.
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Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive
Among others, busy identifying mint, wood sorrel, and purslane growing in sidewalk cracks
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Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive
Five lists of five things that may or may not interest you about me.
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Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive
Is the scientific community is forgetting to educate the adult population?
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July 25, 2007
Category: Author Meets Bloggers
Roadless rules, glacier lilies, baseball, and someone named Ruth Onthank.
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July 24, 2007
Category: Industrial Agriculture
Just how competitive is organic farming compared to petroleum-based farming?
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Category: Author Meets Bloggers
The Forest Service, Dept. of Ag., and other scientists in the making of American Wilderness
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July 23, 2007
Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive
Because twice-two-makes-five is sometimes a most charming little thing.
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Category: Author Meets Bloggers
A conversation about wilderness with the author of a new book on just that subject.
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July 21, 2007
Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive
I'm heading out today - so just in case I won't be able to blog in my absence, this is just to say I'll be back in about two weeks. (Snapshot of my luggage)...
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July 20, 2007
Category: Humor stuff, and in the best of worlds, science humor stuff
A moratorium on ID or Creationist discussions? Dunno, but here's the IDBC again.
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July 19, 2007
Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive
After a no-go with George Lucas, we've moved on. Blame it on Episodes I and II if you must.
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Category: The Art/Science (Non?)Divide Building
On the complexity of natural and human-made systems, and the flows from both.
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July 17, 2007
Category: Nature, as in parts, bits, molecular and stuff
So, previously, I pointed out some of the difficulties involved in getting reagents and other scientific things to a place like Nigeria. Anyway, I thought a post like this might therefore be useful for the odd reader out there who...
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Category: Humor stuff, and in the best of worlds, science humor stuff
Otters are so boring, I fell asleep for a thousand years and woke up with a long beard covered in ice...
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July 16, 2007
Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive
In some ways, we can construe this as a classic "Technology" vs "Nature" battle. Where high tech takes on no tech. It's the ultimate philosophical slash pop-culture analogy for, well, I'm sure, something... So, basically, I'm just saying I'm curious...
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July 15, 2007
Category: Humor stuff, and in the best of worlds, science humor stuff
Pedestrian crap. In bald terms, this is the bathetic drivel of tensile calculus.
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July 13, 2007
Category: Links to Other Conversations and Articles
"Last week's events in [country in the news] were truly historic"
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July 12, 2007
Category: The Art/Science (Non?)Divide Building
O.K., it's been a while since I've checked in with our little "truth" experiment, but it appears that we're still holding in the top ten for google ranking (top five in google.ca). (Oh yeah, and if you're new to...
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Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive
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Category: Nature as in Earth, as in Global, as in Global Issues Generally
As mentioned earlier, I'll be heading off to Africa soon to do some experiments and teach a workshop. One of the more interesting challenges, we face from the get go, is how to deliver the reagents in a manner...
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July 11, 2007
Category: Nature as in Earth, as in Global, as in Global Issues Generally
Continuing on from our previous lecture notes (the last being about historical awareness of "global" - i.e. characterization of the Earth from both a physical and place context), we have planned that Immediately after that lecture, Allen would next go...
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Category: Links to Other Conversations and Articles
Now he's a captive dolphin rescuer speaking about those training Navy dolphins to find enemy mines. Or was in 2003 at least. This is another from the vault, and like the last, another from someone else's vault. Brent Hoff interviews...
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July 10, 2007
Category: Nature as in Earth, as in Global, as in Global Issues Generally
Just to say that in about two weeks, I'll be heading off to Ibadan in Nigeria to hold a genetics laboratory workshop. I've done this sort of thing before, and have been involved in some form or manner with...
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Category: Author Meets Bloggers
Contraceptives, demographic surveys, and other techno-scientific policies on population issues.
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July 9, 2007
Category: Humor stuff, and in the best of worlds, science humor stuff
One of the first ever humour pieces that the Science Creative Quarterly published is resurfacing today, and it's also one of my favourite (if only because it contains the phrase, "accelerating two rats to relativistic velocity.")...
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Category: Ethics Palace: Where ethical questions go to live or die
Data on human body burden of chemicals -- too many to test & an EPA too slow to try.
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Category: Author Meets Bloggers
On Science and Policy: from "population control" to "women's empowerment and reproductive health" in the 20th century
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July 8, 2007
Category: The Art/Science (Non?)Divide Building
Here's one from the vault. But not our vault. It's an all-time favorite of mine, from McSweeney's a few years ago, written by Joshua Tyree: "On the Implausibility of the Death Star's Trash Compactor." Lets file it under physics. For...
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July 6, 2007
Category: NatureLand: What They Used to Call the Environment
That roar on the other side of silence.
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Category: Nature as in Earth, as in Global, as in Global Issues Generally
Ooh. Another slide show. And one that tracks instances in history where humanity notices, "You know, the "stuff" all around, and the "where" we happen to be." As set up by this previous post, and produced by the grace of...
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July 5, 2007
Category: Nature as in Earth, as in Global, as in Global Issues Generally
O.K. so to begin the ASIC course, we thought that part of this should be an attempt to look at historically what may have defined "global" - as in both the humanities and sciences context (maybe about 20 to 25...
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Category: Links to interesting sites and discussion of them
Deadly dingoes, climate modeling, biotech trials, gender and engineering, ecology of knowledge, and the lay-expert divide.
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Category: The Art/Science (Non?)Divide Building
Wow. This collection of portraits is wonderful. Here's an image of Robert Boyle I used for the lecture I mentioned earlier. Anyway, worth checking out. (link)...
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Category: Ethics Palace: Where ethical questions go to live or die
Can PR barrage outpace environmental problems? The race is on.
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July 4, 2007
Category: Nature, as in parts, bits, molecular and stuff
Today sees the reprinting of a classic textbook piece at the Science Creative Quarterly. It's actually a rebuttal written by a friend to an earlier piece, but basically does an awesome job discussing the various characteristics of fat (particularly...
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Category: Nature as in Earth, as in Global, as in Global Issues Generally
O.K. so, let's design a course. A course that has a calendar entry as follows: ASIC 200 (3) Global Issues in the Arts and Sciences: Selected global issues explored through the methodologies and perspectives of both the physical and life...
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July 3, 2007
Category: NatureLand: What They Used to Call the Environment
On the the burgeoning commoditization of the environmental movement.
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Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive
Some new designs on discussing science, technology, and society, from Vancouver to Virginia and beyond.
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