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Category: NatureLand: What They Used to Call the Environment
Realclimate.org has a great post today called "An Open Letter to Steven Levitt." In case, you haven't heard, this is the economist, and one of the noted authors of the Freakonomics, who recently published Superfreakonomics, a book that is fast...
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Category: NatureLand: What They Used to Call the Environment
I've just had a piece published in the Walrus, and it's also available to read at their website. Basically, the piece is about how this 85ft Blue Whale skeleton was discovered and prepped for a new museum at the University...
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Category: Links to Other Conversations and Articles
Other things you may find in this column: Italian food in Chinatown; Japanese tourists; Albert Bierstadt; a French fellow; green denim on Germans; the serenity of heartwarming public space; and Obama's "Hope" poster.
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Category: NatureLand: What They Used to Call the Environment
A new book discusses how and why dirt became an object of scientific interest. It is, to that end, a story about defining the modern landscape with scientific means. It's my book, so I wanted to share news of it.
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Category: Ethics Palace: Where ethical questions go to live or die
A lot of what people are trying to hang on to when they embrace nukes is the opportunity to do things pretty much the way they've always done them: sloppily, wastefully. Nukes are the last best chance of not changing.
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Category: NatureLand: What They Used to Call the Environment
How do communities engage with the science of environmental health and air pollution research?
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Category: Author Meets Bloggers
Culture, politics, science, and history of environmental justice activism in New York City? It has to do with privatization, deregulation, and globalization.
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Category: Ethics Palace: Where ethical questions go to live or die
Seed/Scienceblog alum Katherine Sharpe finds out over at ReadyMade: "trying to live plastic-free for a week and reporting daily on my progress (or lack thereof)"
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Category: NatureLand: What They Used to Call the Environment
New book details the open-pit hard rock mining, its role in electrifying America, and its devastating environmental consequences.
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Category: NatureLand: What They Used to Call the Environment
Q: Is nature where we live and work or where we don't? (A: both) Q: Does Luther Vandross have anything to do with it? (A: not entirely) Q: Is Ronzoni Macaroni all that? (A: debatable)
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