Archive for 2009
For Your Soul
What Work Is Philip Levine We stand in the rain in a long line waiting at Ford Highland Park. For work. You know what work is–if you’re old enough to read this you know what work is, although you may not do it. Forget you. This is about waiting, shifting from one foot to another. […]
I got a scholarship!
This weekend I found out I didn’t get the Udall scholarship and had a pity party. I found out yesterday that I got a $1000 scholarship from my university’s biology department. It’s not $5000, but it makes me feel better!
“Clean” Coal is bullshit
This video will probably make you want to cry (or break things): But this one might make you feel a little better:
To Make Your Monday Better
Complexity in biology – how much can we know?
E.O. Wilson in Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge So the important questions are, first, do general organizing principles exist that allow a living organism to be reconstituted in full without recourse to brute force simulation of all its molecules and atoms? Second, will the same principles apply to mind, behavior, and ecosystems? Third, is there […]
Feminists Don’t Have a Sense of Humor
Berry Go Round #15
I’m a little late advertising this, but the 15th edition of Berry Go Round is up at A Neotropical Savanna. I particularly enjoyed Watcher’s posts on Costa Rican trees (and some of the bugs that inhabit them) and pinyon pine.