Archive for June, 2011

The Quest for the Perfect Music-at-Work Solution

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Many people have to share an office with several people or don’t even have real walls at work. I have a nice little office that I share with just one officemate. She makes up for her love of Top 40 country by spending much of her time in the field and the greenhouse. So most […]

Always half right/wrong

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From Karban and Huntzinger’s How to Do Ecology: A Concise Handbook: Unlike some other scientific disciplines, ecological principles are not universal. Finding a single counterexample will make us rethink our working hypothesis about the force of gravity. However, finding a single counterexample does not disprove our ideas about competition. Similarly, unlike other disciplines, ecological hypotheses […]