Archive for 2011

The Quest for the Perfect Music-at-Work Solution

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

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 […]

Pretty things

I am in an excellent mood today, the kind of mood that perfectly matches these cheerful summer shoes:

Be careful what you eat

Sorry if you were disappointed when you tried to watch the video I posted earlier today. Apparently a few short clips from a movie paired with a lovely song in a new creative work was too much for the copyright to handle. To make up for that and some fairly dry explanations in my recent […]