Archive for 2011
Sunday Song
A good song paired with scenes from a great movie.
What’s wrong with community ecology?
From Karban and Huntzinger’s How to Do Ecology: A Concise Handbook: Since manipulative experiments in ecology today are almost always conducted at spatial and temporal scales smaller than our ideal, it is worth considering what effect this has on our worldview. Small-scale experiments have led us as a group to believe in local determinism, that […]
Everything is ok
Everything is okay, but I am very sleepy. Hospitals may make sick people well, but they sure do drain the life out of the well! Luckily, I can spare an afternoon for napping.
Simple surgery
I got to the ambulatory surgery center, soup and book in hand, expecting to wait perhaps half an hour then head home with a loopy friend. But sometimes a simple surgery isn’t so simple. Now, I’m waiting, worrying beside a too quiet hospital bed.
Spring is back!
It may have snowed twice last week, but spring is definitely back today. Hooray for pretty dresses and sandals!
New theme!
Three people tell me they like the new theme, but one person actually called me and gave me a 5 minute lecture on how awful it is. According to my blog stats, that means at least four of my readers haven’t weighed in. Here’s your chance: [poll id=”1″]
Pollution, Overfishing, and Framing Biodiversity Issues
Have you ever noticed how environmentalists tend to talk about ecology and the environment as if we humans aren’t part of the Earth’s ecosystems? That’s silly. With very few exceptions, all humans live on Earth in environments of Earth resources. For the most part, the environmental movement doesn’t recognize that the ways people change and […]