Archive for May, 2012

Too poor to pay taxes

Posted by sarcozona on May 30, 2012. No comments.

Conservatives I know keep bitching about how half of Americans don’t pay taxes.* I think their position here is kind of horrible: they see “46% of Americans don’t pay federal income taxes” and demand that they pay “their fair share.”** Isn’t a better question why are half of Americans so poor they can’t pay income […]

Science-ese

Posted by sarcozona on May 28, 2012. No comments.

Owens, writing in The Reproductive Biology of Lodgepole Pine, says The genus Pinus has about 108 species but the actual number is uncertain and the taxonomy of the family unsettled. What he means is OMG! Why are you so complicated, pine trees?

Berry Go Round #51

Posted by sarcozona on May 27, 2012. 2 comments.

Now that the days are long and the sun is out again, I’ve been spending as much time as I can outside. This is my first spring in Epiphyte City and I’ve got a lot of new plants to learn. You wouldn’t know all the botanizing I’ve been doing by looking at my blog, but […]

Why people pirate

Posted by sarcozona on May 17, 2012. No comments.

Music for dancing around your office when your supervisor likes your paper

Posted by sarcozona on May 16, 2012. No comments.

Thank you, Jesus, for assistance with residual maximum likelihood

Posted by sarcozona on May 9, 2012. One comment.

In the acknowledgements for some super annoying software I am being forced to use at a workshop this week is this gem: I, Arthur Gilmour, thank Jesus Christ for His forgiveness and personal support over many years. As He has said Behold I stand at the door and knock. If any man hear my voice […]

ESA Interviews – Ana Elisa Perez-Quintero

Posted by sarcozona on May 8, 2012. No comments.

I interviewed awesome ecologists at the 2011 Ecological Society of America meeting in exchange for reader donations, which paid for my conference attendance. This is the last – but certainly not the least – in a series of posts about those interviews. I met Ana-Elisa through the SEEDS program. Every year, ESA’s SEEDS program brings […]