Posts by sarcozona
Sunday Song
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 […]
Your powerpoint upsets me
Here is a picture of me and your horrific slides, via Hyperbole and a Half:
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 […]
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 […]