Posts by sarcozona
What I’ve Noticed: Really Long Edition
Between things like steep fines and jail time for the “crimes” of being poor and/or a person of color and being unable to get a job because of poor credit, it’s almost impossible to escape poverty in the US. Yesterday was the anniversary of Japan’s surrender in WWII. Still sucks to be a woman in […]
ESA Meeting
I spent last week at the Ecological Society of America meeting in Albuquerque. ESA meetings are huge, and Albuquerque was not quite prepared – at least one bar ran out of beer. Albuquerque was not the prettiest city, but I loved that there were murals everywhere. Unfortunately, I only got one picture. There were […]
Davis arboretum
While in Davis, I did take my own advice and went to the arboretum a few times. I was especially fascinated with a group of plants in their Australian collection that produced flowers along their stems and kept on growing – you could see what was left sheathing the stems for years afterward. I wish […]
What’s the problem?
E.O. Wilson in Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge: The current status of the social sciences can be put in perspective by comparing them with the medical sciences. Both have been entrusted with big, urgent problems. … In both spheres the problems have been intractably complex, partly because the root causes are poorly understood. The medical […]
Davis
In an attempt to avoid monsoons (and resulting migraines), I spent most of July in Davis, CA where the weather is much more consistent in the summers than where I live. I didn’t do too many vacation-y things since I was getting ready for a conference and a workshop, but I did enjoy staying in […]
What I’ve Noticed
We’re cutting all the wrong things. If I ever live somewhere humid enough, I’m going to grow these in my house. How to stifle innovation and piss off your customers. Dr. Isis might be the best mom in the world: if … Little Isis does grow to prefer silver metallic heels to black wingtips, then […]
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