Posts by sarcozona
Who are we?
E.O. Wilson in Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge We know that virtually all of human behavior is transmitted by culture. We also know that biology has an important effect on the origin of culture and its transmission. The question remaining is how biology and culture interact, and in particular how they interact across all societies […]
Lazy Hazy Crazy Days of Summer?
Finals were over in early May, and I was looking forward to long, warm days with time to go to work and cook and dance and read. Unfortunately, it’s been mostly in the 60s with cloudy and sometimes rainy weather nearly every day. Having a migraine every afternoon has made me pretty miserable and kept […]
Instead
Instead of a bunch of links to depressing stories, I’ve got a depressing (but very very lovely) poem for you this Saturday. Death of a Field Paula Meehan The field itself is lost the morning it becomes a site When the Notice goes up: Fingal County Council – 44 houses The memory of the field […]
Sometimes it’s like this
Migraines every day for weeks on end can really get to a girl.
What We Killed Thursday
Erythroxylum echinodendron was endemic to Cuba and was declared extinct in the wild in 1998. Echinodendron means “spiny tree,” and you can see where it got its name in this herbarium specimen. Erythroxylum is a tropical genus with about 250 species. While this particular species was declared extinct in the wild rather than extinct, this […]
Times are changing
On May 28, the hosts of KRXQ’s “Rob, Arnie, and Dawn in the Morning” devoted half an hour to promoting abuse of trans children and making very cruel and untrue statements about trans children. Now lots of big sponsors like Bank of America are pulling their advertising.
Switch to Opera?
I switched from Firefox to Opera last November, but I switched back after about a month because 1) I missed my extensions and 2) the buttons on several sites (including one of my credit card websites and a site I had to use for one of my classes) didn’t work. When I heard about the […]