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April 4, 2008
I’ve been listening to a new Pandora station that I’ve titled “Can you Feel It (Shame).” The songs that input the station are all based on funky disco stuff that generally makes me happy and productive, and while i sit at my desk i get to bop back and forth while doing work.
Occasionally the tune […]
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February 29, 2008
Occasionally I have reason to leave my office desk to print out labels over in the Unio room of the department. This means I have to walk out into the HMNH gallery of mammals. The lower part of the gallery is, for sure, full of mammals, and whole whale skeletons are right at eye […]
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January 31, 2008
This is a summary and response to Yang, G. (2005). “Environmental NGOs and institutional dynamics in China,” The China Quarterly, 181, 46-66.
This article was a great update on the sort of information I was collecting in 1999. The basic scene is this: China is a fairly repressive non-democratic society where protest and political organization […]
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January 22, 2008
While going through my living on earth podcasts, I finally got to John Edwards thoughts on climate change. It was interesting to notice only three candidates showed for this forum in California, all democrats, and only two of which are really talked about in the news at this point in the race (Clinton and Edwards). […]
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January 15, 2008
So I’ve talked a bunch about loving sustainable development and liking it when interesting things happen. There’s also a lot of controversy built up in sustainable development because of the problems in dealing with poverty, population, and international relations. One thing people talk about is conditional aid. I even talk about conditional […]
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January 3, 2008
Living on Earth has been airing clips of a forum with presidential candidates talking about environmental issues, with a special focus on climate change. This took place in LA in late November, and clips of the audio are available in podcast. The first in the series was Senator Clinton. She had several environmental goals, should […]
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December 10, 2007
The world’s governments and scientists have been meeting in Bali, Indonesia to talk about climate change, and what plans should be on the table for the near future as well as beyond the end of this phase of the Kyoto protocol in 2012. In light of all that I’ve been doing some thinking on climate […]
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December 5, 2007
I have always been fascinated by cetaceans. They were my first in-depth animal study, along with learning everything I could about dinosaurs. By the time I went on my first whale watch, I was calling species on the basis of fin markings, back hump profiles while sounding, and facial characteristics. My family went on a […]
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November 28, 2007
I started thinking about this today while listening to the 22nd of April 2007 Naked Scientist Podcast.
Plants compete for resources, and natural systems are very complex with competition going on on all kinds of levels at the same time. When we add fertilizers, ecological niches are obliterated, there’s no competition in those areas, and […]
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November 26, 2007
I was listening to BBC worldservice this morning, and apparently a book called Wolf Totem （朗图腾） by Jiang Rong is going to be published in English. I’m not sure why this news is hitting now, as the book was set for English publication back in 2005, unless it’s the news that the translation is […]
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