Absolutely charming episode of One Year 1990 about one guy’s fight against tobacco ads targeting his community
Absolutely charming episode of One Year 1990 about one guy’s fight against tobacco ads targeting his community
The California Faculty Association, which represents me and thousands of other faculty in the Calstate system, moves one step closer to a strike following the conclusion of a statutory fact-finding period with no resolution in bargaining editor.des05.com/vo/
Donations to GOP drop as worries mount about the party’s finances
Gift link for some very good and welcome schadenfreude
Hiked to Barclay Lake, still below the current snow line but not too low for frost
Thanksgiving contributions this year:
Pumpkin upside-down cake from the Post www.washingtonpost.com/recipes/s…
And cranberry chutney from NPR www.npr.org/2023/11/1…
“I added Teddy Roosevelt to the list of bocce enthusiasts on the ‘bocce’ [Wikipedia] page. Soon this fact appeared on the home page of the United States Bocce Federation.”
Absolutely deranged quiz-article about generational communication styles in the Post.
These aren’t even contrasting options????
The “wait why is Bookshop emailing about an incoming delivery” to OMGOMG MURDERBOT pipeline
You may not like it but this is what peak academic mentoring looks like
“I can see accidentally saying something like, ‘I love to stand on a balcony’ or ‘I am interested to see more fashion by Hugo Boss,’ but those are not the kinds of things we are talking about.”
“Such destructive, megalomaniacal leaders with delusional goals and narcissistic traits seen as virtues by Musk… are lampooned in the iconic, literal-world-destroying character of Zaphod Beeblebrox.”
“Renaming the birds, in contrast [to evaluating centuries of historical figures with birds named after them], offered an opportunity to highlight unique features of the birds themselves.”
#BirdNamesForBirds on NPR this morning
#wildlife #naturalist #birds
“You’ll wish you had gone into botany!” — Captain Benjamin Sisko
Set my PR in the 10k and all it took was shutting down seven miles of the 110 freeway strava.app.link/tbtnuiBDi…
Boosted, finally
Christopher Pike, captain of the starship Enterprise:
“Isn’t it just as plausible that, if you think things are getting better, you will grab everything you can, guilt-free, confident that a rising tide will inevitably lift all boats?” davekarpf.substack.com/p/on-tech…
I just voted to authorize my union, the California Faculty Association, to call a strike in the event that the California State University system management keeps refusing to engage with CFA’s requests in our current contract negotiation. I don’t want to strike, but if we have to do it I’m ready.
LAMB MOWERS
House Cats Will Rule the World: Domestic cats may evolve into the alpha predators of the future.
Jonathan Losos, in Slate, on the ecological opportunity the anthropocene presents to feral cats
#evolution #ecology #anthropocene #cats
Actually looked at the back of the new edition of my #evolution textbook just before class and had to take a moment
Sunday I ran a personal best half-marathon (Strava clocked 1:29:02??) but the course was about a quarter-mile long and my timing chip glitched (fix requested, still waiting) so it’s probably not an official sub-1:30 half, so… try, try again?
For a new week: I dug into the history of a definition I’ve used my entire career, and discovered… we may not need it?
Don’t ask “When is it coevolution?” — ask “How is it coevolution?”
#evolution #ecology #science
www.molecularecologist.com/2023/10/1…
“I’ll be very honest with you, it partly came about because of . . . [Sir Patrick Stewart mimes smoking a joint.]”
If the states are laboratories of democracy, some of these labs need an IACUC review
How red-state politics are shaving years off Americans’ lives wapo.st/46C87IJ