Tag Archives: hobbyhorse

Enroute: 16

Posted on Monday, 4 June 2018 11:18 by David Gorsline

I should bumper-sticker Della with the warning, “I brake for cable-stayed bridges.” This is the Penobscot Narrows Bridge: I’m standing on the approach on the Verona Island side; Prospect is at the other end. You can just make out the … Continue reading →

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Many-headed

Posted on Tuesday, 24 April 2018 21:11 by David Gorsline

An individual of Physarum polycephalum joins Hampshire College as a scholar in residence.

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Still ticking

Posted on Thursday, 12 April 2018 14:46 by David Gorsline

I wrote up some notes on A Portable Cosmos, by Alexander Jones, a summary of what 120 years of studying the Antikythera Mechanism (one of my obsessions) have revealed to us.

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NPS considered harmful

Posted on Friday, 22 December 2017 13:40 by David Gorsline

Jared M. Spool dismembers Net Promoter Score from the user experience perspective: easy to game, sensitive to noise, not correlated with past or future actual behavior, NPS scores are the equivalent of a daily horoscope.

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Enroute: 14

Posted on Saturday, 3 June 2017 17:08 by David Gorsline

A lovely “bloom” of one of our common yellow myxomycetes in the Ridge Heights meadow.

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Still don’t get the “Birdhouse in Your Soul” reference

Posted on Sunday, 7 August 2016 12:21 by David Gorsline

It’s National Lighthouse Day, people! Take a tour of lighthouses on National Wildlife Refuge lands.

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Enroute: 11

Posted on Sunday, 24 July 2016 11:18 by David Gorsline

At left, a mystery slime mold busting out of the mulch, in my neighborhood on the way to the bus stop. At right, 51 N Street, N.E, being demolished ever so gradually.

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IWLA Bethesda-Chevy Chase herps

Posted on Sunday, 29 May 2016 11:08 by David Gorsline

Our final field trip with Rachel Gauza’s class took us to the Bethesda-Chevy Chase chapter of the Izaak Walton League of America, 600-odd acres near Poolesville and McKee-Beshers WMA. Out host was Larry Anderson. Our targets were snakes, but we … Continue reading →

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Key it out

Posted on Sunday, 28 June 2015 16:04 by David Gorsline

Something to skim during my long twice-daily train rides: Arthur Lister’s Monograph of the Mycetozoa (2/e, 1911), digitized and available through the Biodiversity Heritage Library.

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Big strides

Posted on Sunday, 28 June 2015 14:20 by David Gorsline

Robert Rice updates us on the progress of the Smithsonian’s Bird Friendly (BF) coffee program, and connects it to research programs here and abroad. The program is retailing north of 700 thousand pounds of java annually. The biggest challenge facing … Continue reading →

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Some links: 72

Posted on Tuesday, 21 April 2015 21:13 by David Gorsline

Many conservation-oriented links piling up on my virtual desk, unremarked—so this needs must be a roundup post. Sharman Apt Russell describes her experiences collecting phenology data for Nature’s Notebook. Caren Cooper summarizes the findings in her recent paper in the … Continue reading →

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Cogent connections

Posted on Sunday, 1 March 2015 22:05 by David Gorsline

Our feeling is that triple certification [of coffee] has great potential. Consumers might have a short attention span, but they’re not stupid. If presented in short, cogent messages that explain the connections between the social and the environmental arguments, the … Continue reading →

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Works in the Old World, too

Posted on Sunday, 15 February 2015 13:43 by David Gorsline

In the past, when I’ve posted about shade-grown, bird-friendly coffee (for instance, here, here, and here), the research focus (by scientists like Ivette Perfecto and Russell Greenberg) has been on Central American farms and neotropical migrants. New research indicates that … Continue reading →

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I’d go with Freedman’s Village Hwy

Posted on Monday, 12 January 2015 20:28 by David Gorsline

Eric Green wonders why major thoroughfares in the Commonwealth are named for traitors to their country: It’s been suggested that Jefferson Davis Highway should be called the Pentagon 9/11 Memorial Highway (for obvious reasons) or Freedman’s Village Highway, to honor … Continue reading →

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Dewy pink

Posted on Saturday, 29 November 2014 13:35 by David Gorsline

Two exquisite photographs of Stemonitis axifera at Botany POTD. I see that this genus has been featured there before.

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