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Many-headed
An individual of Physarum polycephalum joins Hampshire College as a scholar in residence.
Still ticking
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.
Posted in Computing and Mathematics, Tools and Technology
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NPS considered harmful
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.
Enroute: 14
A lovely “bloom” of one of our common yellow myxomycetes in the Ridge Heights meadow.
Still don’t get the “Birdhouse in Your Soul” reference
It’s National Lighthouse Day, people! Take a tour of lighthouses on National Wildlife Refuge lands.
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Enroute: 11
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.
Posted in Local News and Views, Natural Sciences
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IWLA Bethesda-Chevy Chase herps
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
Key it out
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.
Big strides
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
Some links: 72
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
Posted in Agriculture, Biodiversity and Species Preservation, Birds and Birding, Citizen Science, Habitat Conservation
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Cogent connections
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
Posted in Agriculture, Birds and Birding, Quotable
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Works in the Old World, too
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
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
Two exquisite photographs of Stemonitis axifera at Botany POTD. I see that this genus has been featured there before.
Upcoming: 37
Dictyostelium slime molds from around the world will compete in the first ever Dicty World Race! Watch the time-lapse videos of cells navigating a maze embedded in a microfluidic device (nice Pac-Man obstacle) later this week, on 16 May.
