new york state of mind

December 9, 2012

Shad Slocombe woke up two hours early to boil water for bathing and to get ready. The first floor of …

exciting milestones!

June 9, 2012

Carbon dioxide concentration hit 400 ppm this spring at a NOAA Monitoring Station in Barrow, Alaska. The remoteness of the …

April 23, 2012

I’ve recently read: Rohrer, J.(2010). Attacking Trust: Hawai’i as a Crossroads and Kamehameha Schools in the Crosshairs. American Quarterly 62(3), …

February 4, 2011

The NY Times Book Review has two articles out this week about climate-relevant books. The first is Hot by Mark …

October 26, 2010

I personally read and loved all of Stieg Larsson’s books about Lisbeth Salander, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The …

November 17, 2009

So, my first response to the headline below and its accompanying picture was, naturally, “Maybe that’s because Clinton can spell.” …

February 15, 2009

Okay, so I totally forgot to post about this! Thursday, in addition to being Lincoln’s 200th birthday, was Charles Darwin’s …

January 16, 2009

Reserved for this man. He should never be allowed near books again, and every volume in his collection should be …

April 24, 2008

I’ve been reading Elizabeth Kolbert’s Field Notes From a Catastrophe, because I really liked the original series of New Yorker …