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  • How did I get here?

    How did I get here?

    Did you ever stop to think, “How did I get here?”

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  • Gas. Cow gas, not car gas.

    Gas. Cow gas, not car gas.

    Cows emit a lot of gas. Methane. They burp. They poot and their “waste” collects in ponds and lagoons with more greenhouse grasses. Technology to the rescue! Maybe…

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  • Bug brains are inspiring new collision avoidance systems for cars

    A thousand years ago while I was working at Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota, NOAA was testing a new technology LIDAR, light detection and ranging. They were measuring…

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  • Work=Beer Money

    Spent last week at Writers in Paradise. The paper I submitted for review is, After Midnight. Essentially it’s the story of the last couple of months of my…

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  • Transparency as strategy

    Transparency as strategy

    Just before Christmas a very cool story about a tiny frog in central and south America. These little guys aren’t sporting a powerful poison, rather they grow transparent…

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  • Grasshopper Gaslighting

    Grasshopper Gaslighting

    Scientists found a new species of grasshopper on a friend’s farm in the Cumberland Plateau of Tennessee. His farm was clearcut for years, having been a tree farm.…

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  • What is disability? Is it really a thing?

    What is disability? Is it really a thing?

    I was listening to the book Starry Messenger by Neil deGrasse Tyson. He was talking about disability, what is and isn’t and how, exactly does that apply. What…

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