Reconciliation Ecology

Texas Textbook Massacre - the horror (in cartoons)

noreply@blogger.com (Madhu) — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 13:21:00 +0000

via jesusfetusfajitafishsticks.blogspot.com Hat-tip: Jaakko Wallenius via Facebook. Posted via web from a leaf warbler's gleanings

Jane Goodall on Bill Moyers Journal

noreply@blogger.com (Madhu) — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 06:08:00 +0000

A friend texted earlier this evening to alert me that Jane Goodall would be on PBS tonight! Bill Moyers hosts this wide ranging interview with Jane Goodall which first aired on his show last...

Rebecca Skloot brings Henrietta Lacks to the Colbert Nation

noreply@blogger.com (Madhu) — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 06:52:00 +0000

via colbertnation.com I'm still reading Skloot's fascinating account The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, which I started reading during Black History Month, and will finish soon before Women's...

A cosmologist in hypothetical make-up

noreply@blogger.com (Madhu) — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:50:00 +0000

via blogs.discovermagazine.com This is from last night's Colbert Report where physicist and blogger Sean Carroll's new book "From Eternity to Here" presumably got the Colbert Bump. On his blog...

The Jellyfish are coming! En Masse! To... Fresno? Come check it out this friday!

noreply@blogger.com (Madhu) — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:52:00 +0000

via zimmer.csufresno.edu Why yes, we have a Jellyfish mass occurrence... well... occurring on the campus of Fresno State this friday afternoon! Well, ok - I'm not talking about some biblical flood...

A California Quail, caught in flight

noreply@blogger.com (Madhu) — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:45:00 +0000

via flickr.com Not the greatest of photos, but not bad for one of my very first pictures of this bird (I think, anyway). I caught this bit of action yesterday at the Sierra Foothill Conservancy's...

Having Your Land & Sharing It, Too: A World of Reconciliation Ecology

noreply@blogger.com (Madhu) — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:55:00 +0000

via leafwarbler's flickr The California State University, Fresno Consortium for Evolutionary Studies, Tri Beta Biology Honors Club, and the Department of Biology invite you to a special public...

Where's Skink when you really need him to save the Everglades?

noreply@blogger.com (Madhu) — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:28:00 +0000

Chang W. Lee/The New York Times FIELDS OF CANE United States Sugar's Clewiston sugar cane refinery. A $1.75 billion deal to sell land and assets to Florida was reduced to 72,800 acres, in separate...

Oh Sierra Club, are you kidding me? Oprah narrating Planet Earth Sequel??!!

noreply@blogger.com (Madhu) — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:26:00 +0000

I just noticed the following email in my inbox from the Sierra Club: Dear Friend, The waterfall toad in Venezuela -- a creature the size of a postage stamp -- can't hop more than a few inches,...

Enjoy America's National Parks on Oscar Night!

noreply@blogger.com (Madhu) — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:45:00 +0000

via travel.nationalgeographic.com With tonight's Oscar awards perhaps enjoying even stronger "green" cred thanks to the juggernaut of Avatar leading the nominees' pack, let's see how well you do on...

On chasing Yosemite National Park's moving snow line this winter

noreply@blogger.com (Madhu) — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:10:00 +0000

via youtube.com Hat-tip: Yosemite Steve Posted via web from a leaf warbler's gleanings

The Cycle of Academic Life: How Grad School is just like Kindergarten

noreply@blogger.com (Madhu) — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 23:06:00 +0000

via phdcomics.com Posted via web from a leaf warbler's gleanings

Ooze like an amoeba, float like a bird - wish we could still do that when stressed!

noreply@blogger.com (Madhu) — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:47:00 +0000

Here's another fun weird science story from NPR, about a creature that might be in the dirt in your own backyard: 20100305 Me 03 by Npr Download now or listen on posterous Naegleria-NPR.mp3...

The uncanny valley and our fear of faces almost, but not quite, human

noreply@blogger.com (Madhu) — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:48:00 +0000

20100305 Atc 12 by Npr Download now or listen on posterous 20100305_atc_12.mp3 (3646 KB) via npr.org Hat-tip: Carl Zimmer Posted via email from a leaf warbler's...

In which energy development is more endangered than the Greater Sage Grouse

noreply@blogger.com (Madhu) — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 01:41:00 +0000

As you may have heard, Obama's Interior Department came down with an interesting cognitively dissonant ruling today on the status of the Greater Sage Grouse, a species under considerable threat from...

A message to California's legislators from CSU faculty

noreply@blogger.com (Madhu) — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:24:00 +0000

If you are a faculty member in the CSU system, you should consider writing your legislators today to demand that they restore funding to the CSU. Here's a letter I just sent to congressmen and...

Who's that young artist on the telly promoting the Youth Orchestras of Fresno?

noreply@blogger.com (Madhu) — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 04:59:00 +0000

This aired earlier today on KSEE24, Fresno's NBC affiliate station. I didn't get to see it live on the telly when it aired, because I was actually in the studio watching it being recorded, having...

A rally for higher education in California, at Fresno State tomorrow!

noreply@blogger.com (Madhu) — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 01:43:00 +0000

via youtube.com Tomorrow is the statewide day of action to protest against what is happening to higher education in California these days. I just found this quite good advert from our campus...

The Ravi Sankaran Fellowship Program

noreply@blogger.com (Madhu) — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:15:00 +0000

Hard to believe, but its been a little over a year since Ravi Sankaran left us so abruptly. I was just re-reading what I wrote about him last year and couldn't suppress fresh tears watching the video...

Signs of spring at McKenzie Preserve

noreply@blogger.com (Madhu) — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 08:07:00 +0000

via flickr.com Images captured on a Sunday morning hike in the Sierra Foothills Conservancy's McKenzie Table Mountain Preserve. Posted via web from a leaf warbler's gleanings

International Year of Biodiversity 2010 (official video)

noreply@blogger.com (Madhu) — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:39:00 +0000

via youtube.com If you are on Facebook, become a fan of the International Year of Biodiversity 2010 page for more information on the issues throughout this year. Posted via web from a leaf...

The Sibley eGuide to the Birds of North America - now a (pricey) iPhone app

noreply@blogger.com (Madhu) — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:08:00 +0000

The Sibley Guide to Birds is now available as an app for iPhone and iPod Touch. Check it out at the iTunes app store (here). via sibleyguides.com Here's a review of the app, which just hit the...

Alison Gopnik on medicating children and the difference between science and journalism

noreply@blogger.com (Madhu) — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:30:00 +0000

Alison Gopnik (author of one of my favorite books: The Scientist in the Crib) offers an excellent critique of Judith Warner's new book about medicating children. Gopnik's review is really well worth...

Alligator vs. Burmese Python - A reptilian battle over the Everglades

noreply@blogger.com (Madhu) — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 09:24:00 +0000

via pbs.org The above remarkable video footage is part of the excellent, and frightening, new documentary "Invasion of the Giant Pythons" that aired on PBS's Nature program last night. Burmese...

How the Spoon-billed Sandpiper uses its unique beak

noreply@blogger.com (Madhu) — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 08:22:00 +0000

via youtube.com David Sibley, of the Sibley Guides to Birds fame, recorded the above video of the critically endangered Spoon-billed Sandpiper, Eurynorhynchus pygmeus, foraging in the mudflats of...