W.R. Elsberry's The Austringer
Wesley R. Elsberry's personal weblog, talking about falconry, science, antievolution, computation, and the broken body he lives in.
Updated: 3 weeks 3 days ago
Connection Issues
My connection to the servers in Texas from my home systems is unreliable. For the moment, my only reliable link to various of my web sites and my usual email is via my Android phone. Fortunately, I’m grandfathered into an unlimited data plan and have a Bluetooth keyboard. But that is still not a long-term [...]
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No One Expects the Comparative Anatomist
Upcoming television series on PBS: Inside Nature’s Giants, begins January 18th at 10 PM. Professor Joy Reidenberg is an unlikely TV star. She’s a comparative anatomist with the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. Physically, she is diminutive, dark-haired and dark-eyed, and not the sort of slender sylph in morphotype that TV producers [...]
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SMM 2011: Sirenian Workshop
I’m attending the Society for Marine Mammalogy biennial conference this year. The location is the Tampa Convention Center, making this pretty simple to get to. Saturday and Sunday are when various workshops are held. Today, I’m attending the Sirenian workshop. It is an all-day affair, with 33 speakers and over 200 attendees. My early connectivity [...]
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Not as Simple as They Think
The editors of the Tulsa World think that Lawmakers should adopt stronger wildlife laws. That’s fair enough in light of the tragedy in Ohio where exotic predators like lions, tigers, and bears were released by a suicidal keeper. But the editorial’s structure left much to be desired, in my opinion. They do have a good [...]
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