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The Biodiversity of Other Worlds

December 19, 2009

Warning: This post contains mild Avatar spoilers.
I want to show you something. Pull the slider bar across to 1:37 in this clip of the Jim Henson masterpiece and my favorite childhood film, “The Dark Crystal,” and watch until about 2:33.

Amazing, huh? It’s made even more amazing by the fact that all these creatures were real [...]

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Is Biodiversity More or Less Threatened Than We Thought?

December 2, 2009

You all have gathered, I’m sure, that I have a love/hate relationship with the term “biodiversity”. There’s nothing inherently wrong with it, but it gets used so much in so many vague ways that I feel it turns a lot of people off to the subject in the same way “family values” and “social justice” [...]

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My First Biodiversity Talk

June 14, 2009

The title of this post was inspired by John Cleese (with a dash of Scrubs). When I was in school in Ithaca, Cornell named him an honorary professor and invited him to speak at our interfaith chapel. I showed up on Sunday to find the title of his talk in plastic stick-on letters on the [...]

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