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Monthly Archive August, 2007

Science Tuesday: OCD Mice and the Nature of Fear

August 28, 2007

Today, I’m starting a new feature here at chrisdellavedova.com – trying my hand at scientific writing for a lay audience. Each week I’ll try to distill an article or two from one of the big scientific journals. This new theme corresponds a bit with a recent post about career goals, so I would be eternally [...]

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E.O. Wilson, Encyclopedia of Life and Extinction

August 9, 2007

“Hey farmer farmer
Put away that DDT now
Give me spots on my apples
But leave me the birds and the bees
Please!
Don’t it always seem to go
That you don’t know what you’ve got
Till its gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot…”
Joni Mitchell – “Big Yellow Taxi”
A freshwater dolphin, known as the baiji, indigenous to the Yangtze River [...]

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Words from Winnipeg

August 2, 2007

“Winter nights are long, summer days are gone
Portage and Main fifty below.
Looking back at a prairie town
People ask me why I went away
To fly with the best, sometimes you have to leave the nest
But the prairies made me what I am today.”
- Randy Bachman – “Prairie Town”
The Wordless Wednesday experiment was fun. I still don’t [...]

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