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@natator88

Biologist specializing in sea turtles and stress physiology. My goal is to be a polymath. Follow me on twitter: @5m4ug

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natator88
@natator88 Feb 26, 2018, 1:45 AM UTC

ALTERNATIVE FUTURE HISTORY: CUBAN DEMOCRACY

Margaret Trudeau, mother of Justin Trudeau, 23rd Prime Minister of Canada, and wife to Pierre Trudeau, 15th Prime Minister of Canada, visited Cuba in 1971. Justin Trudeau was born in December, 1971.…

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natator88
@natator88 Feb 15, 2018, 6:57 PM UTC

ART PERSONIFIED - OLYMPICS

Aliona Savchenko and Bruno Massot of Germany just captured the gold medal at the PyeongChang Winter 2018 Olympics. Watching their free skate performance made me think: art personified. The music they…

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natator88
@natator88 Feb 8, 2018, 4:26 PM UTC

The Most Heartwarming Headline You'll See Maybe Ever

# South Korea Asks UN for Permission to Let North Korean Official Attend Olympics I sometimes sit and ponder how North Korea will lift itself from its morass. Lately, it seems that South Korea is int…

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natator88
@natator88 Feb 6, 2018, 5:17 PM UTC

Suicidal Species and the Complexity of Nature

# Suicidal Species Are (nonhuman) species suicidal by nature? That is, will they consume prey until there is no prey left, thereby unintentionally committing suicide? An experiment from the 1930s by…

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natator88
@natator88 Feb 3, 2018, 11:33 PM UTC

Make America Green Again

The Sierra Club just sent a sticker in the mail: Make America Green Again. I'm going to use this sticker, and enjoy using it, even though it is anathema to their mission. Specifically, they are "uneq…

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natator88
@natator88 Feb 1, 2018, 9:25 PM UTC

A Libertarian and Epistemocratic View of Ecology

What do the primacy of the individual and a recognition of the unknowable have to do with ecology? Let us rewind time back to 1798 and a chap called Malthus, who proposed a theory of population growt…

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natator88
@natator88 Jan 23, 2018, 6:47 PM UTC

Discordant Harmonies - Daniel B. Botkin

Is nature intrinsically harmonious or inharmonious? Mainstream ecologists would probably reply, "Harmonious, of course. Everything is interconnected in a beautiful web of smoothly running adaptation.…

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natator88
@natator88 Dec 23, 2017, 9:25 PM UTC

Maximize the Serendipity Around You

Nassim Taleb is full of one-liners good for maxims, mottoes, and mantras. Just read his book "The Bed of Procrustes." This particular advice, however, comes from his book "The Black Swan." For exampl…

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natator88
@natator88 Dec 23, 2017, 2:43 PM UTC

Winter Beauty

My Mom is an excellent photographer. She shot this pine cone during Golden Light, an hour after sunrise or sunset. I was lucky enough to be raised by two generations of photographers, my Mom and Gran…

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natator88
@natator88 Dec 22, 2017, 4:48 AM UTC

Why I Hope Bitcoin Keeps Dropping

At the beginning of this year, I had about enough cryptocurrency here on steemit to buy one Bitcoin. But I didn't, because I'm not a very decisive person. Now, I'm kicking myself. So, I hope Bitcoin…

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