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2026
23 Sept 2026
On Johnjoe McFadden’s, “Life is Simple: How Occam’s Razor Set Science Free and Shapes the Universeoriginal ↗
30 Jul 2026
Everything is Related, Of and Part of the Whole: Beyond Inheritance, Our Ever-Mutating Cells and a New Understanding of Health and the Economics of Lifeoriginal ↗
6 Jul 2026
Crossings: How Road Ecology is Shaping the Future of Our Planet, My Thoughts on Goldfarb’s Bookoriginal ↗
16 Apr 2026
Is a River Alive? On the Rights of Nature, an Adventure Story and a Shifting of the Dominant Paradigmoriginal ↗
31 Mar 2026
13 Mar 2026
Nature’s Ghosts, Sophie Yeo’s Look into Ecology, the Loss of Species and Habitat, in a World that is more than mud, leaves and atoms.original ↗
21 Feb 2026
6 Feb 2026
28 Jan 2026
21 Jan 2026
On Rediscovering the World We’ve Been Ignoring: An Introduction to the Life Sciences and Our Need For Itoriginal ↗
5 Jan 2026
2025
30 Dec 2025
19 Oct 2025
25 Sept 2025
I Contain Multitudes: An Excellent Starting Point for the Beginner to Understand this Lifeoriginal ↗
27 Aug 2025
14 Aug 2025
Master Builder: How the New Science of the Cell is Rewriting the Story of Life, Alfonso Martinez Arias, a Revieworiginal ↗
3 Aug 2025
31 Jul 2025
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race, a Revieworiginal ↗
27 Jul 2025
On the Danger of Being ‘Normal’ and Exclusive: The ‘Queer’, Diversity and its Essential Natureoriginal ↗
14 Jul 2025
18 May 2025
On Ornamental Trees and the Remaking/Unmaking of Place: Revising the City of Redmond’s Tree List, part 2original ↗
4 Feb 2025
On Ornamental Trees and the Remaking/Unmaking of Place: Revising the City of Redmond’s Tree List, Part 1original ↗
3 Feb 2025
28 Jan 2025
Being Transgender: On Gender Dysphoria, Biology, Evolution, Human Survival, and a Look at One Person’s Storyoriginal ↗
16 Jan 2025
2024
From 0’ – 3,000’ in 70 Million Years: Building Oregon, Dry Canyon, The Shaping of Redmond and the Geology of the Paleo-Deschutes, Part 3original ↗
23 Dec 2024
From 0’ – 3,000’ in 70 Million Years: Building Oregon, Dry Canyon, The Shaping of Redmond and the Geology of the Paleo-Deschutes, Part 2original ↗
23 Dec 2024
From 0’ – 3,000’ in 70 Million Years: Building Oregon, Dry Canyon, The Shaping of Redmond and the Geology of the Paleo-Deschutes, Part 1 original ↗
23 Dec 2024
Redmond’s New Community Center/Pool and the Anti-Government Bias: This is What Community Failure Looks Likeoriginal ↗
17 Dec 2024
20 Oct 2024
17 Jul 2024
Weeds, Weeding and the Health of Our Public and Private Landscapes: an example from the ‘hoodoriginal ↗
28 May 2024
28 Apr 2024
Creating a Survey of Redmond’s Dry Canyon Park Flora: getting the table set to create an effective maintenance and master planoriginal ↗
15 Apr 2024
25 Mar 2024
Notes on Complexity: A Scientific Theory of Connection, Consciousness and Being, Thoughts on the Bookoriginal ↗
17 Feb 2024
Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will, a Review and Look Into its Consistency With the Sciencesoriginal ↗
20 Jan 2024
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth’s Extinct Worlds, a Valueable Entry into Understanding This Worldoriginal ↗
14 Jan 2024
2023
3 Dec 2023
On Weeds, Disruption and the Breaking of Native Plant Communities: Toward a More Informed Working Definition of Weedsoriginal ↗
10 Oct 2023
The Owls of the Eastern Ice:A Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl, Jonathan Slaght, a revieworiginal ↗
3 Mar 2023
Addressing the Disparity: If Food, Shelter, Health and Education are Necessities for Humans…original ↗
14 Feb 2023
2022
Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis , a Revieworiginal ↗
2 Dec 2022
12 Nov 2022
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic, David Quammen, WW Norton & Co.,2012; a Revieworiginal ↗
6 May 2022
The Way of the Cell: Molecules, Organisms and the Order of Life – A Review (Read This Book if any of the Life Sciences are of even remote interest to you)original ↗
8 Mar 2022
Democracy, Inclusion and Full Citizenship as Biological Imperative: Arundhati Roy and the Politics of the Worldoriginal ↗
13 Feb 2022
Every Life is on Fire: How Thermodynamics Explains the Origins of Living Things–A Review…and a Deeper Look Into the ‘Fire’ of Life..original ↗
31 Jan 2022
A Review and thoughts on Peter Hoffmann’s book, “Life’s Ratchet: How Molecular Machines Extract Order from Chaos”, Basic Books, 2012. original ↗
7 Jan 2022
2021
21 Sept 2021
“Entangled Life: How Fungi Make our Worlds, Change our Minds & Shape our Futures”: A Revieworiginal ↗
25 Aug 2021
“The Ghosts of Evolution: Nonsensical Fruit, Missing Partners and Other Ecological Anachronisms” – A Review and Thoughts on this Lifeoriginal ↗
7 Aug 2021
Sex, Evolution and Form: Clarifying the Relationship Between Dandelion and the European Honey Beeoriginal ↗
27 May 2021
Physics, Evolution, Natural Selection and the Generative Power of Far Out of Equilibrium Dissipative Structures (Organisms), part 2original ↗
4 May 2021
On the Chaotic Unreality of the Real and How We Redefine It: Reimagining Reality in a Probable Universeoriginal ↗
9 Apr 2021
On Life: An Annotated Reading List of Titles Exploring the Physics, Biology, Evolution, Natural Selection and the Generative Power of Far Out of Equilibrium Dissipative Structures (Organisms)original ↗
19 Mar 2021
Physics, Evolution, Natural Selection and the Generative Power of Far Out of Equilibrium Dissipative Structures (Organisms), part 1original ↗
12 Mar 2021
Why Bad Things Happen to Good Plants?: On Root Problems, Root Washing, Nursery Practices and Customersoriginal ↗
21 Feb 2021
Agapanthus for the Maritime Pacific Northwest: Not all of these are well suited for us…or are they?original ↗
12 Jan 2021