Name: Nuthatch
Dateline: Michigan
Weblog: www.bootstrap-analysis.com [RSS]
Articles: 8
First Published: Saturday, March 11, 2006
Last Published: Tuesday, May 2, 2006
Nuthatch is an ecologist at a major Midwestern university; her research focuses on urban ecology and birds. Visit her natural history and science blog, Bootstrap Analysis.Currently listing articles 8-1:
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Book Review: Silent Snow by Marla Cone— A prize-winning Los Angeles Times writer brings the horrors of the toxic contamination of the Arctic to your doorstep.
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Book Review: NO by Carl Djerassi— On today's episode of Djerassi High: "Just Say 'NO!'" to painfully poorly written works of science-in-fiction.
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Book Review: 1491 by Charles Mann— It was the accounts of indigenous technology and profound environmental transformation that I found most provocative.
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The Ivory-Billed Woodpecker Still Awaits Rediscovery— Followers of sound scientific method can only conclude that the Ivory-billed Woodpecker is still awaiting rediscovery.
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Book Review: Oaxaca Journal by Oliver Sacks— The author of Awakenings writes about a trip to Mexico, and it's a departure in more ways than one.
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Book Review: City Birding: True Tales of Birds and Birdwatching in Unexpected Places— As an ecologist who has discovered a Gyrfalcon in a parking lot and a Kirtland's Warbler on a college campus, I live the stories.
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Book Review: The Bedside Book of Birds— Have a taste for obscure literature, the macabre, or a bird book that is unlike all others?
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Book Review: Bel Canto by Ann Patchett— The plot is not the attraction of this book, but acts merely as a framework for Patchett's beautiful writing.
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