Awhile ago, I wrote about the New Zealand colonists’ attempt to wipe out local species as a…
What we consider “natural” is never a static form, but a constantly changing and mutating thing…
We’re an interesting species. Let no one say that, for all our faults, a lack of creativity…
The phrase “cultural keystone species” was introduced in 2004 in a paper by Ann Garibaldi and Nancy Turner. The whole paper is available to read online, and its worth reading. The idea is similar to that of the ecological keystone species; a species which has a huge effect on its…
Below is the full version of the talk I gave at today’s Lost Levels. Some of it I have covered in my past post on baboon games, but since then I’ve been thinking more about how our knowledge of animal play can be used by us artists:
While I’m still technically involved in academia, I’m doing my best to take advantage of my access to the wealth of academic papers and journals normally kept behind paywalls and other gates. I really, REALLY wish this stuff was more widely available, because there is so much useful and…
