Greetings from the scrub
For the past six months I’ve been working as an avian ecology intern at a vibrant, wonderful biological station in (not so vibrant, wonderful) south-central Florida. In exactly one week I’ll be packing up...
Tagged: North America
Scripts, memory, war, and disaster
I seem to be the only one posting on this Uni blog, but I don’t want to dominate things. Let me start by encouraging others to post comments on previous posts and to make...
Thoughts about empire
In the introduction to Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science, and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico, author Laura Briggs goes on something of a tangent about the constitutional status of Puerto Rico vis-a-vis the United...
More on Polaris
(Updated to include more articles and context.) By the way, lest you think that only blog commenters are interested in the region of the Polaris nominees, look at the coverage in the National Post...
Greetings from the Explosion City
After a splendid, two-week vacation in China and some time recuperating from having a wisdom tooth extracted, I’m now in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where I spend my says (six of them a week), in...
