The search for life on Mars concentrates on geology and chemistry, not because life is entirely a business of geology or chemistry, but because a) those things can be measured and b) […]
What to Look for On Mars
Moss Going Weird in an Early Thaw
Ah, botanists, I have a mystery here. Perhaps you can help. What on earth is this moss in the image below? I was walking up on the Bella Vista Hills above Okanagan […]
Ponderosa Pine: The Tree at the Heart of a People
There is a tree that determines the home range of a people. This is the North Plateau Ponderosa Pine, known in Latin as pinus ponderosa Douglas ex C. Lawson. Wherever this tree […]
Who’s the Best Mouser of Them All (in the fog)?
Is it the coyote? Or is it the magpies? You gotta admit. They have a lot of eyes and beaks to devote to the task. But maybe it’s the great […]
There Is No “Post-” in Post-Colonialism
I walked up the hill across the valley today, to get into the fog. No, this isn’t today. This is the spring of 2012. But that’s part of the hill in the […]
Lost Knowledge: Apples and Culture
I weep. At the beginning of the 1980s, I grafted the first Fuji apples in this country, as part of an attempt to free us from the trade rules of the Canadian […]
Quantum Mathematics Without Numbers on Okanagan Lake
Gulls know a mathematics far beyond of Grade School. It’s simple. You cleave a line in two. That’s quantum mechanics. By moving, you maintain it as it spreads. Water helps. But lines […]
Searching for a Unified Theory of the Universe?
Mathematics is not made out of numbers. Look what the waves have been doing. The physical world is not science. Look what the waves have been doing. Photography is not about cameras. […]
Colonial Okanagan
The colonial period is not over. How do I know? Because the millions of dollars that have been spent on this beach at the head of the West Arm of Okanagan Lake […]
Black Holes and White Holes
You know how when a star collapses it makes a black hole? You can’t see it, of course, because even the light you might see it by falls into its gravity. But […]
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