Lily Magee

Lily gets to go along on the fun hiking and camping trips with her new loving forever parents Julie and Greg!

SPI 2009

Little One

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sleeping late
Santa Fe
sailboarding
snow skiing
suntans
sailboats
solitude
sexual chemistry
Sundance catalog
snow days
sordid gossip
spa treatments
shrimp po boys
serendipity
Smithwick's Irish Ale
soft faded blue jeans
Steven Jordan (artist)
spaghetti
Southwind Inn (windsurfing motel)
solid wood furniture
Spanish appetizers (tapas)
summiting
sibling/sister
simple pleasures
selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors
science
scientific method
Science Times
sublimation
St. Angela Academy alumni
siestas
September

Amen Goosebumps

Amen. Goosebumps. Wish I had been there.

I really want this job ~

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090113/od_afp/lifestyleaustraliatourismoffbeat_20090113032028

Fate of Biodiversity

Where does biodiversity go from here?
A grim business-as-usual forecast and a hopeful portfolio of partial solution

A *very* interesting and informative article about the possible fate of biodiversity ~ predicts its continued demise if we proceed with business as usual but a more optimistic fate to the extent that 7 specific suggestions can be implemented ~

The abstract ~

http://www.pnas.org/content/105/suppl.1/11579

The full text ~

http://www.pnas.org/content/105/suppl.1/11579.full

A pdf file of the full text ~

http://www.pnas.org/content/105/suppl.1/11579.full.pdf+html

A couple of good quotes from the article ~

p. 11579
"Yet despite a ballooning number of publications about biodiversity and its plight, there has been dispiritingly little progress in stanching the losses -- so little that some commentators have characterized applied ecology as 'an evermore sophisticated refinement of the obituary of nature'." (1)

p. 11583
". . . a compelling analogy: 'as books are uninteresting and useless to an illiterate person, so is biodiversity uninteresting and useless to a bioilliterate person'." (2/3)

(1)
Jackson JBC (2007) Economic incentives, social norms, and the crisis of fisheries
Ecol Res 22: 16-18
(2)
Janzen DH (2004) Now is the time
Phil Trans R Soc London B 359: 731-732
(3)
Janzen DH (2005) in Plant Conservation: A Natural History Approach
eds Krupnick G. and Kress J.
University of Chicago Press
pp. ix - xiii