Imagine spending a thousand lifetimes caring for these lands only for billionaires to exploit them in an instant – the same way colonists exploited the people.
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Loss
When people see me, they see an American. I sound American. I live in America. I have an American partner and son. I was born in America. But what exists on the surface is not always true. I’m also half German.
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A One Health Take on Halloween
This is a reboot of a post I made a year ago when I first started my blog. It is no less relevant today – maybe even more so with our current political leadership obstinately ignoring environmental health concerns and families struggling with a government shutdown. That said, here is a piece on Halloween!
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A Funny Fight Against Tyranny
It was a place where history and our current political crisis met for the afternoon to have a chat and a few laughs over a drink and (for me) some noisy pizza.
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Travel: A Giant Rock and a Mix of Cultures, but also Monkeys
Did you know there is a British territory, a peninsula, connected to Spain via a sandy isthmus (which mostly holds an airport)? It is known as Gibraltar (Arabic: Jabal Tariq) and the bulk of the terrain is a giant rock, aptly named “the rock of Gibraltar”, with a smaller area of low, flat land surrounding the rock, which is where most of the houses, hotels, shops, and restaurants are, as well as the ports, obviously. Gibraltar generates most of its revenue through the UK military, tourism, as well as the shipping industry that brings in exports and such – but I’m not an economist, so this is the least interesting thing about Gibraltar to me.
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Silence of the Swallowtail
“It’s easier to run down the mountain than to walk it!” my partner shouted to me as we were descending Humpback Rock. Except, he wasn’t the one carrying the backpack with our waters and half-eaten charcuterie box from the day before (precariously wrapped in a cup and some napkins).
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A Fractured State of Mind
I’ve got a bit of writer’s block this week and it is in no small part a result of a mind swirling with a million racing thoughts about society, none of which have much to do with One Health.
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Travel: Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia
This past weekend we took a little trip out to the mountains in Virginia. It’s also their wine country, but we never quite made it out to any vineyards. Here is what we DID do and whether I recommend any of it.
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After Virtue, After Invasion
Continue reading After Virtue, After Invasion“Imagine that the natural sciences were to suffer the effects of a catastrophe. A series of environmental disasters are blamed by the general public on the scientists. Widespread riots occur, laboratories are burnt down, physicists are lynched, books and instruments are destroyed. Finally a Know-Nothing political movement takes power and successfully abolishes science teaching in schools and universities, imprisoning and executing the remaining scientists.”
Cheers, to all of the Women Out There (and Piss on the Men Who Wish to Hold us Down)
My right to vote is a spritely gal of 105. August 26, 1920 was sincerely a day to be celebrated, yet often gets overlooked.
In honor of the anniversary of the 19th Amendment, I’d like to note a few things about the women of our past and honor who they were and what they accomplished.
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