Author: wbtd
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Angry weather
The rain and hail are raging at the windows. Again. The wind is pummeling the walls and roof, again. There’s a red weather warning just south of us, again. Earlier...
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What is my dog’s religion: exposing Eurocentric biases in OpenAI models.
When I teach courses on anthropology of religion, I like to start by asking students if they have a dog. This is more fun than asking if they have a...
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The lost railways at our door
We have lived in Donmouth for about 17 years now, long enough to have found interesting details in the landscape. Soon after we arrived, back when the salmon nets still...
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Stewardship, IPCC, and Indigenous Knowledge
Stewardship? In the run-up to COP26, a high-profile team of climate and biodiversity specialists published an opinion piece in PNAS Rockström et al 2021 in which they called for ‘biosphere...
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A certain kind of joke.
I learned another joke from my son Hugh this morning, and it seems to me structurally similar to one of my favourite jokes. In this short post, I will give...