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  • Leaves turning.

    Monday, 31 July 2017, was my last day as paid staff at the University of Aberdeen. I have worked at Aberdeen since August 2004. With colleagues, I set up the...

  • It’s not a supervillain, it’s a sock.

    So I am trying to get Archibald ready to go to the pool, and it’s taken me ages to find his rain trousers (because it started raining, of course). Then...

  • Unexpected spreads

    By which I mean neither awful sandwich smears nor sprawling midriffs. This afternoon's beach walk confirmed my suspicion that last year's spring floods, which deposited quite a bit of sediments...

  • The yam question

    This is post recovered from 2010, when we were staying in Florida and working with Bron Taylor and Rick Stepp on a special issue of Religion, Nature and Culture on...

  • An adequate revolution: Copernicus or Kepler?

    The shift we are presently seeing in the sciences of life, society and consciousness are happening against resistance imposed by entrenched world views. If we are to move past the...