One of the greatest challenges of writing a science blog is that I generally have 800 words to describe something extremely complex. Take my blog on Lyme Disease. Lyme disease has many hosts, from ticks [...]
Climate Change Denial and Human Ingenuity
In my job I get to learn a bit about the common arguments against climate change. As I’ve mentioned before, the new charge is not that it doesn’t exist, it’s that it is just too [...]
Spider Claus is coming to town: climate change and giant spiders
It’s Christmas morning, and if you’re like many people, Santa left you all sorts of lovely presents under the tree. Toys for the kids, slippers for dad and a “back massager” for mom (true story). [...]
Save yourselves, kill the chipmunks
Growing up in New England, there are several things you learn from an early age to be true. Number One: Yankees suck. Even if you don’t like baseball, you know this to be true. They [...]
The Future is Paradise to Parasites
Being a biologist, there are very few things that disgust me. When we find road kill, biologists don’t think “oh gross,” or “oh sad,” we think “oooh, can I dissect that?” and then later “what [...]
The Climate Change Coffee Connection
Living in Berkeley, I am at high risk of becoming a neo-hippie. There is extreme external pressure to eat raw, gluten-free foods, vote for politicians with spirit animals guiding them, and decorate my house in [...]
The ocean is a fruit cake or why pollution is so delicious
As we move into the holiday season, many of us are giddily making plans for the food that we’ll be stuffing down our gullets. Turkey or Tofurkey? Christmas ham or vegan seitan? Fruit cake, gingerbread, [...]
The Trouble with Truffles: the effect of climate change on good taste
Being married to a food writer, you would think that at the end of the day our two jobs would have little in common. Of the two of us (me climate change blogger, he professional [...]
Corpses, Cadaver bugs and Climate Change
When I started taking classes in Biology, I had my eyes on becoming a doctor. I signed up for all of the appropriate intro classes, started researching medical programs and considered different volunteer opportunities to [...]
House hunters: the climate change edition
As part of my job, I’m required to go to conferences on climate change and education. This is always fun—who doesn’t love breaking away from the office?—but also sometimes rather shocking. I actually choked on [...]
