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The Partial Observer
Geoengineering
This is a topic I’ve increasingly become involved with over the past few years. I’ve taught a couple of Geoengineering courses at Colby...
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Feb 22, 20255 min read
Disquisition of Nothing (or Everything)
Magnum Opus Novel Essay Elegy Chapter Verse Paragraph Sentence Words Syllables (Sleigh bells!) Letters Punctuation Parentheses...
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Feb 17, 20251 min read
Spliff’s Riffs: WTF!?!
Exciting, I get to introduce a new partner: I was fooling around on my Dad’s old Ham Radio set, and not knowing a capacitor from a split...
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Feb 14, 20255 min read


Getting a Season Back (at least temporarily)
Despite the fact that the planet just recorded it’s hottest January since human civilization developed the capacity to measure such...
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Feb 12, 20252 min read
I am Definitively, Absolutely, and Without Shame: Not a Politician.
With this title I hereby immunize myself against any criticism while I go on a political rant. After all, how many times has a politician...
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Jan 18, 20255 min read


Crows
This is a little piece I wrote years ago and posted on my BDN blog. As an undergraduate I had dreams of becoming an ornithologist or...
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Jan 10, 20253 min read
Vindified (along with short histories of Microbiology and Earth's past)
This is a word coined by my nephew during a high-stakes Scrabble match against his wife. Jed’s one of the most competent people I know,...
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Jan 4, 20258 min read
'Tis the Season
This is a Christmas poem I wrote, starting in the 2000's, at a verse or two a year it took nearly a decade. It aimed at a sense of...
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Dec 21, 20243 min read


Whither the Weather, Again
This was one of the first BDN blogs I wrote, nearly 10 years ago! Weather is a fun topic, and often an important one. Wonderfully...
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Dec 16, 20245 min read
A.I. my A.S.S.
These days it seems pretty much everything is artificial intelligence (AI) this and AI that. Will AI take over the world and wipe-out...
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Dec 8, 20248 min read
The Partial Observer Redux
A few years ago I started writing a blog, The Partial Observer, for the Bangor Daily News, the 2nd largest subscription newspaper in...
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Nov 27, 20243 min read
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