Claudia Arozqueta's groundbreaking book available for preorder from MIT Press.

Rare Giant Mantis spotted in the Blue Mountains.

Hard to believe that some Australians take this guy seriously. #peterdutton

Apple, meet bowerbird.

Techbros quick in with the new circuitry of coordination/Gleichschaltung.

Livestock methane fire.

What is an Ecopath? I wrote this during the 2019-2020 Australian bush fires burning on both sides of the ridge I live on. Photo by Lynn Robb of remnants of the fires in Malibu.

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Insect yoga.

In 2005 I was bumped up to business on a flight from Chicago to Sacramento. I sat next to a major software firm CTO who was also a born-again Christian. We talked for the entire trip. He told me about using his wealth to fund The Creation Museum. Here's Adam in Garden of Eden with a penguin.

Can anyone help parse this poster? The top reads WORLD ALLIANCE, the next rung LEAGUE OF NATIONS, and then ONE UNIT, ONE FORCE, ONE SPEECH, ONE PRAYER, ONE TAX... and then the star with clusters of...? He's Australian chemist and musician Alexander Hector in 1950. #hist
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Two-page ad in the Scientific American special issue on Energy and Power (1971). Per power, both George Shultz and Caspar Weinberger from Bechtel would join the Reagan cabinet.
#envhist #energyhum

Scientific American, March 1923.