After more than a week alone at home, with incipient bronchitis, and thriving on dubious pseudofood, I am back in my office. Somehow, I am not convinced it is a good idea. Highlights of the latest forced homestaying: - Getting a 1 p.m. - 4 a.m. circadiam rythm - Understanding that kebab-laced focaccia is not …
Monthly Archives: September 2010
Why did they win?
Why did insects win? The question, to me, is not peregrine. Arthropoda include a lot of moderately to robustly successful terrestrial groups: Arachnida and the classes below subphylum Myriapoda (millipedes, centipedes and siblings) among all others. Yet, imagine a world without millipedes: would you really notice? Imagine a world without arachnids: there would be no …
A call to whistleblowers in geophysics: make Enzo Boschi irrelevant
This blog/site is still very much a thing in progress ; yet I can’t stay silent on what I’ve just read on La Repubblica. For non-Italian speakers: Apparently, prof. Enzo Boschi, head of the Italian Geophysics and Vulcanology Institute, is talking about “not making our data available via Web anymore, because they are used to …