Interesting Links Day 1: XKCD

For six days Phil is going to share web comics he enjoys.   Today is xkcd.com.  Just for today we’re going to take you to one of Phil’s favorites on XKCD.  For the next five days we will take you to the daily comic on each site. Click the comic to be taken to the […]

An update from The Guide to Phil’s Galaxy

Believe it or not… Phil has a day job! His clients are demanding that they get more attention than his website.  Don’t Panic!  Posting will resume once probability of 1:1, normality, is restored.  And don’t forget your towel.  In case you’re wondering, the answer is 42. In the meantime, Phil is going to post links […]

The PaPER and the Poets Three

This is another of Nanlee Haston’s poems. I’ve introduced her story in an earlier post, The PaPER and the Poets Two And a thousand giants of the land, took hold of humorand burned it at the stake: heretic of fate. As mothers fathers children dogs were turnedto bark at moons (too soon to recognize my […]

Calvin Jones, Florida State Archaeologist

I graduated from Florida State University with an Honors BA in Anthropology. It was directly a result of Calvin Jones hiring me in the summer of 1972. An Honors degree has the same requirements of a Master’s degree or Doctorate: original research, a committee, a thesis/dissertation and a defense! I will publish my thesis in […]

Introductory Lecture to the Man and Environment Course I Taught

This was the introductory lecture to the course I taught in 1969 and 1970 at the Miami Dade Junior College, called Man and His Environment (click here to see the brochure advertising the course). I think it is completely germane to our present day concerns! ECOLOGY Ecology: the study of the relationships between the different […]

I Was A Naturalist At A Young Age

When we moved to Miami in 1956 we lived in the historic (now, not then) Betsy Ross Hotel on Ocean Drive. The beach was across the street. Wow! From Brooklyn to Paradise. After a year Dad bought us a home in West Miami, near the famous Tamiami Trail. It was pretty much the western edge […]

Everglades

These are graphics that Phil helped create when he was on the research team in the Everglades.  Its purpose was to help people understand the impact of the local fauna on the formation of islands in the Everglades.