How much oil does it take to bring you your water?
Probability Zero
Thirteen years ago I wrote my one and only effort at fiction. Analog, the science fiction magazine, had a feature of very short stories called “Probability Zero”. I do not know WHY I never submitted it, but I have just come across it among my old papers and have decided to publish it myself here. […]
Taxes Fight Fires
Why wasn’t Newfoundland part of the Canadian Federation until 1949?
Canadian Confederation was the process by which three British North American provinces—the Province of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick—were united into one federation called the Dominion of Canada, on July 1, 1867. On March 31, 1949, it became the 10th and most recent province to join the Canadian Confederation as “Newfoundland”. How’s this for […]
Philip’s Luddite Museum
In descending order: EEPROM 8″ floppy disk 5 1/2″ floppy disk 3 1/4″ floppy disk Compact Disk Hard Drive platter
Phi Kappa Phi
Phi Beta Kappa
The Adaptive Paradigm in Cultural Ecology
More About The Monarch Butterfly
Don’t Look Up!
From 1967 to 1969 I was part of the Hydrobiology Research Team in the Water Resource Division of the U.S Geological Survey (see John Wesley Powell ), Department of the Interior. Our charge was the first scientific study of the ecology of the Everglades. Not like the writings of naturalists such as Margorie Stoneman Douglas […]