Douglas visits Pt. Lobos, California

2023
The Year in Images

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John Gould, "Lettered Aracari" (1852)

Maria Merian, owlet moth (reprint)

[recent art acquisitions]
 
THE BOOK... IS DONE
Manuscript for To Err is Science is complete. 10years+ work.
Preview the   Preface and Table of Contents
 
MORE WRITING -- ON MISINFORMATION SACRED BOVINES COLUMN

  "Ten Competencies for the Science Misinformation Crisis"

  : "Marginalizing Misinformation—The Fast-and-Frugal Way"
simple flowchart from the Osborne Group report

"Was Genetic Coding a Frozen Accident?" (ABT, May) (w/ John Jungck)

  "The Quixotic Quest for Objectivity in Observation" (ABT, Feb) -- on observer bias

  "How ‘Green' Are Lawns?" (ABT, April)
  "Are Lawns Natural?" (ABT, May);
REVELING IN NATURE AT PT. LOBOS, CA
"CLOSE TO NATURE"
LANDSCAPING

Many trees lost to snow & disease

Trees regained (10 total):... oak

...maple...

...spruce...

....hornbeam
LOCAL COLOR

poppies a la Georgia O'Keefe?

Wild geranium

coral bells

new lupines

Euonymous in the fall.
EATING WELL IS LIVING WELL

flammkuchen (& fond memories of Germany)

cheese souffle

w.home-grown peppers

Chicken w/ parsnips, fennel & apricots

chicken biryani
THE YEAR PASSES IN MINNESOTA

Snow (well, EARLY in the year)

Nearby walks
North Shore

The turkeys return--17 this time.
Forthcoming:
  • "Transforming Science Education in an Age of Misinformation" (w/ Carl Bergstrom & Jonathan Osborne) (JCST, Jan., 2024)
  • "Science L.I.A.R.S.: A Game to Combat Misinformation" (The Science Teacher, Jan. 2024)
  • "The Gendered Lessons of Women Primatologists" (American Biology Teacher, March)
  • "Engaging History of Biology: Why Teachers Care and How to Succeed" (American Biology Teacher)
  • "Transforming History into Inquiry" (American Biology Teacher)
  • "Science Denial, or Science Deceit?"
  • "Error Repertoires" [contributing chapter]