Life at DrTom's

DrTom shares his intellectual inquiries, mental musings, and awkward adventures in upstate New York and around the world. Betcha can’t read just one.

"To hell with facts! We need stories!"
— Ken Kesey

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Senescence sucks: Prologue

(DrTom feels sort of like this man looks, but his body doesn't know that.) senescence : a biological term that basically means agin...

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Gulliver, the red-eyed vireo

(Red-eyed vireo) One morning in June a few years ago, I went out onto the deck to have my morning coffee. I heard a loud begging squawk of...

Sunday, September 13, 2009

The taming of the shrew

(A nest of Northern short-tailed shrews, only a few days old.) Yesterday I found the first nest of northern short-tailed shrews ( Blarina...

Saturday, September 12, 2009

Let's talk about the word "data"

(The data show a downward trend.) A pet peeve of mine is the abuse of the word "data", and it has been bugging me for years. S...

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