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

Sunday, November 8, 2009

Cats: our feline friends, or are they?

(Cat eating a bird it has just killed.) About a decade ago I had a student in my Conservation Biology class named Scott Boomer. We were...

Thursday, November 5, 2009

Senecence sucks: The sleep clinic (part 5)

(This woman in the Sleep Clinic is sleeping like a baby---a robot baby.) Last week I had a sleepover at the hospital. My wife made me ...

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

What in the world is Danby?

(Make sure you come with a full gas tank. We have no gas station.) The late Carl Sagan, who was a professor at Cornell, once said th...

Sunday, November 1, 2009

Of invasive plants and Big Macs

(A McDonalds in Cairo. Your order please. Hamburger or hummus?) One of the first-hand observations I have made over the past few year...

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