I’ve written before about using bark to identify trees in the winter, but sometimes bark can be ambiguous and it helps to have another tool up your sleeve. Knowing a bit about buds just gives you that much more evidence to go on. One of the first things looking at buds will tell you isContinue reading “Winter Tree ID: Buds”
Monthly Archives: November 2020
Wahoos and Other November Color
The Eastern Wahoo is one of the handful of idiosyncratic plants that defy the general greyness of November. Also called “burning bush,” it is native to the Midwest, and gets the name Wahoo from the Dakota language, in which it means “Arrow-wood.” (“Wahoo” is also the name of a tropical game fish, and a CreekContinue reading “Wahoos and Other November Color”
Reading “A Brief History of Neoliberalism”
David Harvey sheds light on a question I have asked before on this blog in connection with Peter the Great: Why do we obey? Or rather, why do people sometimes act against their own best interests? Why do the many “let” the few take advantage of them? This question is perhaps not as mysterious asContinue reading “Reading “A Brief History of Neoliberalism””
Neoliberalism in Contemporary Czech Fiction
I have at last finished Pavla Horáková’s Teorie Podivnosti, a book chosen more or less at random from the pool of “highly-acclaimed contemporary popular Czech fiction” as a kind of experimental sampling. What is Czech literature currently like? How is it different from American popular literature, and what kind of world-outlook does it evince? ToContinue reading “Neoliberalism in Contemporary Czech Fiction”
recycled paper clips 