And now for an embarrassing story…the “corn flake mushroom,” as I called it in my head, turns out to be, after months of frustrating research (well, really just hours over the course of a couple months) the extremely common… Crowded Parchment Fungus, considered by mushroomexpert.com to be “the most common, ubiquitous, ever-present, lost-all-luster fungus amongContinue reading “Early Spring Photos: Indiana”
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“Murder Most Foul” and the Mean World Syndrome
A little while ago I watched a great documentary about the work of a professor at UPenn on the effect of TV violence. He found that TV violence did not make people more violent themselves, but that it led them to believe the world around them was more violent than it really was. Seeing thousandsContinue reading ““Murder Most Foul” and the Mean World Syndrome”
War with the Newts
I have just finished reading Válka s mloky (War with the Newts) to keep up my Czech. Čapek wrote the novel in four months, and it took me almost that long to read it. As reading practice for a non-native speaker, it is perfect because a lot of different vocabulary comes up: economic, historical, political,Continue reading “War with the Newts”
Confusion with “Sycamores”
If you look for “how to identify a sycamore tree” on wikiHow you’ll come across one of those innumerable American English / British English differences constantly under our noses and yet so rarely noticed. To identify a sycamore we are told, we should first check for “small woody balls,” like so and then, as ifContinue reading “Confusion with “Sycamores””
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