Rats Inglorious Basterds – The Rat The first thing I thought of when reading about human attitudes towards rats was the above scene from Inglorious…
The excerpts of Darwin’s writing seem to have a sort of haughty air to them. The English breeders’ version of pigeons are far superior to…
On page 48, author Piers Vitebsky wrote that “the interior of the country was turned into a homogenized space in which Soviet citizens could be…
The first thing I thought when I finished Brad Kessler’s Goat Song? I should buy a goat… Then I realized I live in a three bedroom…
Zeder I thoroughly enjoyed this article, I think it addressed a number of nagging issues we talked about in class and gave a very clear…
** EDITS** Because I couldn’t make it to class last week, I missed a discussion that involved reading the stories on the author’s terms instead…
From Trust to Domination The Cree example on page 7 seems less like the archetypal example of a hunter gatherer society and more like a…
Buillet Chapter 5 I like Buillet’s ideas concerning the lack of direct human knowledge or intervention in domestication. The accidental domestications he describes (such as…
Chapter 1 Picking up this book the prospect of reading 79 pages at once (my original plan) was a little bit daunting, but I’m already…
ENERGY AND ECOSYSTEMS This chapter begins by lamenting the human impact on the environment and the constant changes to the environment as a direct consequence…
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