Questioning the Threshold for Stressors – a One Health lecture at OSU
“I was talking with a fisherman in a bar in Anchorage…” Thus began a lecture on “Amphibian Abnormalities and their Environmental Linkages: Observations and Musings after a Decade of Research” by ecologist Mari K. Reeves, with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Alaska. Reeves was speaking at Oregon State University on April 3, 2015, […]
De-Extinction: Rescue or Boondoggle?
On February 5th, 2015 a special conference on de-extinction titled, “De-extinction: Rescue or Boondoggle?” was held at the Memorial Union. Coming a few days after Elizabeth Kolbert’s visit to OSU to present on her recent publication The Sixth Extinction, the question of large-scale species loss was on the minds of those in attendance. Here two […]
Translating a Sixteenth-Century French Manuscript (at Columbia University, 2014)
An antidote against the fumes when working with molten metals: “eat a piece of thin toast with butter, neither antimony nor any other vapors will harm you. Or put half a pig’s bladder in front of your face.” (079v) Instructions for training a dog: “you need to keep your dog attached; when it does what […]
