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Author Archives: Priscilla Stuckey, PhD
Our creative universe
So I’m at a party a dozen years ago in Oakland, California—I think it’s in my own living room, though I can’t remember for sure. Downstairs the salsa music is blaring, but up here people are gathered in threes and … Continue reading
Posted in nature
Tagged astrophysics, Big Bang, cosmology, dark energy, Saul Perlmutter, science, universe
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Now that the book is done
Yes, it’s finished! The project that consumed me for most of the past two years (and much of several years before that) is safely in the publisher’s hands. Best of all, the editor has glowing words to say about it … Continue reading
Slime mold: the new urban planner?
Paul Stamets, the visionary mycologist, or mushroom biologist, recently appeared again at the national Bioneers conference. I’ve been following Stamets’s work for some time, and so I eagerly watched his presentation—and then watched it again. The deep wisdom of fungi … Continue reading
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Tagged fungi, fungus, mushrooms, mycelium, mycology, Paul Stamets, science, urban planning
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Why I support Occupy Wall Street
In a word: health. The health of the planet. Put simply, a huge gap between the fabulously wealthy and everyone else is bad for the planet. Why? Because such a system is wasteful and costly. It’s wasteful because it allows … Continue reading
Posted in nature, politics
Tagged attitudes toward nature, climate change, ecological economics, economics, global warming, inequality, sustainability
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