In the United States, if one has an iPhone or Android, you have access to the internet regardless of where you are, so long as you are not in a cave or on the top of a mountain. But Cuba is not like that. Internet is sparse, and where it does exist it is slow […]
Cuba, at last
I did not know what Havana would look like. I imagined a warped paradise of sunshine and communism. Here we are, day four and the manifestations and clues of paradise and a failed communism surround us in a brightly-colored hodge podge. Clouds of black diesel smoke bloom behind cars, nightclubs of mulatto women drinking with […]
Rotoiti Field Research
The gifts of Aotearoa ask very little from the passive observer; the ones who gaze with a complete loss of words through no fault of their own but from the simple fact that there exists no language, no combination of words, nor any string of adjectives that can truly capture the beauty of the land. […]
Veggie-Mites unite to take on Rotoiti
The year is 2015. The setting: Lake Rotoiti, New Zealand. A group of 4 intrepid explorers are tasked with an important… task. Doing science. And if they weren’t sure what kind of science they wanted to do yet, they at least knew that they wanted their study to involve plants. And bugs, too. And so […]
Australia Day and beyond
Sorry this took so long to post, there have been a few technical difficulties, but here is some summary of our time back in Sydney during the week of Australia Day! We’ve been busy travelling around and learning about the vast diversity of culture here in Australia. I guess the place we last left off […]