The Unfeathered Bird: or, why I was in Laramie

Carlos Martinez del Rio, “cyborg naturalist”, polymath, bibliophile, horseman, game cook, teacher, and doubtless a host of other things I don’t know about yet,  is director of the Berry Center Biodiversity Institute at the University of Wyoming at Laramie. In that position, supervising an ever- expanding net woven between science, art, and nature, he decided …

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“Cyborg Naturalists”

Two Wyoming friends who I spent time with last week, Carlos Martinez del Rio and Jeff Lockwood, discuss a new concept of the naturalist. Among other things, I envy Carlos’s library!

Things to come…

I have been riding, eating, working, NETworking, TALKING, listening I hope, eating very well, looking at art, giving intros, looking at specimens, in Laramie, and a bit in Denver — patience! I have a deadline; then: wonderful things coming! Me with passenger pigeons, Denver Carlos Penelope and Libby Me, Old Gunkie, Malcolm Brooks, Ataika, Erdos…