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The Best Photograph of the Year

Posted in Nature, tagged , on December 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Last week I made my nomination for the most important economic chart of the year. Now here’s my nomination for best photo: Yes, that’s a photograph. National Geographic’s Frans Lanting captured these camel thorn trees silhouetted against dunes welcoming the rising sun in Namib-Naukluft Park. I love the photo for its sheer beauty and the [...]

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Visiting Brazil? Skip the Amazon and Head to the Pantanal

Posted in Life, Nature, tagged , , on September 12, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Posting has been light in recent weeks thanks to a two-week sojourn in Brazil and a week recovering therefrom. I mostly turned off my inner economist to get in touch with my inner Darwin. So I have only a handful of economic observations: After arriving in Rio, the car that picked us up was made in China, fueled [...]

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Incentives and Property Rights, Dead Raccoon Edition

Posted in Life, Nature, tagged , , , on May 9, 2011 | 9 Comments »

It seems like only yesterday that I met Rocky. Probably because it was yesterday. Our smallest cat Caramel was staring intently upward. Following his gaze, I spied Rocky tucked between two branches high in the silver maple near our deck. Rocky didn’t look well. Raccoons aren’t usually out and about at 3:00 on a sunny [...]

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We Are Not Going To Die

Posted in Life, Nature, tagged , on September 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

It’s quiet weekend, so please forgive one more item from my recent sojourn in southeast Alaska. If you are a regular watcher of nature documentaries, you know that Alaska’s humpbacks employ a unique feeding technique called bubble-netting. A group of whales will corral herring in a wall of bubbles, push them to the surface, and [...]

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I Found What I Was Looking For …

Posted in Life, Nature, tagged , on August 22, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Just back from eight days in southeast Alaska. I won’t torment you with too much of a travelogue (my wife and I have another blog for that; so far it covers the first day of the trip). But I will note that we did find puffins, glaciers, and humpback whales, as wished in my last [...]

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The Hot Tentacle

Posted in Behavioral Economics, Finance, Nature, tagged , , on July 11, 2010 | 3 Comments »

The World Cup started with vuvuzelas and ended with Paul the octopus. The world’s most famous cephalopod grabbed headlines by correctly predicting the winners of eight straight World Cup matches, including today’s victory by Spain over the Netherlands. I’ve enjoyed Paul’s exploits, but his success got me wondering: just how many animals are out there [...]

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How to Defeat the Lionfish? Use Your Knife and Fork

Posted in Life, Microeconomics, Nature, tagged , , on July 8, 2010 | 1 Comment »

As regular readers know, I am intrigued by animals in weird places (voles in the Rose Garden, grey whales in the Mediterranean) and quirky discussions of property rights (guacamole, overhead bins, snow shoveling, office lunches). So imagine my delight when I opened the Food section of the Washington Post to discover an issue that brings [...]

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A Gray Whale Goes Really Off Course

Posted in Nature, tagged on May 12, 2010 | 5 Comments »

Gray whales usually live along the eastern and western edges of the northern Pacific. Except for the lone individual who somehow turned up on Israel’s Mediterranean coast. As reported by AFP: The appearance of a grey whale off the coast of Israel has stunned scientists, in what was thought to be the first time the [...]

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