animal with training wheels

Mind the training wheels!

Awhile back, I stopped tracking fitness activities with my Apple Watch and Apple Fitness App. As a long time distance runner who tracked miles and pace for over 20 years before there were tracking apps (I stopped running at the age of 62, started at 18), letting go of fitness tracking was a big step….

Did my old clothes burn too?

Did my old clothes burn too?

Keeping with the theme of end-to-end behavior and consequence chains regardless of intent, a recent post in Grist prompted me to ask, “Did my old clothes burn, too?” Did my returned or donated clothing (my good intention) end up being sent to Chile causing human and environmental damage (my really bad output) without my knowledge?…

Reduce, reuse, recycle – get with the program!

Reduce, reuse, recycle – get with the program!

An article in “The Conversation” from earlier this year highlighted several key issues with consumer waste (and pollution). At first, the article seemed straightforward and simple with this headline. Decades of public messages about recycling in the US have crowded out more sustainable ways to manage waste The Conversation Plastic consumer waste a real problem The…

Crow & primate memory

Crow & primate memory

Ars Technica published a short article on Corvid memory linking a recent research article published in Nature. The Ars Technica post was titled: Corvids seem to handle temporary memories the way we do. Which goes toward an early post about humans not fully understanding the perception capabilities (and connected mental / physical activities) of different…