Archive - treethinking

On de-extinction for High Country News

A more critical take

May 8 •

February 2025

Science as an inefficient process

Hull, Hofstadter, and justifying research to a skeptical public

Feb 27 •

January 2024

Variability and our perceptions of a warming planet

Jan 29, 2024 •

July 2023

Grackles and academic nomadism

Jul 17, 2023 •

March 2023

De-extinction and Redemption

On the persistent allure of raising the dead

Mar 27, 2023 •

December 2022

The ethics of personal vehicles in an era of climate change

Dec 30, 2022 •

August 2022

Running and the Monk

Buddhism, attachment, and the Cascade Crest 100

Aug 4, 2022 •

June 2022

A few words on ticks

Loving the dangerous and repulsive

Jun 29, 2022 •

May 2022

On the fires in New Mexico

When it’s calm in town, reminders of the fires can catch you off guard. When it’s blowing in town, the fires are all you can think about.

May 12, 2022 •

April 2022

On writing and not writing

When I am struggling to write—and you may have noticed I have been struggling to write—I think of it as a problem with two parts.

Apr 19, 2022 •

February 2022

Sometimes I learned I was someone I could be proud of. Sometimes I learned I was someone who would kill a six pack and watch an entire season of Archer.

Feb 3, 2022 •

January 2022

A Geography of Hummingbirds

If you had to choose one bird for all the Americas what choice would you have but a hummingbird?

Jan 20, 2022 •

#nojs-banner { position: fixed; bottom: 0; left: 0; padding: 16px 16px 16px 32px; width: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; background: red; color: white; font-family: -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px; } #nojs-banner a { color: inherit; text-decoration: underline; } This site requires JavaScript to run correctly. Please turn on JavaScript or unblock scripts