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Hardin's First Law of Human Ecology: "We can never do merely one thing. Any intrusion into nature has numerous effects, many of which are unpredictable."
 
  
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"I have no doubt that in reality the future will be vastly more surprising than anything I can imagine. Now my own suspicion is that the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we ''can'' suppose." J. B. S. Haldane
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Alma Hunter studied culture and cognition in New Caledonian crows. Due to life's exigencies she has a grant to study the corvid population in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrinking_cities shrinking cities]. Her praxis is about doing the best she can with what she can find. (Which might be a twig because she's learned a lot from those crows).
  
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"The whole is something other than the sum of its parts" - Kurt Koffka
  
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Alma Cazador is a behavioral ecologist working with the Detroit Zoological Society and the departments of Biological Science and College of Engineering at Wayne State University. She is a relatively new mage.
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"All life is bound together by mutual support and interdependence." - Jain [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasparopagraho_Jivanam declaration of nature], Laxmi Mall Singhvi
  
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You can often see her around the city peeking through binoculars or scribbling in a notepad. If she didn't wear her hair in a ponytail it would get caught in the zipper of her vest of many pockets or fly in her face. "ptwww fppt plah", she says, as it gets in her mouth.
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Her niece looks so somber.
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Alma has found all the sticks and stones. She's collected the voices: the first
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static of dispatch code transmissions, the words of grandmothers, the shouts of
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children, the huff of machismo. the buzzing of light. She's settled at the
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intersection where the swirling of leaves is keeping up with the windup of the
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sound from a streetlamp that is warming up. It could be the seven of swords she
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draws that decides her: She'll stay here for a little longer.

Latest revision as of 11:58, 2 February 2019

Alma Hunter studied culture and cognition in New Caledonian crows. Due to life's exigencies she has a grant to study the corvid population in shrinking cities. Her praxis is about doing the best she can with what she can find. (Which might be a twig because she's learned a lot from those crows).

"The whole is something other than the sum of its parts" - Kurt Koffka

"All life is bound together by mutual support and interdependence." - Jain declaration of nature, Laxmi Mall Singhvi

Alma has found all the sticks and stones. She's collected the voices: the first static of dispatch code transmissions, the words of grandmothers, the shouts of children, the huff of machismo. the buzzing of light. She's settled at the intersection where the swirling of leaves is keeping up with the windup of the sound from a streetlamp that is warming up. It could be the seven of swords she draws that decides her: She'll stay here for a little longer.

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