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Kyle Birchard

@kylebirchard

Environmental and Economic Services Professional

 Portland, Oregon
integrativeecon.com
Joined June 2010
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Sometimes, plants glow. wired.com/2017/01/craig-burr… via @WIRED
12 Remarkable Photos Capture the Light That Plants Emit

12 Remarkable Photos Capture the Light That Plants Emit

Sometimes, plants glow.

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Computational photography. Check it out: thecomputationalphotographer…
Have a Banana. On Second Thought, Don’t. nyti.ms/2pAo9yx
Have a Banana. On Second Thought, Don’t. (Published 2017)

Have a Banana. On Second Thought, Don’t. (Published 2017)

In “Never Out of Season,” Robert Dunn looks at how modern societies make themselves vulnerable to crop devastation.

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As annoying as the term "stack" has become, maybe it means people will stop using "ecosystem" in the tech context nyti.ms/2omkXqE
New Technology Is Built on a ‘Stack.’ Is That the Best Way to Understand Everything Else, Too?...

New Technology Is Built on a ‘Stack.’ Is That the Best Way to Understand Everything Else, Too?...

People from nutrition geeks to philosophers are using a metaphor from software to describe the world.

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Multi-benefit flood risk management and ecosystem restoration: sfbayjv.org/featured-project…
“On the loveliness of mediocrity” — @mercatus medium.com/conversations-wit…

Malcolm Gladwell Wants to Make the World Safe for Mediocrity (Ep. 20 — Live at Mason)

“I think that it would be really useful to ban graduates of elite colleges from ever disclosing that they went to an elite college.”

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Start around 29:50 “The Democratic Surround” on #Vimeo vimeo.com/84076327?ref=tw-sh…
The Democratic Surround

The Democratic Surround

The Democratic Surround: Multimedia and American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties A Conversation with Fred Turner and Clay Shirky at the Institute for Public Knowledge at NYU...

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An oldie but a goodie: Tom Waits on his cherished albums of all time gu.com/p/xtc6q/stw
In Search of Mud to Save San Francisco Bay blogs.scientificamerican.com… #science
Fascinating article on the Marshallese Wave Pilot tradition: nyti.ms/1UC6hyu
The Secrets of the Wave Pilots (Published 2016)

The Secrets of the Wave Pilots (Published 2016)

For thousands of years, sailors in the Marshall Islands have navigated vast distances of open ocean without instruments. Can science explain their method before it’s lost forever?

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