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Mountain laurel blooming at Lake Mohonk 4 Aug 2013 | 04:17 pm
Mountain laurel (Kalmia latifolia; Ericaceae) photographs from a June trip to Mohonk Mountain House in New Paltz, New York. If you’ve never heard of Mohonk, please have a peek at my other photos, mai...
Cicada killer on purple coneflower 3 Aug 2013 | 06:31 pm
Close-up of a cicada killer (Sphecius speciosus). A menacing insect even on a pretty flower. I assume it’s a male because it was patrolling this area aggressively. If you are interested in the biology...
Wish list for The Consortium for Plant Biotechnology Research 3 Aug 2013 | 04:36 pm
So I just paid my first legal bill for smacking down CPBR’s insane claim that I violated their copyright. I had naively hoped CPBR would offer a sincere apology and pay my legal fees (because they act...
Flies join mantis for lunch 1 Aug 2013 | 09:48 pm
In my years looking closely at mantids eating other insects, I’ve never seen flies getting in on the action like a wake of vultures. In other frames (not shown), flies are crawling all over the mantid...
It’s a trap! 31 Jul 2013 | 04:36 am
The New SmugMug was launched today, and users can migrate their legacy sites to the improved templates whenever they desire. But don’t press that button yet: converting to one of the new templates wi...
Photographs being updated 22 Jun 2013 | 07:04 pm
I just switched hosting services for my photographs, so many of the images on this site no longer link to my photo site. My sincere apologies if you had linked to, favorited, or pinned one of these i...
Teaching plagiarism by example 24 May 2013 | 09:18 pm
If you are in need of a slide showing famous plagiarizers, the one below might work for you. My suggestion is to show the image in class and ask students to choose the plagiarist they’d like to hear ...
Update on The Consortium for Plant Biotechnology Research plagiarism charge 7 May 2013 | 09:17 pm
Hundreds of people have been asking, so I wanted to give a quick update on the plagiarism charge brought against me by The Consortium for Plant Biotechnology (CBPR). But first, in the likely event th...
Vote for my betterific ideas 4 May 2013 | 04:36 pm
If you have a few seconds to support some half-baked ideas, here are mine: http://betterific.com/innovator/colinpurrington/6067 A sample idea is shown below (I hate people who throw cigarette butts ou...
Using Facebook as town Lost & Found bin 2 May 2013 | 06:15 pm
Going on multiple walks per day with a dog can be mind-numbing, so I entertain myself by looking for things: four-leaf clovers, dropped coins, interesting beetles, typos in signage, etc. As it turns ...
