“If you love birds as much as I know you do, how can you possibly eat them?” That was the question I was recently asked by a friend for whom I have great respect and whose interest in the answer I trusted to be wholly sincere. Truth be told, this is not the first time […]
John E. Riutta
About John E. Riutta
Posts by John E. Riutta, MA, MBA, FLS, MemRES:
Downloading for Improved Mental Health
Ordinarily, one of my favorite passive activities during the day involves listening to National Public Radio programming. From Morning Edition to All Things Considered, I formerly enjoyed keeping up to date on what was happening around the world. However with the state of the economy continuing to exhibit a negative atmospheric pressure in a vacuum […]
Falconer on the Edge
Falconry, steeped as it is in tradition and solitary as its practice out of necessity must be, is an enigma wrapped in a mystery.
Finding One’s Inner Nerd
Not long ago an asynchronous Twitter-mediated conversation arose between my friends Stephen, Sharon, and myself in which we were debating the relative levels of nerdery inherent in some of the different activities in which we and many of our other friends participate. From developing a professional expertise in the various gull species of the world […]