Thanks to Lionel Kelleway and all the team at the BBC’s now discontinued Natural History Radio program, I have developed a pronounced recent increase in awareness of and fascination with Bryophytes – mosses, liverworts, and hornworts. Living in Oregon as I do, the development of such an interest is, despite what sociologists or my beloved […]
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Anti-favoritism
In the famous exchange on the subject of pastry in the musical Guys and Dolls, in rebuttal to Nicely-Nicely Johnson’s encouragement to try to the cheesecake or the strudel, both wildly popular, when it is discovered that the restaurant in which they are sitting is sold out of Danish that day, Nathan Detroit observes “That’s […]