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Thirty Vertebrate Common Names Potentially Useful As Insults
By Chris Clarke on 2011 09 26 at 7:53:04 pm | 12 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x0xeInsulting people by comparing them to animals is nothing new, but in the English language we don’t put much creativity into the practice. Most animal-name insults are short, one syllable, four letters or fewer: “Dog,” “pig,” “ass,” “cow.” And we’re
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Climate, Biodiversity, and Colonizing the Desert (Three Maps)
By Chris Clarke on 2011 04 02 at 10:03:13 pm | 3 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x3kdI went to a conference today, and I learned some good things about which I will be writing shortly, but before I do that I wanted to share with you a couple of maps I saw at the conference, and a third I decided to put together myself to see what
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