Category Archives: Animal Domestication

Aquaculture on Leonard Lopate

Posted on July 11, 2011 by Chris Jensen

Today The Leonard Lopate Show on WNYC featured a segment called “The Future of Fish” with Bryan Walsh  of Time Magazine. Walsh recently published a cover story in Time about the worldwide rise of aquaculture, the practice of raising domesticated … Continue reading →

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National Geographic’s “Science of Dogs”

Posted on October 30, 2010 by Chris Jensen

I have a rather ambitious list of courses that I want to offer in the near future. As I have indicated before, one of the liberating features of my job as a professor at Pratt Institute is that pretty much … Continue reading →

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The Tangled Bank: An Introduction to Evolution

Posted on October 3, 2010 by Chris Jensen

I am on the lookout for a new textbook for my non-majors Evolution course, so I was excited to check out Carl Zimmer’s new book “The Tangled Bank: An Introduction to Evolution”, published this year by Roberts and Company. For … Continue reading →

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The Quest for the Perfect Hive

Posted on June 7, 2010 by Chris Jensen

Gene Kritsky is a renowned bee biologist, so when I learned that he had written The Quest for the Perfect Hive: A History of Innovation in Bee Culture, I rushed to get ahold of it. I am very interested in … Continue reading →

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