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Hardin's First Law of Human Ecology: "We can never do merely one thing. Any intrusion into nature has numerous effects, many of which are unpredictable."
 
  
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"I have no doubt that in reality the future will be vastly more surprising than anything I can imagine. Now my own suspicion is that the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we ''can'' suppose." J. B. S. Haldane
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Alma Hunter studied culture and cognition in New Caledonian crows. Due to life's exigencies she has a grant to study the corvid population in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrinking_cities shrinking cities]. Her praxis is about doing the best she can with what she can find. (Which might be a twig because she's learned a lot from those crows).
  
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Alma Hunter is a visiting behavioral ecologist from the [https://www.psych.auckland.ac.nz/en/about/our-research/research-groups/new-caledonian-crow-cognition-and-culture-research.html Cognition and culture in New Caledonian crows] research group at the University of Aukland. Due to life's exigencies she has a grant to study the corvid population in Detroit. Her magery is all mixed in with the exigencies and her field of study.
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"The whole is something other than the sum of its parts" - Kurt Koffka
  
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She has recently obtained guardianship of her [[Maria_Hunter-Alvarado|niece]].
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"All life is bound together by mutual support and interdependence." - Jain [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasparopagraho_Jivanam declaration of nature], Laxmi Mall Singhvi
  
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She is not a mad scientist, but if she were she might come out to people like [https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2012-03-26 this]. It would make that Haldane quote go to eleventy.
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She currently has a girlfriend (and her boyfriend) on the other side of the world. She doesn't know how the LDR is going to work. (also she gets yelled out for infantilizing people by calling them girls and boys but she always forgets)
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Alma has found all the sticks and stones. She's collected the voices: the first
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static of dispatch code transmissions, the words of grandmothers, the shouts of
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children, the huff of machismo. the buzzing of light. She's settled at the
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intersection where the swirling of leaves is keeping up with the windup of the
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sound from a streetlamp that is warming up. It could be the seven of swords she
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draws that decides her: She'll stay here for a little longer.

Latest revision as of 11:58, 2 February 2019

Alma Hunter studied culture and cognition in New Caledonian crows. Due to life's exigencies she has a grant to study the corvid population in shrinking cities. Her praxis is about doing the best she can with what she can find. (Which might be a twig because she's learned a lot from those crows).

"The whole is something other than the sum of its parts" - Kurt Koffka

"All life is bound together by mutual support and interdependence." - Jain declaration of nature, Laxmi Mall Singhvi

Alma has found all the sticks and stones. She's collected the voices: the first static of dispatch code transmissions, the words of grandmothers, the shouts of children, the huff of machismo. the buzzing of light. She's settled at the intersection where the swirling of leaves is keeping up with the windup of the sound from a streetlamp that is warming up. It could be the seven of swords she draws that decides her: She'll stay here for a little longer.

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