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TEDx Amazonia: Quality of Life for All Species, Part 1

Part 1: intro to TED, my speech at the conference Part 2: Highlights of other TEDx Amazonia Talks, especially from Amazonians Part 3: Critical look at the Entrepreneurially Minded TED speakers

I was so annoyed that I improvised an opening lament/complaint about it when I gave my Talk in the first of six […]

Drought in the Amazon!

From the plane: the meeting point of the Rio Negro and Rio Solimoes, which going east from here become the Amazon River.

Famously, the yellow muddy Rio Solimoes and the dark clear Rio Negro come together at this point where Manaus is, but the two waters don't mix much for a […]

Last Tango in Zagarolo!

After my whirlwind tour of Italy (with a day in Switzerland too), I made it back to Rome on Friday, Oct. 8, in time to help Rossella Ottaviani (aka Santa Graziella) celebrate her birthday. Her husband Livio, another stalwart of the local cycling and Nowtopian scene, met me at the Termini station and after an […]