Joshua Brown
Senior Communications Officer for Science and Environment
802-656-3039
joshua.e.brown@uvm.edu

• The Big Day (Vermont Quarterly) I spent 24 hours following four hard-core birders around Vermont as they went after a state birdathon record, including a 4am hike up Camel's Hump.
  

• Worried Sick Take a sharp pencil and poke through your ear into your brain a few inches until you hit an almond-shaped region called the amygdala. Or read this article instead.
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• Talking Extinction with The New Yorker's Elizabeth Kolbert Since 1999, Kolbert has covered the environment for the world's most prestigious magazine. Her book, Field Notes from a Catastrophe, won many prizes.  I spoke with her about climate change, the future of journalism and backyard bees.
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• A Deadly Mystery (Vermont Quarterly) As bats perish by the millions, Vermont biologists are leading the effort to understand the devastation of white-nose syndrome. Article and slideshow.
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• The Beetles Best Fans (UVM Today) For decades, Ross and Joyce Bell have been hunting for beetles from the deserts of Mexico to the rotting logs of New Guinea. Especially the rotting logs.
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• If You're Happy, Then We Know It  (UVM Today) Two researchers have created a "hedonometer" that shows Election Day was the happiest day in four years. Michael Jackson's death, one of the unhappiest.
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• Talking Cancer and Complexity with Stuart Kauffman  (UVM Today) Stuart Kauffman is famous for arguing that biology must look beyond Darwin. I spoke with him about complex systems, cell biology, religion and the limits of human understanding.
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• When Good Maples Go Red pdf format (Rutland-Herald) What makes maples go red one year but yellow the next? Scientists are on the case--and wondering whether climate change means the end of leaf-peeping as we know it.
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• Talking Carbon with the Prime Minister of Norway (the view) At forty-one, Gro Harlem Brundtland, a physician and mother of four, took on a new job: prime minister of Norway. Now, she's the UN enoy on climate change. I spoke with her about carbon levels, Sarah Palin, and the global poor.
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• Drilling Down (Vermont Quarterly; cover article) What can ice can tell us about heat? The fate of the world’s sea levels rests largely on the ice of Antarctica, where scientists such as UVM geologist Thomas Neumann are searching for clues to the future in the frozen past.
• Plug-in Hybrids Rate Less than $1 per Gallon  (Rutland-Herald) With gas approaching $4 a gallon, plug-in hybrid electric cars like this one — donated to the UVM Transportation Research Center by Central Vermont Public Service — could provide consumers with another alternative to reduce the costs of the daily commute. (Click here for pdf format)
• Talking Climate with the New York Times' Andrew Revkin (UVM Homepage) How far are humans pushing up Earth's thermostat? Andrew Revkin, the prize-winning New York Times science writer, visited UVM to discuss his more than 20 years exploring this question. I spoke with him to learn more about what he thinks it means to live on a warming planet.
• Tracking in the Wild, Learning from the Land (Vermont Quarterly) An animal track is more than a mark in mud or snow that says a fox or flock of turkeys passed by. It’s a lens into a shadowed world of animal intentions. It’s a Proustian naturalist’s cake dipped in tea, the single strike of claw and toe pad summoning a vast ecological narrative for those with skill to read what’s there.

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