Timothy
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Science |
| Occupation | Research & Teaching Assistant |
| Location | Ste Anne de Bellevue, Quebec, Canada |
| Introduction | I'm a postdoc at McGill University. I do biostatistics with science and engineering graduate students. I have a Ph. D. in plant physiology. I have an M.Sc. in weed biology and ecology. My B.Sc. was in agro-ecosystems management. |
| Interests | Agricultural ecosystems, books, Cape Breton, biostatistics, climate change, crop production, ecoanarchism, ecovillages, enchantment, español, food, forest gardening, gardening, herbs, history of the tarot, Kochia scoparia, literature, lucid dreaming, medicinal plants, non-hierarchical group decision making, nonviolent direct action, plant biology, plants, probability, Reclaiming, re-enchantment, research methodology, SAS, science, statistics for plant biology, traditional Wabanaki agriculture, urban horticulture, weeds, and the effects of microbe-to-plant signals on Brassica napus (L.) development, growth, seed oil quality and yield |
| Favorite books | Candide by Voltaire, Days and Nights of Love and War by Eduardo Galeano, Island by Alastair MacLeod, Jazz by Toni Morrison, Lucid Dreaming by Stephen LaBerge, Metamorphoses by Ovid, Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock, Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood, Paranoia: the twenty-first century fear by Daniel Freeman and Jason Freeman, Queen Mab by Percy Bysshe Shelley, Statistics for Terrified Biologists, Stolen Harvest by Vandana Shiva, The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights translated by Sir Richard F. Burton, The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham, The Lord of Chaos by Elizabeth Boyer, The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey, The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin, The Oxford English Dictionary, The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein, Trust Us We're Experts! by Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber, Truth & Bright Water by Thomas King |
If mud is dirt plus water, what is clay?
Clay is soil of which the mineral particle diameters are <0.002 mm.