Albert Borgmann, Holding on to Reality

Back in the early 2000's I had an interest in the digital representations of animals online, and how animals cams create an imaginary biogeography. I read this 1999 book below, "Holding On To Reality" by Albert Borgmann. It has a lot to say then about the importance of the context of information, and how the internet separates us from that context and creates a slippery slope of ambiguity. I am struck now by its prescience and how it anticipated the rise of fake news and alternate facts.

Taoist Tai Chi Society

These are photos from a Taoist Tai Chi intensive we had in Lexington last year. We now have classes at a couple of locations in town three days a week.

BioScience

In this BioScience article, we describe barrier island dune topographic state space. Presently, my PhD student Li-Chih Hsu and I are characterizing dune topographies along barrier islands in Virginia and Maryland. We want to examine where these islands will plot in the larger state space outlined in this BioScience article, as originally developed in Monge and Stallins (2016) in Physical Geography.

Space and place are the new DNA

Genomics, postgenomics? Omes, omics, proteome, transcriptome, exposome?  Here is a primer on some of these biological concepts.  In our recent article in GeoJournal, we describe how this new biology relates to geographical concepts about the productivity of space, spatial fixes, and the fallacies of spatial inference.