David Kerstetter, Ph.D.

This is a fundamental divide. I wish that more people knew that you can be happy in your own corner of the world without blocking access to the larger global experience for everyone else.

You didn’t need to speak Spanish — or be Puerto Rican — to feel that pride and joy in tonight’s show.

A whole half of a Super Bowl without a single TD? Saying it’s “a defensive masterpiece for both sides” is just… sad.

Confirmation that Gen X is the target market for this Super Bowl’s advertisers.

Wetlands vs. development: Miami-Dade’s battle for environmental integrity continues | Opinion Levine Cava says she has a responsibility to protect wetlands and the fragile South Florida environment. She does. So do the commissioners. | Opinion

Editorial: Battle boils down to crucial wetlands vs. greedy developers as one #Florida county tries to protect its Everglades sprawl boundary from being breached by builders. www.miamiherald.com/opinion/edit... via @miamiherald.com

It wasn’t as completely as strong or developed in the show, of course, but the Rom/Nog relationship was also a pretty positive father-son synergy over the series arc.

A robust, functioning Free Press is fundamentally incompatible with an oligarchy. For those in the back, this really isn’t that difficult to understand.

Even one thumbs-up onlooker is too many. We’re sadly seeing a lot of broken moral compasses these days.

It’s cold (for South Florida) — same Friday night boat, if with somewhat smaller horses.

The Trump admin has shut down the CIA’s World Factbook, a country reference that for six decades has provided data on birth and death rates, major exports, and more. Long used by government officials and by researchers, educators, and journalists, the database was taken offline today.

I grew up with the WaPo. This is a public murder of an American institution.

The Department of Biology, Ecology and Evolution at the University of Liège is currently seeking a permanent scientist in marine biology. The position is based at Liège, Belgium, but is also expected to conduct research at their Underwater and Oceanographic Research Station in the Mediterranean.

Discovery will be delicious, assuming that they don’t get away with delaying until irrelevancy.

Then act civilly, act legally, and act ethically. ICE officers are doing none of the above. Read the room.

Anyone know anything about this bluefin tuna article a colleague sent me? There's neither the scientific paper listed nor an email for the author (may be genAI). Thanks, folks.

www.theindiankingcoffeelounge.co.uk/02-163924-gi...

One of my favorite musicians -- and former artistic advisor to the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center -- on the latest ensh*ttification by this (mal)Administration.

Sure seems like a great time to ask Congress what they'd do if someone tried doing an East Wing on the Center.

Note the new website, too — “tkc.co”, FFS.

Lots of variants on this theme, but all of them also — if unintentionally? — dismiss society-based interactions (bowling leagues, Scouts, church groups) that make such societies work.

It’s not an intentional omission.

These lines are from David French's opinion column in the NY Times yesterday. It makes perfect sense for an Administration that (a) knows facts and logic are not on its side, and (b) is populated by damaged individuals who know neither love nor community.

Florida Panhandle residents rally to save a rare coastal dune lake • Florida Phoenix Florida is chock full of amazing phenomena. We’ve got the Lake Wales Ridge, an ancient sand dune stretching down the center of the state, far from the nearest ocean. We’ve got the Devil’s Millhopper, ...

Column: #Florida Panhandle residents rally to stop a big threat to a rare coastal dune lake -- from their own county. My latest for @floridaphoenix.com also includes shout-outs to Nancy Reagan, Monty Python and Arsenio Hall. floridaphoenix.com/2026/01/29/f...

Even before ICE went into overdrive mode, the World Cup was starting to get "Berlin Olympics in 1936" vibes.

Feds and state pull out of annual Everglades conference. Was Alligator Alcatraz the reason? State and federal officials who had been scheduled to attend the conference in Naples this week said Wednesday they would not attend, leaving organizers scrambling to replace speakers.

Feds and #Florida state officials suddenly pull out of annual Everglades conference -- most likely because they don't want to answer questions on Gov. Ron DeSastrous' polluting concentration camp in the River of Grass. www.wlrn.org/environment/... via @jenstaletovich.bsky.social

Walz should show Homan the video of the ICE agents mooning protesters at that Minneapolis motel on Monday, then show him the door.

What Is a Government Without Experts? I think often of a line I came across years ago, when researching presidential science advisors: "Richard Nixon did not want science advising and took steps to be sure he would not get it." This is th...

Idiocracy.
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All at Roberts’ hands, too. There used to be federal employee union and regulatory backstops. His Court owns all this.

The wordsmithing to accomplish this goal is an indirect sign of all the significant behind-the-scenes support he needs.

The correct answer is an immediate: “That’s a silly question — no sovereign nation’s leader is expected to ‘take orders’ from another.”

Any other answer is revealing and disqualifying.

The problem will always be that people who don’t do the homework have equal votes — and often vocal, deliberate opposition — to those that do.

If only Bari Weiss had the resources to report this!

What Americans Lose If Their National Center for Atmospheric Research Is Dismantled - Eos Five ways dismantling NCAR will cost the American people, and two ways to save it.

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Nor are any of these enforceable, with even court orders being ignored.

We need to get back to carrying a firearm by LE as being a right earned, not a privilege assumed. I'd love to see some FOIAed training records for ICE.