Libbie & Douglas, settled in the security of home

2020
The Year in Images


All too familiar this year?
Home-baked sourdough

 
"Spring Creek, Dancing Waters"
(new pastel by Frederick Somers)
VERY MUCH AT HOME, LANSCAPING

 From stone circle to...

...new flower garden

Douglas, Forester

3 new aspen, 7 new rhododendron,
1 sugar maple, 1 redbud, 3 forsythia, 4 spirea
(VERY MUCH AT HOME, STILL) WRITING

THE BOOK: To Err is Science
 Ch. 1: "Honest Error"
 Ch. 2: "Error Itself"
 Ch. 3: "Error Types"

 "The Facts of Science and the Values of Social Justice"

 "Who Speaks for Science?"--expertise, media, and science con-artists

 "The Ecology of Meat"

[in print]  "Finding The Place of Argumentation in Science Education" (w/ Gabor Zé'mplen)
SACRED BOVINES continue for American Biology Teacher MnSTA Presentation

 "The Counter-roll in Science"
--history of controlled experiment

 "Role Models and Real People"
--Carlton Gajdusek & kuru

Oxford Univ. Press (2017)

 "The Covid Conundrum"
--credibility vs. evidence?

 "Covid & Credibility"
PUBLICATIONS NOW PROUDLY IN PRINT

 triple book review on error & public trust in science


 "Using Historical Inquiry to Learn Nature of Science Skills"


 "From Nature of Science to Social Justice"
"How We Think about Human Nature" (w/ Alex Werth)
 "The Naturalizing Error"
 [accepted] "Cognitive Errors and Concrete Remedies"
 


 "Reconceptualizing Nature-of-Science Education in the Age of Social Media" (w/ Dietmar Höttecke)

 "The Credibility Game" and  online presentation
AT HOME, BAKING (SOURDOUGH ADVENTURES)

first bagels

first English muffins

foccacia

rolls

oatmeal bread
AT HOME, BAKING (NO SOURDOUGH)

"SacherTower"--a riff on Sachertorte with apricot mouse

Brazilian pão de queijo

Lisbon chocolate cake  recipe

blueberry pie

party squares w/ chocolate & walnuts
AT HOME, CULINARY ADVENTURES & EATING WELL

Maqluba--spiced chicken, rice, tomato, eggplant, red pepper, cauliflower
 recipe

spiced ginger shrimp w/ exploded cherry tomatoes
 recipe

bruschetta--home grown tomatoes & basil on... home-baked sourdough!

grilled marinated flank steak, sweet potatoes, mango chutney

salad w/ grilled zucchini, basil, parmesan & hazelnuts
 recipe
AT HOME, GARDENING

Starting the zinnias indoors

zucchini

harvest every week, all summer long

visitor to the squash blossom
THE YEAR PASSES [AT HOME]

The Easter Platypus makes his international debut

 
AND ...


July 4th --- with sourdough blueberry pancakes

Phoning to get out the vote. (phew)

Holiday cookies:
lime-ginger-mango
orange-cranberry-rosemary
double chocolate-bing cherry
Keeping in touch with friends & family internationally with Zoom dinners

harvest on frost day in October

"I am Groot"
(CHIA PET)

Douglas, practicing covid equanimity

return of the snow

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