Author Archives: liveoaklinda

Making Peace with Ants

Posted on December 7, 2015 by liveoaklinda

Got ants?!… .. ….. ……. .. … …. .. ….. . . … …. …… … …. .. …….. .. OK…it’s the drought. It’s the rain. It’s global warming. No really, it’s those ineffective ant stakes. Or just … Continue reading →

Posted in A Warming Planet, Just an Everyday Life, Our Primate Nature | Tagged ants, Argentinian ants, EO Wilson | 5 Comments

What’s so special about Homo naledi?

Posted on November 22, 2015 by liveoaklinda

Unless you live in a cave yourself, it would’ve been hard to miss the big news about a new kind of hominin recently unearthed from deep inside a nearly-inaccessible South African one: Homo naledi. The fossilized bones of this newly-discovered … Continue reading →

Posted in Our Primate Nature | Tagged John Hawks, Lee Berger, open access, paleoanthropology, rising star cave, south africa | 4 Comments

Grandmothers & Other Newly Remarkable Hominins

Posted on October 18, 2015 by liveoaklinda

Back in the studio after a summer hiatus, greedily chomping on multi-colored cows, tractors & bunnies, a (really only-slightly-satisfying) snack that ended up in the computer bag after rejection by the 6-year old grandson. Well, he at least demonstrated his own … Continue reading →

Posted in Cackling Crone, Humans Love Food!, Our Primate Nature | Tagged grandmas, grandmother hypothesis, human longevity, Kristen Hawkes, male competition, male-guarding, man the hunter, menopause, pair-bonding, women aging | 4 Comments

Burn8: Costume Season

Posted on August 31, 2015 by liveoaklinda

Ahh – finally tuning into murmurs of fall – had already felt the slipped angle of the sun, but that favored burn & gold season is now unmistakably in the air as well. During these recent burning hot summer days … Continue reading →

Posted in A Warming Planet, Burn Series, Cackling Crone, Just an Everyday Life | Tagged burning man 2004, circle of life, closet capers, costuming, eastern access, gatsby, halloween, jack o'lanterns, mask making, mask with glasses | Leave a comment

Dig Those Roots

Posted on August 11, 2015 by liveoaklinda

There’re so many amazing science stories in the daily news – it’s hard to keep up. Yeah yeah – now you know my pathetic excuse for another two-month post-lapse. Since we all know the topic I love most though, I … Continue reading →

Posted in Cackling Crone, Humans Love Food!, Our Primate Nature | Tagged carbohyrates, human evolution, Karen Hardy, roasted roots, root vegetables, uso, women digging roots | 3 Comments

Flight Paths & Funerals

Posted on June 8, 2015 by liveoaklinda

Sadly, our Live Oak home is no longer underneath the SFO flight path. For decades I would lie in bed, trying to fall asleep, when I’d hear the approaching muted, far off roar of a jet, presumably from Shanghai or … Continue reading →

Posted in Cackling Crone, Just an Everyday Life, Our Primate Nature | Tagged dying too young, flight path, luck of the draw, mah jongg, malaysia flight 370, sfo flight path changes, timing is everything | 11 Comments

Evolution for Everybody

Posted on May 20, 2015 by liveoaklinda

I know polls say not even a majority of Americans accept that evolution is a result of natural processes, but this fact is nevertheless the #1 choice of a recent California central coast art cabal. This admittedly-not-scientific poll over the past … Continue reading →

Posted in Our Primate Nature | Tagged 17th Avenue Studios, evolution, the upright thinkers, zoonomia | Leave a comment

The Drone Age

Posted on April 30, 2015 by liveoaklinda

About a year ago, a nephew excitedly revealed his new electronic toy at an afternoon family BBQ at our home. Since I had just that morning, while preparing the meal, dropped a pot of boiling water on my leg (which … Continue reading →

Posted in Cackling Crone, Just an Everyday Life, Our Primate Nature | Tagged buzzing flying toys, drones, griffinflies, personal drones, uas, unmanned aircraft systems | 3 Comments

Not Aging Well

Posted on April 7, 2015 by liveoaklinda

These days, if I stand still too long, my (thankfully-still-functional) feet seem to sink noticeably further into that squishy phase of contemporary (North American female human) life when one can no longer ignore the preponderance of pop-ups, adverts, magazines, robocalls, inserts, … Continue reading →

Posted in Cackling Crone, Just an Everyday Life, Our Primate Nature | Tagged aging, antibiotics, benefits of bipedalism, boomers, bucket list, getting old ain't for sissies, grandmas, gravity, neoteny, women aging | 7 Comments

1-11-15 from 1115

Posted on January 11, 2015 by liveoaklinda

Finally catching my breath in the new year. Can I still say it or is it just too yesterday? – well whatever – I wish it for you. A Good Year. Jeez, what a relief that the ‘holidays’ are over … Continue reading →

Posted in Cackling Crone, Just an Everyday Life, Our Primate Nature | Tagged female bonding, happy new year, old friends, primate grooming, women's health collective | 3 Comments