Category Archives: Our Primate Nature

Two Feet on the Ground

Posted on October 24, 2012 by liveoaklinda

I just finished Nora Ephron‘s book, I Feel Bad About My Neck, a.k.a. “I Hate My Neck”. Omg, I hate my neck too: “You have to cut open a redwood tree to see how old it is, but you wouldn’t … Continue reading →

Posted in Cackling Crone, Our Primate Nature | Tagged bipedal, feet, foot, foot binding, foot massage, human primate, I Feel Bad About My Neck, new shoes, Nora Ephron, pedicure, primate, these boots are made for walking, walking | 5 Comments

When Sluggish Is Good

Posted on September 20, 2012 by liveoaklinda

Slugs have a bad rap…uh, sorta deservedly. Have you ever gotten up in the middle of the night, sleepily wandering to the kitchen to look at the waning moon or pour yourself a glass of water, when aacck!~ you step … Continue reading →

Posted in A Warming Planet, Just an Everyday Life, Our Primate Nature | Tagged 7 billion, climate change, future scary mind, hermaphrodite, meditation, Rael San Fratello, slug, sluggish | 5 Comments

E.T. Come Back!

Posted on September 2, 2012 by liveoaklinda

Science fiction was my reading of choice for more than a decade – during college & thereafter until the kiddies happened into our lives. Frank Herbert, Orson Scott Card, William Gibson, Ursula Le Guin, Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov…I thought there … Continue reading →

Posted in A Warming Planet, Our Primate Nature | Tagged asteroids, chicxulub, climate change, E.T., Frank Drake, human primate, invasion of the body snatchers, mass extinction, MIB, neil armstrong, orson scott card, science fiction, Ursula LeGuin | 11 Comments

Can Grandmas Have It All?

Posted on August 15, 2012 by liveoaklinda

There’s been no avoiding the latest mothers-who-also-have-paid-work debate, a.k.a. the mommy wars. Does anyone else out there think there’s something missing in this latest salvo? & no, I don’t mean the daddy’s, although one has to wonder what’s going through … Continue reading →

Posted in Cackling Crone, Just an Everyday Life, Our Primate Nature | Tagged 1970's, female primate, feminism, grandmas, having it all, mommy wars, primate, Shirley Conran, still can't have it all | 4 Comments

Bats in Portland

Posted on August 6, 2012 by liveoaklinda

Don’t worry, this isn’t about the Dark Knight. Well, maybe it is about the dark night & the bats that may come with it. Have you ever really thought about bats?? I hadn’t. I took a much-needed 4-day mini-vacation in … Continue reading →

Posted in A Warming Planet, Our Primate Nature | Tagged bats, evolution, five fingered bats, five-fingered mammals, Oregon zoo, primate, Rousettus aegyptiacus, tetrapods, white nose syndrome, zoos | 3 Comments

Schizophrenia Quartet

Posted on July 14, 2012 by liveoaklinda

1 A recent Facebook post asserted that “FB is schizophrenic…enough to make my head spin…!” A local hospital administrator misused the term in a public presentation, and a recent letter in the local paper ‘accuses’ U.S Supreme Court Chief Justice … Continue reading →

Posted in Just an Everyday Life, Our Primate Nature | Tagged homelessness, iCrazy, kelsey, mental health client action network, mental illness, paranoid schizophrenia, schizophrenia, schizophrenic, Shannon Collins, suicide | 21 Comments

Evolution Is Not Progress

Posted on July 8, 2012 by liveoaklinda

Don’t worry, I haven’t become a creationist! But for heaven’s sake, can we please stop using this misleading evolution graphic?? AND all the endless permutations of the same misleading “progress of man” theme…OK, some of them are funny, & some … Continue reading →

Posted in Humans Love Food!, Our Primate Nature | Tagged BBC evolution, evolution is not progress, evolution progress, human evolution image, human evolution progress, human primate, progress of man | 11 Comments

Next Movie: Disney-fied Bonobos?

Posted on June 24, 2012 by liveoaklinda

A few weeks ago, I talked my 8 year-old niece into seeing “Chimpanzee“, again. She’d already seen it & even though the reviews were so-so, I felt it was my duty as the everyday primate to see Disney’s take on … Continue reading →

Posted in Our Primate Nature | Tagged bonobo, chimpanzee, chimpanzee movie, pan paniscus, pan troglodytes, primate | 4 Comments

Yay For Pop-Science!

Posted on June 19, 2012 by liveoaklinda

I almost included “Good” in the title – as in Good Pop(ular) Science. But of course, good goes without saying. Just as we like good science, we should also demand good science communicated in ways that the general public can … Continue reading →

Posted in Just an Everyday Life, Our Primate Nature | Tagged evolution, evolution poll, human primate, neuroscience, pop-science, popular science, science communication | 2 Comments

What Would Samwise Do?

Posted on June 7, 2012 by liveoaklinda

So I’ve been doing alot of musing these days about loyalty, struggling with it, really. The loyalty stuff on my mind isn’t at all equivalent to the drama of trueheart Sam’s famous loyalty to Frodo & the Quest-To-Deliver-Middle-Earth-From-Evil…no, nothing like … Continue reading →

Posted in Just an Everyday Life, Our Primate Nature | Tagged E.O. Wilson, Frodo, human primate, Kuumbwa, loyalty, Middle Earth, Mount Doom, primate, Samwise Gamgee, science | 8 Comments