If you were confronted with the statue of a desert tortoise in the Las Vegas airport, how would you determine what it means?

Spring 2010 Curriculum:

• Spring 2010 21W.735 Syllabus
• Eiseley's The Star Thrower
• Price's a brief natural history of the plastic pink flamingo
• learning goal assessment form
• assignment 1
• assignment 2
• Thoreau's Where I Lived and What I Lived for
• Abbey's The Serpents of Paradise

pre essay reading

• genesis 1-9
• psalms 23, 29, and 103
• luke 12:22-34
• revelation 9
• Vergil, The Aeneid, Aeolus Raises the Storm (book 1:81-123)
• Vergil, The Ecolgues (take a peek)
• Wordsworth's Daffodils
• Pliny the Elder, Natural History (take a peek)
• Pliny the Younger, letters regarding the eruption of Vesuvius
• Aristotle

• John Muir American Forests
• John Muir The Water Ouzel
• John Muir A Perilous Night on Mt Shasta
• Rachel Carson, from Under the Sea-Wind
• Rachel Carson, from Silent Spring

  reading for the Thursday after spring break, April Fool's Day.

  • Schoepenhauer's Art of Controversy
  • Rush Limbaugh--complete, hilarious text available
  • Garrett Hardin Tragedy of the Commons
  • Lord Kelvin on the secular cooling of the earth>
  reading for thursday april 8
  • Bernd Heinrich from Bumblebee Economics
  • Jared Diamond What's your consumption factor
  • Jared Diamond Dirty Eating Habits
  • Jared Diamond Mankind's Worst Mistake
  reading for April 15
  • New Yorker book review There was Blood
  • New Yorker book review There was Blood image
  • New Yorker book review Green Collars
  • New Yorker cover image