tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76849033349380212302024-03-13T22:53:36.199-07:00ParasitesThis blog is for anyone who is interested in talking about parasites in a relatively philosophical, or even symbolic, sort of way. "Parasites" includes parasitic ideas, too! Parasitism is the most common way of life on earth, yet the vast majority of people, including biologists, believe it is something to be ignored. That attitude is simply wrong. JJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07202161189995028524noreply@blogger.comBlogger100125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684903334938021230.post-20495539825269528102017-04-11T08:41:00.002-07:002017-04-11T08:41:27.014-07:00Comments on the keynote speech to Alpha Chi Honor Society<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Speech at Louisville</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> – John Janovy,
Jr.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Last
fall I was invited to give the keynote address at the national Alpha Chi
convention in Louisville, Kentucky. Alpha Chi is a national honors organization;
most of the chapters are at smaller colleges and universities; students in the
top 10% of their class are eligible for membership. The invitation was issued
by Bill Clemente, an English professor at Peru State College, who is vice-president
of the national council. The convention was held last week, April 6-9; attendance
was maybe five or six hundred, including students and faculty members. The
invitation to be their keynote speaker was a major honor. The title of that
talk was, of course, “Life Lessons from a Parasite.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
title was chosen mainly because the Alpha Chi theme is Transcending Boundaries,
and of the things that parasites do well, at least as species, it’s to transcend
boundaries, particularly ecological ones. Thus the life cycle of a typical
trematode is wonderful material to use metaphorically, and of course I chose <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Posthodiplostomum minimum</i> as my subject.
This trematode lives as an adult in fish-eating birds; eggs are shed and first
stage larvae develop in snails; cercariae emerge from snails, penetrate small
fish, and develop into infective stages. These larvae end up in various
tissues, including the eyes. Prevalence varies over the years, depending on how
the South Platte River flows, which in turn is based on Rocky Mountain
snowpack. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">You
can see immediately where this narrative is going. A parasite that infects the
eyes influences how the host sees the world. A parasite whose prevalence in
fish depends on Rocky Mountain snowpack is a parasite whose life is controlled,
in part, by events that are distant in time and space. These kinds of
relationships are easy to turn into metaphors. For example, we might ask the
question: what do the following items have in common?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Zika virus,
Ebola virus, influenza, HIV, Cryptosporidium parvum, MRSA, mumps, measles,
tuberculosis, Dengue, Giardia intestinalis, West Nile virus, cholera,
Cyclospora cyatenensis, SARS, MERS, Lyme borreliosis, poliovirus.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
answer is pretty obvious, namely, that they move through populations by way of
various mechanisms; some folks get infected; others are shielded or immune; and
everyone, especially people in positions of power and responsibility, needs to
understand both the mechanisms by which these agents move through populations
and the consequences of such movement. We could easily, of course, ask the same
question about the following items:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Snapchat,
rumors, fake news, smart phones, money, handguns, rap music, selfies, Pokémon
Go, torn jeans, Middle Eastern names, “immigrant,” plastic water bottles, “LGBTQ,”
“abortion,” recipes, bad ideas, lettuce and broccoli, car parts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Again,
the answer is pretty obvious, namely, that they move through populations by way
of various mechanisms; some folks acquire or accept them; others are shielded
from them, or reject them; and everyone, especially people in positions of
power and responsibility, needs to understand both the mechanisms by which
these agents move through populations and the consequences of such movement.
Furthermore, some are only words (LGBTQ, immigration, abortion) that elicit
strong responses in people, others provide power (money, guns), and still
others enter our personal realms by way of the media and because of distant
events over which we have little or no control (Middle Eastern names).</span></div>
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some point toward the end of this talk I used the term “divisiveness” as an
example of a meme that had taken on significant power in recent decades. In
other words, it is an entity that is moving through our population, producing
reactions, depending on the prior exposure of the recipient. During the
question and comment session that followed, two students made comments that I
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whereas in the past, it had been a driving force for people to participate in
the political process, and indeed to effect change. I agreed with her
completely. The other student asked whether I thought that divisiveness could
function as a vector, carrying along other memes, or enhancing the extent to
which those carried-along memes were accepted or rejected. I had to not only
agree completely with this student, but it seemed to me that his idea might be
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JJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07202161189995028524noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684903334938021230.post-37689727959558282442016-08-29T14:03:00.003-07:002016-08-29T14:11:50.310-07:00Descriptions from The Gideon Marshall Mystery SeriesI know, they're not about parasites, except for parasitic ideas that get into the heads of powerful people and make them not only do stupid stuff, but also drag others along with them. I'm also posting these descriptions here, instead of on the Friday Coffee blog because a publisher to which I've submitted <i>Africa Notes: Reflections of a Semi-Educated Tourist</i>, said that a blog link to a sample of previous writing was okay as part of the proposal. So I put that sample up on fridaycoffee. Here are the four (so far) Gideon Marshall Mysteries:<br />
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CAREFUL, DR. RENNER</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Dr.
Clyde Renner is dead, apparently of a heart attack. Leonard Branch, campus cop
at Renner’s small liberal arts college, is convinced there’s more to Renner’s
demise and Gideon Marshall, paleontologist, plays host to a parade of
characters with a stake in the autopsy. In the end, Marshall discovers not only
the perfect murder, but also ideal weapons of mass destruction.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Dr.
Clyde Renner, professor of geology, chair of the department, world renowned
expert on volcanoes and earthquakes, and intellectual giant, is dead,
apparently of a heart attack, alone in his insect-infested house. Leonard
Branch, campus cop at Renner’s small liberal arts college in Iowa, is convinced
there’s more to Renner’s demise than appears on the death certificate. Gideon
Marshall, paleontologist, now acting chair, plays host to a parade of
characters, including R<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">e</span>nner’s bullied secretary and accountant, a belligerent
female prof, an untenured young scientist and his hot-headed coed paramour, her
wealthy helicopter parent, Renner’s estranged gay son and his computer geek
husband, and the college president; all are involved in various ways with Clyde
Renner’s distinguished career and all have a stake in the autopsy results. In
the end, Marshall accepts the fact that he’s probably discovered not only the
perfect murder, but also ideal weapons of mass destruction.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">THE
STITCHER FILE</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">After
the brutal execution-style shooting of a geology prof, paleontologist Gideon
Marshall gets dumped into an even more complex mess than the one a year earlier
in this sequel to BE CAREFUL, Dr. RENNER. Marshall is put under house arrest
because of a note found in the deceased’s hands. RENNER, it turns out, was a
victim of a perfect murder scheme. STITCHER is a different matter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">With
another death at his small, Forbes-listed, liberal arts college in Iowa, Gideon
Marshall, unwilling and temporary chair of the Geology Department, gets dumped
into even a bigger and more complex mess than he experienced as a result of the
first one a year earlier. Instead of the simple heart attack and stroke that
felled his predecessor, which was the perfect murder of a despised faculty bully,
Marshall now deals with the brutal execution-style shooting of a geology prof,
this one a female whose personality has earned her the nickname “Becky
Bitcher.” THE STITCHER FILE is a sequel to BE CAREFUL, Dr. RENNER. In THE
STITCHER FILE Marshall is put under house arrest because of a note found in the
deceased’s hands. The victim is found on an ice-covered railroad crossing by
the Geology Department accountant. Law enforcement descends on the site, and
Marshall ends up with an ankle monitor. Many of the same players that plagued
Gideon Marshall in BE CAREFUL, DR. RENNER re-appear in new roles, along with
new characters from various law enforcement agencies. RENNER, it turns out, was
a victim of a perfect murder scheme. STITCHER is a different matter.</span></div>
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EARTHQUAKE LADY</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
brutal murder of a scientist at geologist Gideon Marshall’s upscale liberal
arts college in Iowa remains unsolved. A request from the Department of
Criminal Investigation, to determine the origin of dirt in ten plastic bags,
sends Marshall on a trek through Oklahoma oil fields and turns him into a
crucial prosecution witness whose testimony will have global implications. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A
brutal murder at Gideon Marshall’s upscale liberal arts college in Iowa remains
unsolved. A Department of Criminal Investigation detective and the Polk County
medical examiner show up in Marshall’s office on a bleak Friday afternoon with
the victim’s autopsy report, a box of plastic bags, and a request to determine
the origin of dirt samples. Paleontologist Marshall is about to become a
crucial prosecution witness because of his ability to identify materials in
those bags. The DCI request sends Marshall and his wife Mykala on an adventure
that begins with concealed carry training and weapons purchase, continues on a
trek through Oklahoma oil fields posing as inspectors, and ends with an arrest
that is certain to bring Marshall into direct confrontation with Big Oil, Big
Money, and the Department of Defense.<br />
THE EARTHQUAKE LADY is the third Gideon Marshall Mystery. The stories center
around the potential danger of scientific discoveries and the sometimes
eccentric lives of people who make them. Marshall is dragged into efforts by
various people to control the discoveries of a genius-level scientist, a former
faculty member in his department, this unhappy woman—Rebecca Stitcher—who was
the murder victim. Stitcher’s theoretical research in geology could empower a
nation to produce ideal weapons of mass destruction, namely large volcanic
eruptions, earthquakes, and tsunamis occurring at times and places chosen on
purpose. Needless to say, there many people interested in this possibility, and
all of them eventually descend on Gideon Marshall’s small liberal arts college
in Iowa. As Marshall’s perceptive wife Mykala says to him: “Gideon, it’s just
beginning.”</span></div>
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WEATHERFORD TRIAL</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Geology
prof Charlie Weatherford is arrested for murder of a colleague who’s maybe
solved the problem of making big earthquakes occur on purpose with fracking
techniques. Connie Bergen, attorney for the company supporting Weatherford for
proprietary access to research, is sent to defend him. The trial brings out the
deadly potential of scientifically illiterate men in high places.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">An
execution-style murder, a dashing young prof, competing expert witnesses, and a
Big Oil civil lawyer dragged into his first criminal case combine to uncover
the power of belief regardless of truth.<br />
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Dr. Charlie Weatherford, dashing young geology prof at Cavanaugh College in Iowa,
is arrested for the murder of a colleague, Rebecca Stitcher, reputed to have
solved the problem of making major earthquakes occur on purpose, using
hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) techniques developed by the petroleum
industry. Connecticut “Connie” Bergen, a civil attorney for Stevens Oil, Inc.,
the company supporting Weatherford for proprietary access to research results,
gets on a company jet bound for Des Moines, sent by owner Delmar Stevens
himself to defend Weatherford. This is Bergen’s first assignment in a criminal
case, and he’s met at the airport by Amber Buchanan, a mysterious woman with
various roles in Stevens Oil, Inc., whose job evidently is to guide him through
the legal labyrinth surrounding this murder. It’s not obvious that anyone, even
Weatherford, cares whether he’s convicted or acquitted. <br />
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The Weatherford Trial leads us through the Iowa Department of Criminal
Investigation witness protection efforts, Bergen’s handling of forensic
geology, competing expert witnesses, and Bergen’s education at the hands of
Amber, until the jury adjourns to arrive at a verdict. The Weatherford Trial is
the fourth Gideon Marshall Mystery. As with the first three books, this one
brings out the deadly potential of seemingly arcane ideas, the phenomenon of
scientific illiteracy in high places, and the power of belief regardless of
truth.</span></div>
JJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07202161189995028524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684903334938021230.post-86972955346296963312013-08-03T06:02:00.003-07:002013-08-03T06:02:59.260-07:00The True Legend of the Concrete Tapeworm<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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The True Legend of the Concrete Tapeworm</div>
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John Janovy, Jr.</div>
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There once was a beat-up, white-painted, wooden building
that sat in a wooded depression across the road south from the Lake McConaughy
spillway in Keith County, Nebraska. That building had been the headquarters for
the crew that build Kingsley Dam, the enormous earth-filled structure that
impounded the lake called “Big Mac.” During the early 1980s, the Central
Nebraska Public Power and Irrigation District decided to “finish” Kingsley Dam
by putting a hydroelectric plant into the spillway, a rather formidable but
interesting task. That building had mainly been used by fishermen as a
convenient restroom, but Central moved it out of the woods and down to a site
near the Cedar Point Biological Station’s White Gate. See TEACHING IN EDEN,
RoutledgeFalmer, 2003, for the complete analysis of the White Gate’s influence
on American higher education. Obviously, late at night, over beers outside the
White Gate, there was plenty of discussion about that building, the wisdom of
Central’s decision to build the hydro plant, what might happen to it after the
project was finished, and, of course, parasitology.</div>
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Central used the building to store various construction
supplies. I was director of the CPBS at the time, and we needed some additional
research space, so Ron Randall, who was the CPBS facilities manager at the
time, and I did an inspection of the building and decided it might be useful.
Ron said something like “it needs a new roof, new siding, new floor, and new
wiring, but other than that, it’s in good shape.” The timbers were 1930s-era,
and very solid. After the hydro plant was finished, I asked Central if we could
have the building and they said “yes,” although we had to move it.</div>
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Ron rented a Bobcat, and although he did most of the work, I
got to drive the Bobcat and did some of the excavation at the site, at CPBS,
that had been formerly occupied by a green mobile home used as a research lab
by several workers. After the building site was level, we dug the footing
trench and Ron called in the concrete truck. After the footing was poured,
there was some concrete left over, so I asked the truck driver if he’d pour a
string of concrete in the space that would eventually be beneath the building’s
floor. He did, and I shaped that string of concrete into a very large tapeworm
sculpture, maybe 10 feet long. A local mason was hired to lay the foundation,
and Star Moving Company from Hershey, Nebraska, moved the building from the
White Gate to its new site, setting it gracefully on the foundation (but not
without knocking a couple of blocks off, which had to be replaced before the
building could be lowered).</div>
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There were barn swallow nests on the building, just under
the eaves, when it was outside the White Gate, and those birds followed the
building as it made its journey in to CPBS. That’s why the building is now
named The Swallow Barn. Ron did virtually all of the updating and repair, and
The Swallow Barn was used as a research facility, mainly by parasitologists,
for years before it was remodeled into living quarters.</div>
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During the summer of 2013, there was some reason for people
to get beneath that building, maybe because of a needed air conditioning
repair. A couple of students, I believe, crawled into the crawl space (which is
fairly generous, but you can’t stand up in it), and confirmed that yes indeed,
like in a true intestine, that concrete tapeworm still lies there in the dark,
absorbing all the parasitological wisdom that’s been brought into The Swallow
Barn by the various people working above it’s concrete scolex.</div>
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JJ </div>
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On the other hand, sometimes a
problem can turn into a positive experience. Not long ago, standing in front of
a large auditorium full of freshman students, three ladies in the back of the
room simply would not shut up, and the laughing seemed to be disturbing those
around them. So I kicked them out of class. As you can imagine, the other 257
people in that room were very attentive for the rest of the period. But I got
an e-mail later that day from one of those who’d been sent out:</div>
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<pre style="margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: 24.0pt; margin-right: 42.0pt; margin-top: 0pt; tab-stops: 30.0pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">JJ</span></pre>
<pre style="margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: 24.0pt; margin-right: 42.0pt; margin-top: 0pt; tab-stops: 30.0pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I was asked to leave your class this morning and </span></pre>
<pre style="margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: 24.0pt; margin-right: 42.0pt; margin-top: 0pt; tab-stops: 30.0pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I just wanted to say that I am sincerely sorry for my</span></pre>
<pre style="margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: 24.0pt; margin-right: 42.0pt; margin-top: 0pt; tab-stops: 30.0pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">actions. I am ashamed and I honestly meant no </span></pre>
<pre style="margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: 24.0pt; margin-right: 42.0pt; margin-top: 0pt; tab-stops: 30.0pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">disrespect to you or my classmates. Make no mistake, </span></pre>
<pre style="margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: 24.0pt; margin-right: 42.0pt; margin-top: 0pt; tab-stops: 30.0pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I was very humiliated by being asked to leave class. </span></pre>
<pre style="margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: 24.0pt; margin-right: 42.0pt; margin-top: 0pt; tab-stops: 30.0pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I really was paying attention to your lecture </span></pre>
<pre style="margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: 24.0pt; margin-right: 42.0pt; margin-top: 0pt; tab-stops: 30.0pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">and final exam preparation discussion, but I did allow </span></pre>
<pre style="margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: 24.0pt; margin-right: 42.0pt; margin-top: 0pt; tab-stops: 30.0pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">myself to become momentarily distracted and I take </span></pre>
<pre style="margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: 24.0pt; margin-right: 42.0pt; margin-top: 0pt; tab-stops: 30.0pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">full responsibility for that lapse of judgment. Please </span></pre>
<pre style="margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: 24.0pt; margin-right: 42.0pt; margin-top: 0pt; tab-stops: 30.0pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">understand that I am not writing this in order to argue </span></pre>
<pre style="margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: 24.0pt; margin-right: 42.0pt; margin-top: 0pt; tab-stops: 30.0pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">my actions as acceptable, because I was in the wrong, </span></pre>
<pre style="margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: 24.0pt; margin-right: 42.0pt; margin-top: 0pt; tab-stops: 30.0pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">but I just wanted to tell you that I am sorry. </span></pre>
<pre style="margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: 24.0pt; margin-right: 42.0pt; margin-top: 0pt; tab-stops: 30.0pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Respond if you wish, but I just thought you should know.</span></pre>
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I responded. And the fact that
this student sent the above message means that at the end of the semester, if
she is a tenth of a point away from the next highest letter grade, I’ll move
her up. But the real lesson is that no matter how anonymous or hidden you may
think you are in a large auditorium, a teacher can probably see you and
recognize immediately whether you are contributing to the overall academic
atmosphere or being a distraction to your classmates. Fifty minutes is not very
long. Just sit there, pay attention, and at least look like you’re taking
notes, glancing up at the screen or blackboard periodically, even if you’re
busy writing a poem or a letter to your significant other.</div>
JJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07202161189995028524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684903334938021230.post-64811871650370976542012-12-31T12:54:00.000-08:002012-12-31T12:54:30.372-08:00Excerpt from CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN GOD AND SATAN<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">“I think there’s a typo in the Bible,” said Satan. “Remember,
right in the beginning, when I’m a snake and there’s this apple tree? I think
that when you wrote ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">not</i> eat of the
Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil’ that what you really meant was ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">now</i> eat of the Tree of Knowledge of Good
and Evil.’ I mean, if You’re going to let them evolve those big brains, maybe
You should let them know what’s good and bad?” Satan sipped on her coffee and
looked over at the next table where a college kid was eating a brownie. “I
think I need a big cookie full of macadamia nuts,” she said; “I heard macadamia
nuts are really high in calories and have lots of fat.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">The whole book is available as a paperback at www.createspace.com/3431482 or on Kindle and Nook. </span></div>
JJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07202161189995028524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684903334938021230.post-46830536924360239402012-12-28T03:46:00.005-08:002012-12-28T03:52:02.892-08:00Bohemian coffee cake recipe and demo<a href="http://www.johnjanovy.com/bohem_cc.pdf">Bohemian coffee cake recipe and demo</a><br />
See http://www.johnjanovy.com/bohem_cc.pdf for the recipe and a demonstration of how it's assembled once the dough has been allowed to rise (twice) in a warm place.JJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07202161189995028524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684903334938021230.post-61005746264910883782012-12-26T10:13:00.005-08:002012-12-26T10:13:55.022-08:00An excerpt from DINKLE: A SPIRITUAL BIOGRAPHY<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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But LPD’s mind
lay in the clouds. Storms come from the west. Thunderheads hide in the
mountains. They live in the canyons, deep in caves, until cold winds make them
angry. Then they grow, and take their revenge on the prairies. In their
towering, boiling, anguish, their reds and orange reflections, they are
emotions come into corporeal life. Their visage is anger; their lightning is
excitement; their rain—tears; their stillness, yellow light, soft singing of
tiny frogs, are all a kind of renewal. This rain is a persistent one. The wet
raccoon becomes surly, with bared fangs, quick to bite and shake its fur,
nervous as the tale goes on, almost as if he remembers only too well the dirt,
heavy bones, the ancient dried skin, stringy black and brittle hair, the broken
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He scratches and yowls. From the woods north of campus comes the scream of a
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(DINKLE: A SPIRITUAL BIOGRAPHY is a ghost story for our times; it's available on smashwords, kindle, and nook.) </div>
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B______ - <br />
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By way of perspective:<br />
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(1) KEITH COUNTY JOURNAL - rejected 22 times (by 22 different publishers, one
of whom wrote “Why do you waste your postage sending us things that don’t turn
us on?”) before being picked up by St. Martin's Press; eventually sold
thousands of copies, got my picture in TIME Magazine, and is still in print
after 34 years.<br />
<br />
(2) YELLOWLEGS - rejected several times (through my agent but not by my agent)
before Norman Mailer's editor said, in essence, "throw away the crap and
keep the story." After cutting the book in half, St. Martin's picked it up
on a two-book deal. Later, a film deal on YELLOWLEGS paid for one of our
children’s education at Berkeley, but ended in an out-of-court settlement,
deposited in a University of Nebraska Foundation account, that paid for my
research for several years.</div>
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(3) TEACHING IN EDEN: THE CEDAR POINT LESSONS – rejected,
through my agent (but not by my agent), by the University of Nebraska Press, in
fact by return mail. Eventually sold and published by RoutledgeFalmer, a Taylor
and Francis company. The University of Nebraska Press editor who rejected it,
without even reading the proposal or sample chapters, was the same editor who
left UNP and convinced the John Neihardt heirs to transfer the rights to all
Neihardt’s books to this editor’s new company. (The Neihardt property was a
major income producer for UNP).</div>
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(4) VERMILION SEA – rejected, through my agent, by the
University of Nebraska Press, without review. Eventually sold and published by
Houghton-Mifflin. VS was a heavily, and I do mean <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">heavily</i>, edited book, both by the H-M senior editor and the copy
editor, the former simply writing “rew!” (= “re-write”) on paragraph after
paragraph, and the copy editor letting me get by with the most embarrassing
mistake I’ve ever published (won’t tell you what it is.)</div>
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(5) TUSKERS – rejected 23 times, through my agent, by
various publishers. After the 23<sup>rd</sup> rejection, my agent said
“everybody in the agency loves this book but we simply cannot sell it. I’ll be
happy to write the contract if you can sell it.” I tried a couple of more
times, unsuccessfully, with Jena (the ESPN child) hassling me constantly to get
it into print. Eventually, when CreateSpace.com and the e-book business got up
and running, I did self-publish it.</div>
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(6) THE GINKGO – My agent rejected this one, declining to
handle it, calling it “an evocative book about ideas, exactly the kind of thing
the American book-buying public is getting increasingly impatient with.” (I
re-wrote the prologue and added that quote, plus some narrative to put it into
perspective.) It was subsequently rejected by about 40 different publishers. I
eventually self-published it and still consider it my finest piece of creative
work.</div>
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(7) ON BECOMING A BIOLOGIST – At the opposite end of the
author-publisher-agent spectrum is OBAB, which my agent negotiated and sold,
then told me I was going to write it. The editor at Harper and Row was
gentleman named Rick Kot, one of the most professional people I’ve ever worked
with. For two years I worked on both the manuscript and the outline; he edited
the latter, which eventually got up to about 50 pages, at least a dozen times,
until he finally took it to the H&R editorial board for approval. After
that, I re-wrote the whole book at least three times, all as a result of his
editing and commentary, after which he asked “are you now ready for me to edit
it?” I answered “yes,” and ended up doing as much creative work in the next six
months as I’d done in the previous 2-3 years. This book is still in print after
nearly 30 years.</div>
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(8) The intro biology textbook project – As a result of
KEITH COUNTY JOURNAL, an editor from one of the major textbook publishers
showed up in my office to talk about a BIOS 101 textbook. I signed the
contract. The manuscript eventually got to 1200 pages of typing and graphic
design (all by me), reviewed and re-written three times, before we came to a
mutual agreement that this project was not going to be successful. This all
took place in the early 1980s.</div>
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(9) BERNICE AND JOHN: FINALLY MEETING YOUR PARENTS WHO DIED
A LONG TIME AGO – a current book project, the so-called “Oklahoma book.” The
University of Oklahoma Press rejected this one by return mail with a smart-ass
crack something like “we get a manuscript once a week about Depression-era
parents who made good.” They missed the whole point. University of Nebraska
Press had it, or a version of it, three years ago, lost it, then contacted me
about a year ago to ask if I was still interested in having them review it. I sent
them a pdf (their preferred format) but have heard nothing from them in that
past year. Once this parasit textbook project is finished, I’ll self-publish
B&J.</div>
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(10) OUTWITTING COLLEGE PROFESSORS – I originally gave this
one away as a pdf file to my BIOS 101 class, then self-published with
www.createspace.com. That worked pretty well. Pearson picked up the book as a
second edition but didn’t really make it part of their success in college
package like I thought they would, so I got all the rights back from them and
have since done the third and fourth editions, also through createspace, as
well as kindle, nook, smashwords, etc. I’m not getting rich off it but it does
sell copies fairly regularly.</div>
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I won’t even mention the many other book projects, fiction
and otherwise, that have not come to fruition for several reasons. In my
opinion, if that daily hour of creative writing over in the Union, and the
writer-agent-publisher business that comes from it, have any value at all, it’s
been to put the scientific manuscript publication experience into perspective.</div>
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(1) Does the reference to authority authenticate your work
in a way that a good and conceptually strong idea doesn’t? (I think maybe so.
??Suggest a first slide with the idea/ref to authority and your test of
authority’s assertion?) (What does this observation tell us about the structure
of our science? Whatever the answer, it is unflattering, but ultimately perhaps
something we need to take into account.)</div>
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(2) Is parasitism too complex for the average biologist to
understand? For the average scientist? I think we should always be aware of
this possibility and account for it in our presentations.</div>
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(3) In this same vein, are simple problems expressed within
paradigmatic frameworks most easily understood by scientists?</div>JJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07202161189995028524noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684903334938021230.post-31502491739136413162012-06-04T16:22:00.002-07:002012-06-04T16:22:31.940-07:00<a href="http://bsweb.unl.edu/labs/janovy/gay01.pdf">A sampling of research on human sexual behavior</a><br />JJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07202161189995028524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684903334938021230.post-1271772500891207652012-05-09T18:08:00.000-07:002012-05-09T18:08:03.231-07:00Chapters on sex from COMES THE MILLENNIUM<br />
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Here are links to a couple of chapters from COMES THE MILLENNIUM: A LOOK AT
THE BURGEONING HYSTERIA, RELIGIOUS MANIA, AND ANTI-INTELLECTUALISM AS THE
MILLENNIUM APPROACHES. I do hold the copyright to this material and you can
distribute it as far and wide as you want, but not for profit. You may have to
copy the URL and paste it into your browser because I can’t figure out how to
make a direct link using the new blogspot window. – JJ</div>
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http://www.johnjanovy.com/homosexCTM.pdf</div>JJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07202161189995028524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684903334938021230.post-480641775450066432012-03-31T00:14:00.000-07:002012-03-31T00:14:22.917-07:00"Lido"--a chapter from BACK IN KEITH COUNTY (St. Martin's, 1981)In celebration of my "new" boat, a Schock Lido 14, same class that I had for 30+ years but gave away to a pirate, here is that chapter from BACK IN KEITH COUNTY about the real purpose of a sailboat. - JJJJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07202161189995028524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684903334938021230.post-38793735133339276262012-02-20T19:48:00.002-08:002012-02-20T19:48:01.138-08:00Why did God make tapeworms?Back by popular demand.JJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07202161189995028524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684903334938021230.post-46884136531803959662012-02-08T15:05:00.000-08:002012-02-08T15:05:55.105-08:00Student-generated 250-word essays on evolutionThe assignment was: Produce a deep, philosophical, creative, mysterious, ORIGINAL, 250-word essay on the subject “Evolution, and what it means to me and to humanity in general.” The results are attached. This assignment was given to a BIOS 101 class at UNL a few years ago; essays that are included are from students who gave permission for the material to be used to improve science education. - JJJJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07202161189995028524noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684903334938021230.post-36252065506525575252011-12-16T05:36:00.001-08:002011-12-16T05:36:56.308-08:00Owls in our back yardThis audio might not work, but if it does, it's 3-minutes or so of the owls in our back yard early this morning.JJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07202161189995028524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684903334938021230.post-15733888969460191762011-12-04T05:07:00.000-08:002011-12-04T05:07:20.162-08:00Chapter from the Oklahoma bookThis link is to a publication in the online journal ROUGAROU of a chapter from an Oklahoma book I've been working on for a number of years. The fall issue of ROUGAROU can be found at http://english.louisiana.edu/rougarou/currentIssue/index.htmlJJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07202161189995028524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684903334938021230.post-21718118304078740502011-11-30T17:46:00.001-08:002011-11-30T17:46:55.469-08:00Parasites reported from bluegill sunfish, 1973-1977.Answer to the trivia question.JJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07202161189995028524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684903334938021230.post-51639623133928926792011-11-22T22:29:00.000-08:002011-11-22T22:29:42.561-08:00The last Miller Lite at Barry'sBarry's Bar and Grill, a Lincoln, NE, fixture, is closing for good (assuming no buyer comes along and resurrects it with the classic name). The link is to a couple of commemorative pictures. Thanks to all you parasitologists who have made this particular booth a fountain of excellent ideas!JJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07202161189995028524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684903334938021230.post-68939952361863496112011-11-22T10:13:00.000-08:002011-11-22T10:13:18.469-08:00Exit comments re teaching in the introductory programThis item is a set of comments passed along to my administration regarding educational and human resource management issues in the introductory Biological Sciences program.JJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07202161189995028524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684903334938021230.post-37543709140801010322011-11-20T07:38:00.001-08:002011-11-20T07:38:20.490-08:00Handouts to accompany the Metaparasitology seminar, Nov. 17, 2011This link is to a pdf file of the handouts accompanying the November 17, 2011, Parasitology Seminar entitled "Metaparasitology."JJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07202161189995028524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684903334938021230.post-17554062819294762712011-11-17T13:04:00.001-08:002011-11-17T13:04:36.502-08:00Metaparasitology seminar (audio)This link is to the audio portion (*.WMA) of the Metaparasitology seminar given during UNL BIOS915 Parasitology Seminar on November 17, 2011.JJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07202161189995028524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684903334938021230.post-81197574344818448972011-11-17T13:01:00.000-08:002011-11-17T13:01:07.172-08:00Metaparasitology seminar (pdf)The pdf version of Metaparasitology, given during UNL Parasitology seminar on November 17, 2011.JJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07202161189995028524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684903334938021230.post-16904463764994287362011-09-30T11:40:00.000-07:002011-09-30T11:42:38.438-07:00Retrospective seminar - the pdf version of *.ppt showThis link is to the pdf version of the PowerPoint slides that accompany the audio.JJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07202161189995028524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684903334938021230.post-63534101891232273032011-09-16T13:06:00.003-07:002011-09-16T13:06:37.217-07:00Retrospective seminar - audioThis audio version is a substitute one, recorded after the actual seminar simply because I forgot to push the record button at the time the talk was originally delivered. But the narrative is pretty much the same.JJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07202161189995028524noreply@blogger.com0