While I was writing this article on jellyfish population increase in Turkey, a professor I’d asked to interview sent me the following, very cute email:
“Dear Davenport,
I have no experience with the jellies in the Mediterranean Sea. Yes, I observed the same results when I participated to the cruises in the Mediterranean Sea. Please contact …”
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It’s a warm summer night and this Friday, I’m home early from work; it’s a little after midnight. It’s strange, just sitting here in my apartment in the relative quiet of a suburban neighborhood late-ish on a Friday night, when I hear people walking by speaking in Turkish, it still startles me somewhat. It reminds [...]
I spend way too much time planning and not enough time implementing well-considered plans. It’s a serious problem, considering that the future is not guaranteed, but more on that later – for now I just say insha’Allah. So, last year Ramadan in Turkey was kinda lame, especially given my work schedule and infamiliarity with what the [...]
I haven’t updated in a while, for reasons alternating between being too lost/distracted in my own thoughts and simply being swamped with Things To Do (arbitrarily capitalizing here because I remove other people’s annoying arbitrary capitalizations in articles all day long at work and feel that I have the right to do it sometimes since everyone [...]
