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Posts by David Waltner-Toews

Meanwhile, away from the headlines, from the journal Nature Africa “She returned home to find a baboon in her kitchen with her dog. The two were sitting calmly, the baboon feeding fruit to her pet.”

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Who belongs in the city? Baboons, and the boundaries of urban life in Cape Town Urban sustainability researcher Johan Enqvist uses human-baboon interactions in Cape Town to explore broader tensions between people and nature.

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Some say they’re proud to be Canadians. I’m not proud, just happy, and with that happiness comes responsibility. I just need to figure out what that responsibility is.

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You don’t have to be friends to have sex. Some people do it professionally.

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I’m Canadian. Explain to me what’s fun about it.

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And led by a Canadian no less????

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You READ it? Did he write it the same way the President wrote The Art of the Deal? Of course now he could have just used a Musk AI thing using a few key words...

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I high school, never having gotten to first base, I gave up the sport. Now it’s curling, but I am unable to find any sex analogies in sweeping and hitting rocks or blanking ends.

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We are all Spectators. What do we do? Small Boat by Vincent Delacroix, translated by Helen Stevenson. (Small Axes, HopeRoad Publishing, 2025, 120 pp) In November, 2021, a dingy overloaded with refugees left France at night and sank, so…

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There are graded moral boundaries? I thought this was a pass-fail course.

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My Favourite Music: Rachmaninoff’s Russian Easter played by Vronsky & Babin. Mine is an old crackly LP. Perfect.

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Honeybees and Distant Thunder Honeybees and Distant Thunder by Riku Onda (Penguin Random House, 2023. Translated by Philip Gabriel, who has apparently also translated a lot of Huruki Murakami) What a wonder-filled book that cap…

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But does it vibrate?

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Taking Stock: Unnatural flu Unnatural history of bird flu | The hidden billions for African agriculture | Livestock suffering under climate change | Hallucinating references | Could humble hornworts turbocharge crop yields?

An excellent summary.

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Makes me want to rent my garments.

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Surgery without Borders. They do it by telephone.

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Sisyphus and Red Diaper Babies Two books completed. No agents or publishers in sight. 1) Fiction: The Incompleat Communist. The quest of a Red Diaper Baby’s Baby to Find Himself 2) Nonfiction: Sisyphus Changes the uni…

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Japanese Review of On Pandemics (短評)『⼈類と感染症、共存の世紀』デイビッド・ウォルトナー=テーブズ著■『⼈類と感染症、共存の世紀』デイビッド・ウォルトナー=テーブズ著世界で猛威をふるう新型コロナウイルスは、コウモリからセンザンコウを介して⼈間に感染したと考えられている。同じように⼈と動物の間を⾏き来するウイルスや細菌によってもたらされる「⼈獣共通感染症」がいかに多いことか、本書を⾒れば⼀⽬瞭然だ。⾝近なペットも安⼼でき…

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There are no lone wolves. They hunt in packs.

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Read Under the Eye of the Big Bird. An excellent novel on human AI interactions set hundreds of years into the future.

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Could one create a whole new language from that? Or a new translation of the Bible?

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Flags & Faith Flags and Places of Worship I agree with much of what I am reading in the Substack The Next Move about the vicious horrors of antisemitism and how deeply it is rooted in European and North American…

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Well, also cry.

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A carrot-nosed snow person with their arms in the air.

A carrot-nosed snow person with their arms in the air.

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TET: Thành Chuong Happy TET to all my Vietnamese friends & colleagues. This is one of my favourite paintings, which hangs in a place of honour in my house. Children’s Play, 2007, 100 cm by 120 cm, Lacquer Painti…

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As a Canadian, I am celebrating Family Day, Louis Riel Day the only non-imperialist among our parents of Confederation), TET & Chinese New Year. Also this week I co-celebrate Ramadan & Lent (does one celebrate ashes and giving things up?). I raise a glass of clean water to you all.

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It should all be Osage, or Navajo, or Cherokee. None of this English-Spanish-French babbling

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It is a remarkable work of art (and could stand alone, even without the book).

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Nipah Virus January 2026 Jan 28, 2026: Nipah Virus In India: What Is Actually Going On? Timeline Explained India has confirmed two Nipah virus cases in West Bengal since December, with health authorities containing the sit…

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My Australian granddaughter says a no that sounds "something like" noiuer. A sounds I cannot immitate.

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