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David Waltner‐Toews

David Waltner-Toews is a Canadian epidemiologist, essayist, poet, fiction writer, veterinarian, and a specialist in the epidemiology of food and… more

David Waltner‐Toews
H-index: 46
Public Health 25%
Agriculture 17%
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Please clarify what deterioration means. Be explicit.
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soul mates, comrades in arms, schemers and humanizers and tricksters in every good way.
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Jane Goodall 1934-2025. Damn. I thought she was forever.
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Jesus, him arguing is a sure sign he was Jewish.
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If God is in all and is all, as one version of evolutionary genetics implies, then you are, in part, God. So if you change your behaviour, you alter the complex dynamics of Being, and you change God.
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Megan Campisi’s novel Sin Eater is a good introduction
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Heavy Metal Portlandia Gonzo. First Season now filming.
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@floralashes.bsky.social a friend asked me today if there are any non-male references to God in the Torah or related literature. I figured you might know.
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In '71 a girl at a party, hearing Kathy Waltner & me were getting married, sneered no guy would ever change his name. I said, what’s the big deall? Kathy, from a family of 4 girls, actually wanted to keep some part of her family-of-origin name - Waltner. So we became Waltner-Toews. 54 yrs later...
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Just seems weird to me that Jimmy Kimmel might be seen as the new Lenny Bruce. Just blows my already weird brain.
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Does it seem really weird to anyone that Jimmy Kimmel might be the new Lenny Bruce?
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Can’t be some approximation of all three? Even standing next to a thunderous waterfall might evoke a « light « version of such a feeling.
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I read “frass” which is bugshit. I think fass is frass misspelled.
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What’s the old saying about pants on fire? Seems to be a common problem with ICE agents.
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Very important work. May also be relevant to how we “forage” now in sub urban societies.
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And now I wonder, why bother writing? So it was prescient. So…what? What is the point of it all?
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I think the story was Nightfall. I read it in the 1960s. I thought it was a creepy fantasy.
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I think Isaac Asimov wrote this story in about 1941.

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