Danielb Botkin News Today

Written by Kathleen Marquardt, an associate of Tom DeWeese People are excited thinking about being able to live in alternative universes. Unbeknownst to them, they already do – and have been for most of their lives. Especially those born after the era when we wore our Texas Instrument calculators on our belts (our slide rules were put on the shelf to be oddities to show our children how we calculated in school) and built computers we bought in parts.

Tom Comitta’s new novel attempts to narratively embody an ecosystem. But is it really possible to render a landscape as its own, round character?

Dr. Daniel B. Botkin, Professor Emeritus of Biology for UC Santa Barbara, previous Faculty for Yale University’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies; Former Adjunct Professor at the...