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Mike Huben - Huben's Wiki

Mike Huben

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I thought a wiki would be the simplest way to organize much of my online activity: eventually, wikis will supplant my other sites.  This page is organized roughly by my interests, with the things that might be relevant to my students first.
 
I thought a wiki would be the simplest way to organize much of my online activity: eventually, wikis will supplant my other sites.  This page is organized roughly by my interests, with the things that might be relevant to my students first.
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== Get to know me and my thinking ==
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[[File:MikeInGreenhouse.jpg|thumb|In the greenhouse at IKIAM University]]
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A brief sampler from below and elsewhere:
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* [http://huben.us/public/MRH_CV2016.pdf My academic CV].
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* [https://www.replyall.me/peltacast/scourge-of-the-libertarians-interview-with-mike-huben/ Scourge of the Libertarians: Interview with Mike Huben].  My views on libertarianism.
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* What I think about [[Trump|Donald Trump]].
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* Here's my [http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2012/02/23/why-i-am-an-atheist-mike-huben/ Why I Am An Atheist] posting at Pharyngula.
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* [http://ecuadormetamorphosis.blogspot.com Metamorphosis], my blog about my rebirth as an Ecuadorean entomologist.
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* My daylily website, on this wiki: [[Diploids Resurgent]].
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* [http://critiques.us/index.php?title=A_Positive_Model_Of_Rights A Positive Model Of Rights]: how I think rights really work.
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* [http://critiques.us Critiques Of Libertarianism], my giant list of 2000+  links and writings that rebut libertarian claims.
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* [[Linear Programming]]: an innovative method of teaching a badly taught concept.
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* An idea for a [[Truth course]].
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* [https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/20086520/Entomology/Evaniidae.pdf Annotated Key to the Ensign Wasp genera.]  My primary scientific publication.
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* [[Things I love and admire about Ecuador.]]
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== Currently ==
 
== Currently ==
 
[[Image:Haemactis sanguinalis, female (Blood-Red Skipper).jpg|thumb|Haemactis sanguinalis, female (Blood-Red Skipper)]]
 
[[Image:Haemactis sanguinalis, female (Blood-Red Skipper).jpg|thumb|Haemactis sanguinalis, female (Blood-Red Skipper)]]
Right now, I'm in transition from teaching in the US to becoming an entomologist in Ecuador.  You can read about it in my new blog [http://ecuadormetamorphosis.blogspot.com Metamorphosis].  I am engaged to [http://www.neotropicos.net/ Alina Freire Fierro].
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Right now, I'm in transition from teaching in the US to becoming an entomologist in Ecuador.  You can read about it in my new blog [http://ecuadormetamorphosis.blogspot.com Metamorphosis].  I am engaged to [http://www.neotropicos.net/ Alina Freire Fierro], who is now a research professor at [http://www.ikiam.edu.ec/index.php/en/ IKIAM University] in Tena.
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I'm doing some [http://extension.referata.com/wiki/Página_principal evaluations for disease resistance in tomatoes], with 38 varieties growing so far at IKIAM.  I have seed for another 80 varieties, seed for 50 varieties of peppers, and much more seed besides.
  
 
Alina and I both have sizable libraries.  I love the folding bookshelves that I brought from the US, but we don't have nearly enough.  So we are having [[new custom folding bookshelves]] built by a local carpenter.
 
Alina and I both have sizable libraries.  I love the folding bookshelves that I brought from the US, but we don't have nearly enough.  So we are having [[new custom folding bookshelves]] built by a local carpenter.
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== Gardening, Botany and Agriculture ==
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[[Image:Mucuna klitgaardiae.jpg|thumb|Mucuna klitgaardiae with my favorite botanist, Alina.]]
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[[Image:Garden.jpg|thumb|A corner of my US garden in peak season.]]
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My mom has a picture of me staring intently at Petunias on Jones Beach at age 2, so I guess I've been a plant guy for 60 years or so.  I grew my first seedlings in first grade, and have not stopped since then.  I worked in the botanical greenhouse of the Bailey Hortorium at Cornell University for a few years, caring for their live botanical collection of several thousand species in the greenhouse and their outdoor garden.  I wanted to be a farmer for a while, until I realized that I had dreadful allergies.  [http://world.std.com/~mhuben/garden.html My home garden near Boston had a bit over 300 varieties of perennials and shrubs], not counting daylilies (see below.)
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Currently, I am working on a [http://extension.referata.com/wiki/Página_principal Tomato Project] with some students at IKIAM University, in Tena, Ecuador.  The goal is to find the most disease resistant varieties (and perhaps breed with them) to find tomatoes that do not need greenhouse protection from rain-spread diseases.
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Now I am in Ecuador: here's my list of [[Ecuador Botanical and Gardening Resources]].
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[[Image:MouseMites.jpg|thumb|Mouse skin mites using Jamin-Lebedeff interference microscopy.]]
 
[[Image:MouseMites.jpg|thumb|Mouse skin mites using Jamin-Lebedeff interference microscopy.]]
 
One of my true loves has always been [[Entomology]]. I used to specialize in [[Acarology]] (the study of mites), and built a collection of a thousand slide-mounted specimens (and who knows how many more in alcohol that I've never mounted.) I've got a substantial number of colorful mite photographs that I've always wanted to publish, photographed by my friends in the New York Microscopical Society and me. After my last sabbatical collecting insects in Ecuador (1988), I finally settled on my current specialization, the [[Evaniidae]] (a family of wasps that parasitize cockroach egg cases.) I study these at the [http://www.mcz.harvard.edu/ Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology] on an unofficial basis. I'm also a member of the [http://entclub.org/ Cambridge Entomological Club].
 
One of my true loves has always been [[Entomology]]. I used to specialize in [[Acarology]] (the study of mites), and built a collection of a thousand slide-mounted specimens (and who knows how many more in alcohol that I've never mounted.) I've got a substantial number of colorful mite photographs that I've always wanted to publish, photographed by my friends in the New York Microscopical Society and me. After my last sabbatical collecting insects in Ecuador (1988), I finally settled on my current specialization, the [[Evaniidae]] (a family of wasps that parasitize cockroach egg cases.) I study these at the [http://www.mcz.harvard.edu/ Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology] on an unofficial basis. I'm also a member of the [http://entclub.org/ Cambridge Entomological Club].
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* [http://huben.us/public/MRH_CV2016.pdf My academic CV].
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* [https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michael_Huben My Researchgate page.]
  
 
One of the fun aspects of being a wide-ranging collector is that [[Species|my collections are used for describing species.]]
 
One of the fun aspects of being a wide-ranging collector is that [[Species|my collections are used for describing species.]]
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== Teaching ==
 
== Teaching ==
[[Image:PokerHands.jpg|thumb|[http://critiquesoflibertarianism.blogspot.com/2009/01/venn-diagram-of-poker-hands-solution.html My Venn diagram of 5-card poker hands.] ]]
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[[Image:PokerHands.jpg|thumb|[http://critiquesoflibertarianism.blogspot.com/2009/01/venn-diagram-of-poker-hands-solution.html My Euler (not Venn) diagram of 5-card poker hands.] ]]
 
From 2010 until 2014, I was a math + CS teacher at [[Boston Latin School]].  I've taught[[Teacher|:]]  
 
From 2010 until 2014, I was a math + CS teacher at [[Boston Latin School]].  I've taught[[Teacher|:]]  
 
* [[AP Computer Science]]
 
* [[AP Computer Science]]
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[[Why Is Math Hard?]]
 
[[Why Is Math Hard?]]
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[[Linear Programming]]: an innovative method of teaching a badly taught concept.
  
 
Here's my [[Resume]].
 
Here's my [[Resume]].
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* [http://world.std.com/~mhuben/tastes.html Here is a short list of my favorite books, films, etc.]
 
* [http://world.std.com/~mhuben/tastes.html Here is a short list of my favorite books, films, etc.]
 
* A recent copy of my [https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/20086520/Bookmarks.html Bookmarks].
 
* A recent copy of my [https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/20086520/Bookmarks.html Bookmarks].
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== Gardening ==
 
[[Image:Garden.jpg|thumb|A corner of my garden in peak season.]]
 
I've always had a strong interest in botany and gardening. I used to work for Cornell's Bailey Hortorium, caring for their live botanical collection of several thousand species in the greenhouse and their outdoor garden. [http://world.std.com/~mhuben/garden.html My home garden has a bit over 300 varieties of perennials and shrubs.]
 
 
Now I am in Ecuador: here's my list of [[Ecuador Gardening Resources]].
 
 
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** a host of related materials I've been able to find.  
 
** a host of related materials I've been able to find.  
 
**  [http://world.std.com/~mhuben/sigs.html Signature quotes from my collection] related to libertarianism.
 
**  [http://world.std.com/~mhuben/sigs.html Signature quotes from my collection] related to libertarianism.
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*[https://press.princeton.edu/titles/13343.html Economics in Two Lessons: Why Markets Work So Well, and Why They Can Fail So Badly] by John Quiggin.  An extraordinary rebuttal to the bad economics of libertarians and neoliberals. I assisted John Quiggin by commenting on almost all the chapters, suggesting changes for clarity, completeness, anticipating responses, etc.  [https://johnquiggin.com/2018/08/30/economics-in-two-lessons-acknowledgements/ Earned myself a very nice credit!]
  
 
* [[Mike's Skepticism]]<br>I was briefly a contributing editor writing a monthly column for [http://www.suite101.com/ Suite101]. That ended when I did not meet deadlines. The originals were at: [http://www.suite101.com/topics/page.cfm/645 Skepticism].
 
* [[Mike's Skepticism]]<br>I was briefly a contributing editor writing a monthly column for [http://www.suite101.com/ Suite101]. That ended when I did not meet deadlines. The originals were at: [http://www.suite101.com/topics/page.cfm/645 Skepticism].

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