Mike Huben
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[[Image:Vanilla Stella.jpg|thumb|Vanilla Stella, one of my daylily introductions.]] | [[Image:Vanilla Stella.jpg|thumb|Vanilla Stella, one of my daylily introductions.]] | ||
[http://hubendaylilies.blogspot.com Daylilies are my major garden interest.] While I refuse to be so smitten that I myopically class other perennials as "companion plants", I've built a medium size assortment (400) for garden pleasure and hybridizing. I've always wanted to hybridize again, and daylilies are such a no-care and simple group to work with that I could not resist. I currently have about 3000 seedlings, 1000 from each of the past 3 years. I am a modestly successful hybridizer with about 20 introduced varieties that sell widely in North America and Europe. | [http://hubendaylilies.blogspot.com Daylilies are my major garden interest.] While I refuse to be so smitten that I myopically class other perennials as "companion plants", I've built a medium size assortment (400) for garden pleasure and hybridizing. I've always wanted to hybridize again, and daylilies are such a no-care and simple group to work with that I could not resist. I currently have about 3000 seedlings, 1000 from each of the past 3 years. I am a modestly successful hybridizer with about 20 introduced varieties that sell widely in North America and Europe. | ||
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== Philosophy and Countering Libertarianism == | == Philosophy and Countering Libertarianism == | ||
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[[Image:Flying spaghetti monster manifests..jpg|thumb|Vortices from jet engines resembling the Flying Sphagetti Monster.]] | [[Image:Flying spaghetti monster manifests..jpg|thumb|Vortices from jet engines resembling the Flying Sphagetti Monster.]] | ||
I am a zealous, evangelistic, crusading [http://www.infidels.org/ agnostic and skeptic], in religion, politics, pseudoscience, and quack medical practice. I've been posting for about 35 years (first on the old PLATO system and later on USENET) to political and religious newsgroups. Here's an [http://world.std.com/~mhuben/humbio autobiographical posting] from an old secular humanist mailing list. I'm a huge fan of Richard Dawkins and PZ Meyers. | I am a zealous, evangelistic, crusading [http://www.infidels.org/ agnostic and skeptic], in religion, politics, pseudoscience, and quack medical practice. I've been posting for about 35 years (first on the old PLATO system and later on USENET) to political and religious newsgroups. Here's an [http://world.std.com/~mhuben/humbio autobiographical posting] from an old secular humanist mailing list. I'm a huge fan of Richard Dawkins and PZ Meyers. | ||
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| + | == Entomology and Evaniidae == | ||
| + | [[Image:BMurrayorum1a.jpg|thumb|Brachygaster murrayorum [Hymenoptera: Evaniidae]]] | ||
| + | [[Image:MouseMites.jpg|thumb|Mouse skin mites.]] | ||
| + | [[Image:HummingbirdMite.jpg|thumb|Hummingbrid feather mite.]] | ||
| + | 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]. | ||
