This past week in invasive species blogging:
- The Technocrat has got crabs on the brain...King crabs in Norway, that is.
- ypsi~dixit posts about live Asian carp found at markets in Michigan. Now someone tell me what the heck ypsi~dixit means, or at least how you pronounce it!
- The donwatcher's got a problem with people releasing goldfish in a local pond.
- [shameless self promotion] Aetiology posts about how the Invasive Species Weblog made Science magazine. [/shameless self promotion]
4 comments:
Well, ypsi~dixit blogs from the lovely city of Ypsilanti, which is pronounced "ipsey", so I always thought it should be "ipsey-dicks-it".
Is that like "easy does it" or "oopsy-daisy"? :-)
"ipse dixit" is a legal/latin term, meaning, as I understand it, that something has been stated/asserted/claimed by a person of knowledge or authority, but has not been thoroughly proved.
Ypsi-dixit is a wealth of folk knowledge for the City of Ypsi(lanti) and surroundings. (Says a fellow Ypsilantian.)
Now that makes for a really cool blog name!
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