Illness to bad credit to unemployment

by Andres Rueda

A Master’s Class in Hiring a Person With Credit Wrecked By Bad Health and Being Laid Off
[Via KnowHR Blog]

I saw this question/plea on Ask Reddit this morning. For those of you in HR making hiring decisions, here’s your master’s class in the impact that credit check policies have on hiring decisions. Read the article and the comments. Here’s the setup.

I was out of work to fight an illness and can’t get a job now because my credit is bad. I have 13 years of IT experience -will work my a** off for you.

Since early 2008 I have been out of work. I had to bow out and go full time to Rochester, MN for medical care. I stayed current with my skills and I am better than ever before. My last two job offers have been rescinded due to bad credit. I’ve had hiring managers desperately want me on their team and go to bat for me but with no luck. I didn’t run up credit cards on a shopping spree, I fell ill and was financially destroyed. I lost my cars, home -the works in order to get the care I needed in order to stay alive. I have designed data centers, managed global IT teams, designed, implemented and managed Global WANS, network security, route\switch, worked for dot coms that you’ve heard of and Fortune 50 Companies. Are there any hiring managers that want a top-flight employee with a proven track record that can deliver you and your team results? I am open to constructive ideas. Thank you Reddit!

Edit: I had ‘good corporate’ Health Insurance. The Insurance was a paperwork trap and they basically said everything was ‘experimental’ or ‘not covered’ as my condition was extremely rare so basically Insurance was like a 10% off coupon and my ticket to get let in. I was wiped out financially in 6 weeks.

What would you do? WWYD?

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So, not only can medical expenses drive someone into bankruptcy so rapidly, the resulting low credit ratings could keep them from being hired. How many of us are a simple illness away from such a scenario?

[Listening to: Evil Woman from the album "Strange Magic: The Best Of Electric Light Orchestra" by Electric Light Orchestra (Elo)]

The battle of the century

by Kyle May

THE EVOLUTION OF CIVILIZATIONS
[Via Global Guerrillas]

Took a bit of a risk with this, but it was fun to write. Hope it does provide some useful frameworks for thinking about our present situation.______________

Last weekend, upon the recommendation of a very smart friend, I read Carroll Quigley’s (a legendary professor at Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service) 1961 book, “The Evolution of Civilizations.” It is a hidden gem of a history book, chock full of useful models he derives through the application of the scientific method and aggressive analysis/synthesis (which makes it very unusual). Happily, I found this prescient para near the end of the book:

The hope of the future does not rest, as commonly believed, in winning the people of the “buffer fringe” to one superpower or the other, but rather in the invention of new weapons and tactics that will be so cheap to obtain and so easy to use that they will increase the effectiveness of guerrilla warfare so greatly that the employment of our present weapons of mass destruction will become futile, and on this basis there can be a revival of democracy and of political decentralization in all three parts of our present world. This possible development in political and military matters, would, of course, require the development of decentralized economic techniques such as would arise if sunlight became the chief energy source for production and the advancement of science made it possible to manufacture any desired substance by molecular rearrangement….

All I can say is WOW. This was written at the height of the cold war, nearly 50 years ago, and he could still envision the end game of Western Civilization.*

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An excellent discussion of a very interesting book that I now want to read. Luckily the pdf of the book is available. His last point brought up is critically important.

Quigley suggests that there are three potential outcomes from an institution that has gone bad.

   1. You can attempt to radically reform it. The institution either accepts this reform and improves – or – the institution

   2. fights the reform attempt. The recent global crisis and it’s pitiful aftermath is a good indicator that financial capitalism will fight reform tooth and nail, and they will win.

   3. The only other option is to build something new that routes around the institution (in this case global financial capitalism). However, that’s going to be very difficult given that it is now runs a Universal Empire and the power it can bring to bear to protect its interests is nearly limitless.

Finding ways around the damage created by this institution, which has the power to bring down the most powerful country in the world while funding the production of greenhouse gases that can harm us all, will be the great struggle of this generation.
They now have the power to spend as much money in political campaigns as they want, across international borders. The creation of resilient communities will provide a substantial challenge to these institutions.
It will be a long fight.

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[Listening to: You Don't Even Know Me from the album "Al Stewart: Greatest Hits" by Al Stewart]

Getting it wrong

by dhruvaraj
New dimensions in earth science uncovered by NZ blogger:
[Via Hot Topic]

Exciting new concepts in earth systems science are emerging from the fertile intellect of one of Hot Topic’s most diligent readers, Ian Wishart. Either that, or he’s demonstrated (again) that he doesn’t understand what he’s writing about. In this astonishing post, published yesterday, he considers something he calls the “feedback warming effect”, and attempts to use a new paper on carbon cycle feedbacks to support Monckton’s nonsense on climate sensitivity.

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It is so interesting watching commentators simply get things wrong. They often try so hard to make the facts fit their predetermined box that they completely lose track of just what is being discussed.

A paper comes out that provides some new numbers regarding how much CO2 is released from the planet (i.e. from the oceans, tundra, etc.) as the global temperatures rise. Previously there was a wide range of possible values. They simply narrowed the range of possible values, making the likely value lower than some had thought. But they also showed that the chances of tis positive feedback actually being negative is pretty small. There will be no “pleasant surprises in the form of more efficient uptake of carbon by oceans and land… that would limit the amplitude of future climate change.”

This is not the same thing as saying that the temperatures of the world will go up a certain amount if CO2 doubles; its sensitivity to CO2. The paper reflects natural processes that release CO2 with temperature rises. They are part of the normal carbon cycle.

The second can reflect the addition of CO2 from anthropogenic sectors, which are not part of the natural carbon cycle. The former discusses the CO2 release that is dependent on temperature. sensitivity describes how temperature is dependent on CO2 content.

As an author of the paper stated:

He said that if the results his paper were widely accepted, the overall effect on climate projections would be neutral.

“It might lead to a downward mean revision of those (climate) models which already include the carbon cycle, but an upward revision in those which do not include the carbon cycle.

“That’ll probably even itself out to signify no real change in the temperature projections overall,” he said.

This is because many of the models that have been included in reports do not use an added carbon-cycle feedback. So, if they now include this feedback, which has been shown to be positive, then those models will now show increased rates of temperature rise, an upward revision.

And one big thing to worry about – their work was really based on determining small CO2 amounts from small temperature changes. What happens if those results are not directly comparable to a world where there are large temperature changes? Are there new processes, such a release of large amounts of methane from the tundra or the oceans, that would appear that were not present in the data examined in this paper?

For me, the worry is that we enter a new regime, one that is not linearly comparable to extrapolating from previous trends but one where there is a step function UP to a new curve altogether. One where massive amounts of methane are released, vastly enhancing the positive feedback of CO2.

Technorati Tags: Environment, Science, Sustainability

His piece of s*%t writing reminds me of Emily Litella

Is Ed Wallace’s Business Week column a “Crock of S*%t”?:
[Via Climate Progress]

The status quo media has a new anti-science columnist, Ed Wallace. He had a column yesterday in Business Week, “Is Global Warming a ‘Crock of S*%t?’ “ Here is a typical pearl of disinformation:

“Then, on the last day of 2009, Wolfgang Knorr of the Earth Sciences Dept. at the University of Bristol released new research showing the possibility that carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has not risen in the past 160 years. Maybe he’s wrong, but at least he published his views for peer review in the Geophysical Research Letters.”

Not even close. As anyone with access to Google knows, that is not what Knorr said at all (see “Yes, the atmospheric CO2 fraction has risen at a dangerously fast rate in the past 160 years, reaching levels not seen in millions of years“). See also the single most famous chart of observational data in the entire climate arena (above), the Keeling Curve of “Atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2).”

Knorr’s study merely suggested the fraction of human-emitted CO2 that stays in the atmosphere may have stayed flat for 160 years. It had a bad headline and confused many folks for a few days, but it was pretty quickly straightened out for anyone paying attention.

To write this piece and not even bother using Google for 30 seconds to fact-check it is a sign of utter disdain for the truth.

That Business Week doesn’t bother to fact check their columns puts them dangerously close to the non-existent standards of the Washington Post op-ed page, which has become a laughingstock (see “Will the Washington Post ever fact check a George Will column? and WashPost goes tabloid, publishes second falsehood-filled op-ed by Sarah Palin in five months).

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Denialists, and those who write for them, keep repeating the same misleading fabrications and outright lies long after they have politely been told the facts. The paper that is quoted showed that the percentage of CO2 in the atmosphere that human processes has caused has not increased. NOT that CO2 has not increased.

It is obvious to anyone who has half a brain that CO2 in the atmosphere has increased. The question was what percentage of that increase was due to humans and if that percentage changed over time. The paper indicated that the percentage of the increase due to humans had not changed.

NOT that there had been no increase to begin with. Yet these guys keep writing the same crap. They are not interested in spending any time at all to get their facts correct. Because correct facts are not necessary at all for their arguments.

That is the easiest way to tell when someone is writing for denialists. They are like some bizarro Emily Litella, who when informed that the word is “violence” not “violins”, react by starting over again rather than saying “Nevermind.”.

Think this exchange on constant repeat:

Over and over again they start back jabbering about violins, no matter how often they are corrected. It becomes obvious that they are not speaking to the average person out there but to all the other Emily Litellas that ‘hear’ the world incorrectly just like them.

‘And they won’t drink milk.’ Facts be damned.

Technorati Tags: Environment, Science, Sustainability

Poor little Spirit

xkcd has the Spirit:
[Via Bad Astronomy]

Today’s xkcd comic takes a somewhat different stance on the plight of Spirit than I did.

Still, it’s funny how we anthropomorphize objects, especially when they are vaguely human or animal looking. Especially if they’re cute. And Spirit is very cute.

Who’s a good rover? Hmmm? You are! You’re a good rover!

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Somehow, this makes me feel a little sad. It reminds me of some science fiction story i read. can’t place it but that same sort of melancholy loneliness of an mechanical object, going about its job and waiting for mankind that will never return.

I wonder how Voyager feels? It still talks with us. Has it given up on ever seeing us again? (Well, we know how one person thought that reunion would go.)

I think one of the things we should do when we get to Mars is find Sprit and return it to a revered place in the Air and Space museum. Such service should be recognized.

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So they will not be forgotten

by Jess & Peter
Naming the dead:
[Via BBC News | Science/Nature | World Edition]

When the first chipped and battle-scarred bones were excavated from a muddy field in northern France last May, the story of the forgotten battle of Fromelles began to emerge.

The remains of 250 British and Australian soldiers had lain undiscovered for 93 years since falling on the Western Front.

Boots, purses, toothbrushes and other personal artefacts lay amongst the twisted skeletons at Pheasant Wood, offering partial clues about the men’s identities.

Richard Parker (inset) and Len Twamley, taken before his deployment
My grandmother died without knowing where Len was buried – this would bring proper closure to a family tragedy
Richard Parker, pictured inset

But it is the unique genetic codes within these remains that offer the best chance of putting names to each unknown soldier.

So far, more than 800 UK families who think they may have lost a relative at Fromelles have given DNA samples, but many will be disappointed.
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Understanding the fates of these men who were lost to history is an amazing mixture of reverence, audacity and science. The unknown mass grave was really discovered because of the sheer relentlessness of an Australian schoolteacher. He spent 6 years working on this project – identifying the last resting spot where these soldiers were buried by the Germans.

He succeeded and convinced a limited excavation be done that discovered the bodies.

After the first soldier is reburied, all except one will be reinterred with full military honours during ceremonies to be held throughout February.

The final body will be reinterred on July 19, when a major commemorative event will be held at the cemetery’s official opening to mark the 94th anniversary of the Battle of Fromelles.

A team of 28 Australian and British army soldiers will take part in each of the reburials, which will feature an Australian digger playing the Last Post on a cornet originally used by the 31st Battalion on the Western Front and possibly at Fromelles.

The cornet was purchased from a collection on eBay.

Identifying the bodies will be a very daunting task. They are buried in an area that is not conducive for preserving DNA well. They do not have the ability to use a well represented set of DNA markers and there are so many graves to process.

They hope to identify maybe 100 bodies, out of 250, but think it is more likely to be much less than that. But the drive of the families involved is pretty amazing.

But a match can be made through cousins, nephews or nieces on the family line. So if a family is missing a paternal link, they can trace the soldier’s father, grandfather or brother, then locate their living relatives.

Dr Jones says one family went back seven generations on the maternal side then came forward five to find a suitable relative.

The Internet makes genealogy so much easier that it now becomes possible to go back 7 generations and then forward 5.

One reason this battle may hold such a connection to families, particularly Australian one, is that in 11 hours, over 5500 Australian soldiers were either dead, wounded or prisoners. It was one of the worst 24 hour periods in Australia’s military history.

I’m glad that the efforts of one Australian has resulted in the possible identification and proper burial of these men.

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I feel so small

The interactive scale of the Universe

[Via Bad Astronomy]

A while back I posted a link to a nifty interactive graphic that let’s you zoom down from human scales to that of the atom. In that post, I said I wish someone would make one that goes out to the size of the Universe, too.

My wish has been answered. NewGrounds is a Flash animation portal, and a user by the handle of Fotoshop has created a wondrous and lovely interactive tool to show you the relative sizes of things in the Universe, from the largest galaxies down to the quantum foam. I don’t know what else to say about it except This. Freaking. Rocks.

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When I was in High School, we has little models of the solar system to help us visualize what it looked like. Or we would see beat up old films. like this one made by Frank Capra. (These were wonderful movies, with Hemo the Magnificent being the one that had the greatest impact on me.)

Now we can directly interact with a representation that actually intuitively gives us a feel for the sizes of things. Maybe not an exact representation but it sure is a great learning tool for us visual learners.

Oh, and while I was searching those old Capra educational movies , I noticed they are out on DVD – Hemo is paired with The Unchained Goddess which gave us this educational view of global warming 50 years before Gore. I guess those climate science conspirators were active 50 years ago.

We have nice visual devices to show us the size of things but where are the scientific educators like Dr. Frank Baxter, who was not a scientist at all, but was used to effectively to make so many of us want to be scientists.

We can thank Jobs for beta testing the capacity of the Internet

by mattbuchanan

Apple’s iPad Event Broke the Internets – Yahoo! News
[Via PCWorld]

We knew today’s Apple tablet announcement was a big deal. We didn’t know, however, that it was big enough to bring the Internet to a near-standstill.

While Steve Jobs was discussing the highly anticipated iPad, IT workers across the country were discussing how to get their servers back up and running. And this time, it wasn’t just Twitter taking the nosedive.

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I saw this firsthand. So many sites just went down hard during the event. Engadget and Gizmodo held up the best but even those required some futzing (usually forcing a reload of the page). Luckily both recovered and, at least for me, neither was down at the same time.

Poor Cover It Live, which is usually quite a fun way to see a live blog, was hammered for every site that tried to use it. BUt, it will be because of events like today that these groups get a better handle on actually providing such peak coverage of breaking events. Perhaps for something with real importance and not just an Apple announcement.

Google and NOAA sitting in a tree

Picture This: NOAA, Google Join Forces to Visualize Scientific Data:
[Via NOAA News Releases]

NOAA’s Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research and Google have signed a cooperative research and development agreement outlining how they will work together to create state-of-the-art visualizations of scientific data to illustrate how our planet works.

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This could be really useful and fun, much like what Google Earth has accomplished. Google has all sorts of resources and expertise with presentation of data. It can do some things that NOAA can just not afford to do.

This is a collaboration to keep an eye on.

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Weird West coast weather

The January Record:
[Via Cliff Mass Weather Blog]

Will this month be the warmest January on record at Seattle Tacoma Airport? It is going to be a nail-biter but it appears we will make it.

A recap. The warmest January month until now was January 2006, when the average monthly temperature was 46.55 F. Where are we right now? Averaging all the days this month, including today, gives 47.1. Still above.

We have five days left.

Using the current NWS forecasts, the mean temperature of those days will be 45.9F.
Properly averaging this with the rest of the month gives a monthly-mean temperature of 46.9F. We make it with .35F to spare! Ok, I would like more of a margin, but it looks like the record will fall.

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More about just how warm it has been in Seattle. Now, since this is just local, and just hits year, it is weather not climate. But it sure is weird. particularly when you see something else he posts:

But what will really go down in the record books is the broad area of very, very low pressure over the western U.S. this month. Here is an amazing figure provided to me by Nate Mantua of the UW Climate Impact Group. It shows the pressure anomaly, the difference between the actual and climatological pressures, for January 15 through 23. An extraordinary anomaly reaching 21 mb (this is a large number for such things) over a huge area. I have never seen anything like it and probably won’t see again for decades. There is reason that half the western U.S. set their ALL TIME low pressure records…records than have stood for 50-100+ years at these locations.

That huge low has just been producing all sorts of weird weather and it is an incredible low, much deeper than ever seen before. Now, I wish I was better informed at this but I would have thought a low like this would have drawn in all sorts of cloudy, rainy weather. The Southwest got hit with just those sorts of weather conditions but not the Pacific NW. We have actually had mostly dry, warm, even sunny days this month. Why?

Technorati Tags: Environment, Science

The iPad will rock

Lots of fun watching Apple bring down the Internet. So many sites that tried to LiveBlog the event just went down hard. Engadget and Gizmodo held up the best.

And it is always fun reading the geeks/pundits. They got the iPod wrong. They got the iPhone wrong. And I think they are getting the iPad wrong. It is not going to replace what someone already has. It will fill into the cracks that they did not even know existed.

The iPad is for those times when you need a reasonable amount of computing power but simply do not want the weight or space that even a netbook takes up. I think that will turn out to be quite a lot of time.

The big deal about the iPad is how high powered it will be for almost anything, including business work, for something that weighs as little as it does. My Powerbook weighs 6 pounds. The iPad weighs 1.5. When I travel, do I need a fully loaded, multitasking, behemoth to lug through airports?

Would a 1.5 pound wonder that could carry all my needed documents on the trip, allow me to work on them, and present them to others be great? Would I give up some power to gain ease of use and light weight? I know I would.

The only competitors of the iPad, netbooks, are really just slimmed down laptops. They still weigh a ton compared to the iPad, some coming in at almost 3 pounds. Same with some of the proposed tablets. Sony has a very lightweight netbook, the VAIO W series, which weighs more than the iPad. The cheapest model is $450. And it still weighs over 2 pounds. And to make it useable for a business man, lots of extra money since it is only installed with the Starter edition of Windows 7. And the battery lasts about 3 hours. A longer battery, up to 8 hours, costs $130 more and adds more weight. And no 3G.

You can find VAIO models (the P series) which weigh about the same as the iPad and have 3G. They come with a smaller screen than the iPad but it has higher resolution. However you still get only 3.5 hours of battery life unless you want to add a heavier battery. It costs about $1000 for one of these with 64 GB of memory. The comparable iPad is $829.

And, of course, you have to use the attached keyboard or a mouse to manipulate data. No touchscreen. No way to rotate the screen to get a better viewing angle.

It seems to me that when weight is included, the iPad is very comparable in price and specs to PC netbooks that are out there. But all of those netbooks use space and weight to house a keyboard, while the iPad only has a keyboard when you need it.

I think the iPad is going to be used by a lot of people who do not want to have to lug around even a netbook for what they need to do, want extended battery life without adding more weight and want to interact with their data and apps without needing to type.

A personal example – when my son is home, the three of us will be sitting around watching TV. And all three of us will have our Apple laptops nearby. Whether it is to check.write email during commercial breaks, check up on some fact from Jeopardy or simply skim the Web, we use those laptops all the time.

We could accomplish all of that on an iPad, would not have to worry about tripping over plugs, and not have to worry about burning our laps. All for the cost of just ONE Macbook!

I see this really making desktop models of computers, evan Apples, almost unnecessary for all but the most computationally heavy tasks. Laptops today provide the necessary requirements for almost everyone. And when they have to leave the computer, they can take along an iPad for lighter tasks, without having to lug around a heavy laptop.

So, desktop for those who pursue computer intensive tasks. Laptop for those who just need to get work done. iPad for those times you need to get work done while away from your laptop where weight is critical. iPhone for all the other times when you just need a quick connection to work or the web.

I think they will sell millions.

[Listening to: Matchbox from the album "Past Masters, Vol. 1 [2009 Stereo Remaster]” by The Beatles]

Evolution: The Curious Case of Dogs

Evolution: The Curious Case of Dogs

[Via Observations of a Nerd]

Man’s best friend is much more than a household companion – for about two centuries, artificial selection in dogs has made them prime examples of the possibilities of evolution. While humans have been breeding dogs for over ten thousand years, it was until recently that strict breeds and the emphasis on “purebreds” has led to over 400 different breeds that are some of the best examples of the power of selection. Those that doubt that small variations in traits can lead to large levels of diversity clearly hasn’t compared a Pug to a Great Dane – I mean, just look at them compared to their ancestor:

We’ve turned a fine-tuned hunting animal, the wolf, into a wide variety of creatures, from the wolf-looking shepherds to the bizarre toy breeds. Before domestication, dog’s life was tough, but when people pulled specific wolves out of their packs and began breeding them, we changed everything. There were some traits that made this easy – the social structure of wolves, for example, made them predisposed to belonging to a community. But we opened up a number of genetic traits and allowed them to express variety that would have been fatal in the wild. We not only allowed these traits to persist, we encouraged them. We picked dogs that were less aggressive or looked unique. And in doing so, we spurred on rapid diversification and evolution in an unbelievable way.
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I’m a sucker for dog evolution stories. There is just so much to discuss. I had heard most that was discussed in this blog entry until the end. The feral dogs of Moscow was something i had not heard about and found fascinating. What happens to domesticated dogs when they spend decades without direct human influence on breeding:

When you take away the selective breeding done by humans, a number of these unique traits disappear. But feral dogs don’t just become wolves again – their behaviors and even looks depend greatly on the ecological pressures that surround them. Our centuries of selective breeding have opened a wide variety of traits, both physical and behavioral, that may help a stray dog survive and breed.

A good example of what happens to dogs when people are taken out of the picture lies in Russia’s capital city. Feral dogs have been running around Moscow for at least 150 years. These aren’t just lost pets that band together – these dogs been on their own for awhile, and indeed, any poor, abandoned domesticated canine will meet an unfortunate fate at the hands of these territorial streetwalkers. Moscow’s dogs have lost traits like spotted coloration, wagging tails and friendliness that distinguish domesticated dogs from wolves – but they haven’t become them. The struggle to survive is tough for a stray, and only an estimated 3% ever breed. This strong selective pressure has led them to evolve into four distinct behavioral types, according to biologist Andrei Poyarkov who has studied the dogs for the past 30 years. There are guard dogs, who follow around security personnel, treating them as the alpha leaders of their packs. Others, called scavengers, have evolved completely different behaviors, preferring to roam the city for garbage instead of interacting with people. The most wolf-like dogs are referred to as wild dogs, and they hunt whatever they can find including cats and mice.

But the last group of Moscow’s dogs is by far the most amazing. They are the beggars, for obvious reasons. In these packs, the alpha isn’t the best hunter or strongest, it’s the smartest. The most impressive beggars, however, get their own title: ‘metro dogs’. They rely on scraps of food from the daily commuters who travel the public transportation system. To do so, the dogs have learned to navigate the subway. They know stops by name, and integrate a number of specific stations into their territories.

This dramatic shift from the survival of the fittest to the survival of the smartest has changed how Moscow’s dogs interact with humans and with each other. Beggars are rarely hit by cars, as they have learned to cross the streets when people do. They’ve even been seen waiting for a green light even when no pedestrians are crossing, suggesting that they have actually learned to recognize the green walking man image of the crosswalk signal. Also, there are fewer “pack wars” that once were commonplace between Moscow’s stray canines, some of which used to last for months. However, they remain vigilant against the wild dogs and wolves that live on the outskirts of the city – rarely, if ever, are they permitted into Moscow. When politicians thought to remove the dogs, their use as a buffer against these animals was cited as a strong reason not to disturb them.

Moscow’s exemplary dogs show how different traits help dogs adapt to different ecological niches – whether it be brute strength for hunting in the truly feral wild dogs or intelligence in the almost-domesticated beggars. Some wonder if the strong selection for intellect will make Moscow’s metro dogs into another species all together, if left to their own devices.

These feral dogs breakout into 4 different groups based on personality traits. It would be really interesting to see if these groups interbreed much and where the gene flow goes. I really like the last group, one that has learned to live with man but not as a domesticated animal. These four groups, all finding different niches to fill in the human landscape.
I would bet that it would not take too long to begin domesticating these dogs again. I mean to take some about of their metrodog environment and begin some breeding trials. Probably much easier than domesticating wild wolves.

[Listening to: Know You've Got to Run from the album "Just Roll Tape" by Stephen Stills]