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An irregular exploration of the struggle between the power of rational discourse and the scientific method on one hand, and the forces of superstition and dogma on the other. Mostly regarding climate change, though.
James Hrynyshyn is a freelance science journalist based in western North Carolina, where he tries to put degrees in marine biology and journalism to good use.
The Demon-Haunted World:
Science as a Candle
in the Dark,
by Carl Sagan
(A
review)
The Doubter's Companion:
by John Ralston Saul (Excerpts)
Skeptic Magazine: www.skeptic.com
Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal: www.csicop.org
A poem by Yehuda Amichai:
The
Place
Where We Are Right
The Meaning of the
Island of Doubt
By doubting we come to inquiry; and through inquiry we perceive truth.
--- Peter Abelard
Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
-- Richard Dawkins
As for evolution, it happened. Deal with it.
-- Michael Shermer.
"There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things
which make us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand.
Resolve, then, that on this very ground, with small flags waving, and
tiny blasts of tinny trumpets, we have met the enemy, and not only may
he be ours, he may be us."
--Walt Kelly
Category: cetacea
I'm gettin' bugged driving up and down the same old strip I gotta finda new place where the kids are hip My buddies and me are getting real well known Yeah, the bad guys know us and they leave us...
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 9:14 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: cetacea
Looks like we won't be needing a team of aging, time-traveling Starfleet officers to save the humpbacks after all. The IUCN has downlisted (I hate that word!) (Megaptera novaeangliae) from Vulnerable to Least Concern. Only took 25 years of keeping...
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 12:18 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: cetacea
It's still far too early to tie what may or may not be going on with the minke to global warming.
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 3:08 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: cetacea
Funny, I didn't know one needed a marine biology degree to work in the White House.
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 6:53 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: cetacea
Whales hear through their jaws, right? Maybe not, if a new study is correct......
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 10:11 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: cetacea
There still a lot we don't understand about how whales react to the noise equivalent of a jumbo jet landing on the street in front of your house.
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 8:57 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: cetacea
So nice to start the year off the right note for a change.
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 11:35 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: cetacea
Only die-hard deep ecologists would argue that environmental concerns, whether the topic is whales or climate change, should always be given priority over national security.
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 9:33 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: cetacea
Monday we heard that a group of rogue Makah Indians killed a gray whale without going through the red tape that they're supposed to (or bothering to land it). Tuesday comes a new study that shows the eastern Pacific gray...
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 3:18 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: cetacea
Actually, burning it would probably be better than this. A barge overturned and dumped a loaded diesel truck in waters just metres from Robson Bight, one of those areas where the term "ecologically sensitive" just doesn't do seem to do...
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 8:32 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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