February 28, 2011 - Survival of the fittest --- lessons from the wild for all of us! Continue reading
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Environment
June 16, 2010 - 
Forget the Gulf of Mexico. Afghanistan is about to become the world’s latest staging ground for humanity’s insatiable desire to extract resources from the earth to support modern civilization. Look out, Saudia Arabia! Pentagon Papers now tell us that Afghanistan’s… Continue reading
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June 14, 2010 - 
(Ahab and Moby Dick)
A fascinating commentary in Sunday’s New York Times entitled “The Ahab Parallax” drew on the timeless metaphor of Melville’s Moby Dick… to consider the insatiable human quest for oil as the essential fuel of Continue reading
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May 2, 2010 - 
(NASA photo shows oil slick moving toward the Mississippi delta on April 29)
There’s an old children’s song about the hole in the bottom of the sea.… We used to sing it on the way home on our camp bus, Continue reading
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