Month: January 2008
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How Much is a Blue Whale Worth? Establishing a Market Value for the Environment
Blue Whale Display American Natural History Museum Photo by Ryan Somma Whale-watching businesses use blue whales to sell their product. Documentary-makers use blue whales to sell Nature Films. Nature magazines like National Geographic use blue whales to sell magazines. Marine Biologists use blue whales to learn more about the natural world. Whalers use whales to…
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The Smithsonian Natural History Museum
I’ve got a huge backlog of photos I need to get up on Flickr, enough to cover several months worth of Saturndays. Here’s two sets from the Smithsonian Natural History Museum: Hall of Bones Man and the Manlike Apes The Hall of Bones does a great job of illustrating the incredible biological and adaptation diversity…
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Geek Exercise and Body Hacking
I’ve been up and down health-wise all my life. From years of swimming all day long as a child, to years of vegging out in front of the TV in High School, to taking a proactive, fitness-center approach to my health, to falling off the proverbial wagon and putting on the pounds, back to climbing…
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Inhofe’s Global Warming Book Report Continued…
My deconstruction of the logical fallacies in Inhofe’s recent report, titled Senate Report Debunks “Consensus” on Global Warming drew a whole lot of comments on my otherwise thoroughly-ignored blog. I really wish the report had come out at a more convenient time, instead of when I had the blog on auto-pilot for the holidays. I…
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Happy Birthday Isaac Asimov!
Isaac Asimov Author or editor of over 500 books, including the incredible Foundation Series and I, Robot books. I was led to Asimov by my favorite author at the time, Kurt Vonnegut, who lavished much praise on his prolific friend. Asimov and Vonnegut are now equal in my eyes, Vonnegut for his humanity, Asimov for…