With the release Al Gore’s film An Inconvenient Truth, I’m on the verge of of one of the more "patriotic" July 4th’s since 1996 when I heard Seiji Ozawa conduct the Boston Symphony playing Copland's “Fanfare for the Common Man” (LISTEN here) at Tanglewood with James Earl Jones reading the…
University of Arizona graduate and marine biologist Dr. Wallace J. Nichols was featured on Animal Planet’s “Get Out There!” last week. The show transports American families on VIP nature tours into wilderness areas to see an array of wildlife. Guided by biologists, each family ventures into the back country to…
By BRITTANY PARKIN YALI’S QUESTION In his Pulitzer Prize winning book, Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond proposes a theory to explain the apparent gap between the First World and the Third World. His thesis was sparked by a question posed by a New Guinean named Yali who asked the…
Just see this film. The issue of our lifetimes. No excuses. Just as Michael Moore’s Farenheit 9-11 seems remarkably prescient now, An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore’s book Earth in the Balance and his relentless work to make the future of our planet a more serious political issue hit the nail…
Aguirre, A, SC Gardner, JC Marsh, SG Delgado, CJ Limpus, and WJ Nichols. 2006. Potential human health risks associated with the consumption of sea turtle meat and eggs: A global perspective. Submitted paper, 26th Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation, Island of Crete, Greece, April 2006. POTENTIAL HUMAN…
