Tag: whales
What Do Orcas Want? Rights! When Do They Want Them? Now!
Apparently orcas are threatened in an area of Canadian waters. The government has suggested voluntary sanctuaries.
Japanese Whaling and Human Exceptionalism
Japan has quit the International Whaling Commission so that it can resume commercial slaughter of leviathans.
Evolution Miseducation at the University of Utah
If you want your sons and daughters to be well educated about evolution, then hope their biology teachers don’t rely on materials from the Genetic Science Learning Center.
The Intelligent Design Underground and Other Reflections
A biologist in our network worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard. He recounted how about a quarter of the postdocs he encountered were at least sympathetic to design arguments.
Gecko, Fairyfly, Manta Ray: Animals Push the Limits of the Possible
What are we to think of humble animals that make the semi-miraculous look routine?