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The sound of sudden inhalation followed, like water being sucked down a drain. I caught a glimpse of a pinkish gray hump before it vanished beneath the murky surface. “Boto,” said Soldado as he tossed his cigarette butt over the railing. The legendary Amazonian river dolphin. It surfaced again, and this time the animal sprayed water ten feet into
... See moreScott Wallace • The Unconquered: In Search of the Amazon's Last Uncontacted Tribes
Ecology is the study of these interrelationships: those unbreakable cords which tie everything to everything else.
James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
The neo-Darwinian perspective, which still dominates the popular understanding of biology, isolates individual organisms or genes from the context of the living matrix that sustains them. Scarcity, competition and individual success are seen as the main drivers of evolution. This is an outdated perspective, based on outdated metaphors like Richard
... See moreDaniel Wahl • Designing Regenerative Cultures
I mean “means of manufacturing and distributing poison gas in urban spaces” might be an area of research, but I’m going guess that anyone who spends their time deeply... See more
TracingWoodgrains • Reliable Sources: How Wikipedia Admin David Gerard Launders His Grudges Into the Public Record
‘We don’t know where the tipping point is’: climate expert on potential collapse of Atlantic circulation
Jonathan Wattstheguardian.com
The very same qualities that have made the “domestic fishes” famous in China have made them infamous in the United States. A well-fed grass carp can weigh more than eighty pounds. In a single day it can eat almost half of its body weight, and it lays hundreds of thousands of eggs at a time. Bigheads can, on occasion, weigh as much as a hundred
... See moreElizabeth Kolbert • Under a White Sky
