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Thought this might interest and amuse you

April 4th, 2007

This is a map of the USA compiled by interest believing in teaching evolution as a scientific fact in schools ( which I assume embraces most of us in the zoo world)/ I believe it was first published in Scientific American http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2007/04/03/97-%e2%80%93-where-and-how-evolution-is-taught-in-the-us/

I hate ‘Sustainability”.

April 2nd, 2007

Well, actually, I hate the word ‘sustainability’.  And I hate ‘biodiversity’.  And  I hate ‘environmentalism’.  And ‘ecology’.  I am not very keen on ‘conservation’  for that matter. But ‘sustainability’ is down there as the absolute worst. It is a clunky, ugly, pretentious, polysyllabic ,agglutinative invention. totally lacking in any compelling emotion or ‘gut feel’   What is it [...]