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A review of the birdcentric novel “Accidentals” (the title of which is in the plural for a reason)

10,000 Birds

She lives part-time in Uruguay and is co-director of the Fiction Meets Science program at the University of Bremen, Germany, which seeks to bridge the “two cultures” of science and literature. Her narrator is Gabriel, 23, raised in Northern California by an American father and a Uruguayan mother.

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Tom Regan on the Use of Animals in Science

Animal Ethics

All that the rights view prohibits is science that violates individual rights. The rights view merely requires moral consistency in this regard. ( Tom Regan , The Case for Animal Rights , updated with a new preface [Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004], 388 [first edition published in 1983])

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

If the goal is not moral perfection for ourselves, but the maximum benefit for animals, half-measures ought to be encouraged and appreciated. 22, 2009 The writer is professor emeritus at the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at California State University, Long Beach. Lerner Woodside, Calif.,

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Collaborative List – November 2019

10,000 Birds

California Quail – Callipepla californica. Mark Hatfield Marine Science Center and Estuary Trail. Mark Hatfield Marine Science Center and Estuary Trail. Mark Hatfield Marine Science Center and Estuary Trail. California Gull – Larus californicus. California Gull – Larus californicus.

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Some Chinese Pheasants

10,000 Birds

I feel that thanking your own baby for moral support in the acknowledgment section of a Ph.D. Examples: California. This turned out to be nice for one researcher who thus could do the research for her Ph.D. thesis – as she did – is a bit much though. Connecticut. New Jersey. North Dakota. Rhode Island. South Dakota.

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Collaborative List – August 2017

10,000 Birds

California Quail – Callipepla californica. Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Mark Hatfield Marine Science Center and Estuary Trail. California Gull – Larus californicus. Punta Morales–UNA Station (ECMAR). Punta Morales–UNA Station (ECMAR). 21.3151x-77.8360 – Roadside stop.

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