10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2011

And if you look into it enough, it presents a classic case where science can fail us. I believe in science. Science is based on logic and evidence, which I think is a very respectable way to look at the world. But what many people fail to realize, and too often scientists themselves, is that science is elastic.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2016

Yes, it’s physically massive, exhaustively researched, rich with appendices and notes and maps and illustrations, and in every way the sort of thing that you look at and think “Wow, this author really, really cares about John James Audubon. Yes, even the title is bulky.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2018

The Prologue presents the two contrasting obsessions, a narrative that intrigues with promises of more details to come. This is also where Johnson starts talking about the cost of the theft to the Museum and to science. The skins were invaluable tools for ornithological, ecological, environmental research. Mostly adult males.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2014

We sing about them, we paint them, we use them as mythic and poetic symbols for our spiritual and emotional feelings, we wear them in myriad and often colorful ways, we adopt them as household pets. Jonathan Elphick and John Fanshawe provided “specialist research” and support.” Larks, for example.

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Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

For those who didn't read the five-part Slate series " Pepper, the stolen dog who changed American science " by Daniel Engber , I recommend it for the history, but also for the misconceptions and assumptions that you might want to discuss on the Facebook discussion about the series. Let's deconstruct: Part I: Where's Pepper?

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