Over the past year, a surprising number of people have emailed me book suggestions.
I've now read all three books below, and I highly recommend each of them to anyone interested in this whole Ivory-bill saga:
1. Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud, by Robert L. Park.
Mentioned on this blog here.
2. How We Know What Isn't So, by Thomas Gilovich
3. Intuition, by Allegra Goodman.
Mentioned on this blog here.
The Twelve Days of Climate Christmas
2 hours ago
Posts
13 comments:
This comment has nothing to do anything.
I visited the Clark Art Institute yesterday in Williamstown, Ma.
The Clark Family procured a beautiful collection of French, Italian, and American masters.
The Clark's were the owners of the Singer Sewing Machine Company. The Singer Tract owners. I found it ironic that a beautiful bird was finally destroyed by the same captilasts who used the proceeds to purchase such spiritual beauty.
Quote the Raven: Evermore.
I always wondered why no one ever hit up these folks for money to restore bottomland hardwoods (and assuage any guilt they might be feeling...which is probably none).
"We're just money-grubbers"
Maybe they needed the wood to frame the paintings?
Thanks Tom, I have the first two now coming from my local library.
The third one is fiction, isn't it? I get my fill of fiction from this whole IBWO fiasco.
The Clark's were the owners of the Singer Sewing Machine Company. The Singer Tract owners. I found it ironic that a beautiful bird was finally destroyed by the same captilasts who used the proceeds to purchase such spiritual beauty.
I don't know how much Singer is to blame. Wasn't it the Chicago Lumber and Mill company that decided to log the place?
"The Singer Manufacturing Company, maker of sewing machines, owned 73,000 acres of mostly virgin forest in northeastern Louisiana. By 1939 Chicago Mill and Lumber had purchased this entire tract and began to produce wooden boxes, and tables, for Singer sewing machines."
I had read that Singer leased the land to the Chicago Mill. Never sold it. Chicago Mill refused to give up the leasing rights. Singer then gave up the land to USFWS in 1981.
Anybody know the true story? Tom you posted it somewhere.
what the heck, I'll recommend 3 additional books:
"It Ain't Necessarily So: The Dream of the Human Genome Project and Other Illusions" by Richard Lewontin
"A Fish Caught In Time - the Search For the Coelacanth" by Samantha Weinberg
"The Carolina Parakeet - Glimpses of a Vanished Bird" by Noel Snyder
(...anything to keep you guys otherwise occupied)
----------------------------------
Cyberthrush
What a rush
His posts
Are boasts
Of what “ifs”
And other quips
Of “yes buts”
Of zealots
But sometimes
Our lifetimes
See extinction
And no spokesman
Can reveal
Thru spiel
That an Ivory Bill is comparable to a fish fish!!
I suggest a rename of your blog to IVORY BILLS I WISH!!!!
Oops, that was supposed to be only one fish. I'm not sure what a fish fish is.
I tried to get "Coelacanth" in there somewhere but I'm just a ditty writer
After all the psychics and aliens and superanons, we hang by the thin thread of the hidden coelacanth.
A fish in the hand is worth two birds in the bush.
In the spirit of Cyberthrush, I offer you these,
In Me Own Words: The Autobiography of Bigfoot Right from the horse’s mouth!
Digital Video! I Didn’t Know You Could Do That Spice up that blurry video!!
Art Poster Metal Framed Print - Pileated Woodpecker - Artist: John James Audubon- Poster Size: 20 X When you finally give up on the Ivory Bill, here’s your nice consolation prize
Just helping Cyberthrush et al to decompress. They’ve had quite a ride!
Also in the Spirit of Cyberthrush
Ornithology (from the Greek ornitha = chicken and logos = word/science) is the branch of biology concerned with the scientific study of birds. It includes observations on the structure and classification of birds, and on their habits, song and flight.
The scientific study - do the terms proof versus belief versus psychic powers fall in here somewhere.
Post a Comment