Here’s an idea…let’s all think for ourselves for a change

Slowly being driven insane…..

By: The Philosophical Fish|28 March, 2008|Categories: Just Thinking|Tags: random

For the past several mornings, at 6:28 am, a soft beeping emanates from an, as yet, unknown location in my apartment. It lasts for approximately 10 seconds…which has yet to be enough time to find the source.We came back from a short trip over the Easter weekend…so I tore apart all the luggage this morning, nothing. I had almost convinced…

Selective Information

By: The Philosophical Fish|28 March, 2008|Categories: Just Thinking|Tags: critical thinking

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I generally can’t abide the man, he portrays himself as speaking for the larger scientific community, which he doesn’t. But he makes some stellar points in this particular essay. It’s well worth a read….information is everywhere, critical thinking is not….. Selective Information Overload By thegreenpages editor on March 26, 2008 6:26 PM | Permalink Science Matters column by David Suzuki…

B.C. places moratorium on salmon farming on North Coast

By: The Philosophical Fish|28 March, 2008|Categories: Just Thinking|Tags: critical thinking . fish . Travel

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It’s ironic, we are so fixated on the negatives of fish farming that we fail to see that there are also benefits…support to coastal communities devastated by depleted fish stocks. Benefits to the wild fish because aquaculture can, to some degree, reduce the pressure on wild stocks. In the Skeena watershed the threat is not so much from farmed to…

Living with cats

By: The Philosophical Fish|27 March, 2008|Categories: Just Thinking|Tags: pets

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I’ve always lived with cats, or at least with “a” cat. When I was very young, I had a big mean old tabby, Tigger. I don’t remember him very well, just some blurry visions of an orange tabby behind the couch. Mom tells me he was a mean old thing and that she had him put down. That burst that…