Biomorphs re-visited

Democracy is good for the environment


Guess what! Russia is building more trawlers to be ready to fish out the Arctic Ocean as soon as global warming clears enough ice. They want to get their share before the fish stocks collapse in forty years. And who will oppose the government’s short-sighted plan, when having something they covet can get you trumped-up tax evasion charges and exposing their cruelties risks a bullet to the brain?

It reminds me of when I heard that the Soviet Union had dumped thousands of oil barrels filled with radioactive waste into the Arctic Ocean off their coasts. Who would oppose them when that could earn them, not the tut-tutting of authorities about signs on the lawn, but a one-way ticket to Siberia?

The photo was taken in Siberia at the Kara Sea by a professor of Geology, Ólafur Ingólfsson, in 1997.

Quoting Frank Zindler

Frank Zindler said:

To believe that consciousness can survive the wreck of the brain is like believing that 70 mph can survive the wreck of the car.

Who is Frank Zindler?

Friday cephalopod blogging: where to find them


The range of octopus species is clearly limited by ocean temperature.