Needlefish at night – photo Umeed Mistry Our last newsletter was an overview of the phenomenology of the sound perception of fishes in the context of lab-produced auditory threshold testing – revealing that measuring the acoustical sensitivities of fishes in…
Fishes can “hear” their surroundings though their bodies – sensing where they are. Are they “aware” of this? Perhaps no more than we are “aware” of seeing through our eyes.
s I’ve previously indicated, I’ve been sparing my nerves by not reacting seriously until I “see the whites of their eyes,” – and I have to take in with amusement some of the conflicts and narratives that are being revealed.
Earth Day sprung out of concern – driven by a lot of environmental disasters leading up to what congealed into the environmental movement of 1970.
In the realm of conservation, we struggle with terms like ‘eco-anxiety’ and ‘environmental existential dread,’ acknowledging their impact on us. Amid the backdrop of climate calamity, it’s crucial that we don’t succumb to hopelessness, for action finds its wings in…
Regardless of how close or distant, we are all lucky that Daniel and Patricia Ellsberg have been in our lives. I was so fortunate to have intersected their circles by way of a couple of orbits – one through Patricia’s…
Ahoy OCR Community, The third week of May, we embarked on a thrilling odyssey through the San Francisco Bay as part of our ongoing hands-on Citizen Science Program. In honor of World Ocean Day, I am sharing both my personal experience…
It is June 8 – World Ocean Day, we’ve circled the sun yet another time. and the Ocean remains…
None of these animals are merely “response machines;” rather they all have complex, and generally delightful personalities.
