tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post8894567964238425117..comments2023-10-14T09:40:06.690-05:00Comments on Jean Kazez: The Orca at Sea WorldJean Kazezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00592593002719828153noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-77606381822407089192010-02-28T18:38:57.331-06:002010-02-28T18:38:57.331-06:00Let's me add a few details.
Chile has image ...Let's me add a few details. <br /><br />Chile has image and a self-image of being an ultra-competitive, ultra-modern society, a society where each economic agent (the word "citizen" is out of date) with his or her cell-phone, hopefully an I-phone (I have neither a cellphone nor an I-phone), can text their way through traffic jams, through heart-attacks, can text an organ s. wallersteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17448905469871566228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-22444564336285594582010-02-28T17:29:51.023-06:002010-02-28T17:29:51.023-06:00Amos, That's a great update, actually. Would y...Amos, That's a great update, actually. Would you mind if I put it in a post?Jean Kazezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00592593002719828153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-1094883170717815322010-02-28T17:11:49.194-06:002010-02-28T17:11:49.194-06:00Wow. Good to hear you are OK Amos. Take care of yo...Wow. Good to hear you are OK Amos. Take care of yourself.Faustnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-85903392192737500332010-02-28T16:58:18.580-06:002010-02-28T16:58:18.580-06:00Thanks, Jean, but I don't always have intern...Thanks, Jean, but I don't always have internet. It comes and it goes, so it's not a good moment for me to blog. In general, this was a very serious earthquake, 8.8 in the south of Chile and 8.0 in Santiago. The Haitian earthquake was 7.0, and the scale increases geometrically, that is, the Chilean earthquake was several hundred times stronger than that of Haiti. Lots of s. wallersteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17448905469871566228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-79796273143790247662010-02-28T16:36:05.756-06:002010-02-28T16:36:05.756-06:00That makes sense. If you wanted to put a guest po...That makes sense. If you wanted to put a guest post on my blog about what's going on there that would be awfully interesting. But quite possibly you have much more pressing things to do right now. Just send by email and I'll put up whatever you like.Jean Kazezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00592593002719828153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-5662129821615794512010-02-28T15:50:28.123-06:002010-02-28T15:50:28.123-06:00Jean: That building is a national scandal. The...Jean: That building is a national scandal. There are good building codes here, although some people cut corners and apparently, they cut many corners in building that apartment building which collapsed. Today they are trying to rescue the people in that building, but are finding only dead bodies. Otherwise, as I say, the buildings that collapse are very old houses built before s. wallersteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17448905469871566228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-33023840436834641132010-02-28T10:17:53.928-06:002010-02-28T10:17:53.928-06:00Amos, That's good news. Not sure about "...Amos, That's good news. Not sure about "only the poor" though. There's a picture of a new apartment building lying on it's side in today's New York Times. <br /><br />http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/01/world/americas/01chile.html?hpJean Kazezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00592593002719828153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-45438174865427017152010-02-27T09:15:10.030-06:002010-02-27T09:15:10.030-06:00Rtk: Thanks. I'm ok. Some minor problems...Rtk: Thanks. I'm ok. Some minor problems, but earthquakes kill the poor. This earthquake is stronger than the one in Haiti, but only 80 deaths so far.<br />The difference is better building standards and I assume that the only houses which collapsed in Chile were those of the poor.s. wallersteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17448905469871566228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-66392327041147658552010-02-27T08:06:16.350-06:002010-02-27T08:06:16.350-06:00Ophelia--I guess I'm remembering this from a w...Ophelia--I guess I'm remembering this from a while back--the whole drama of a cougar (eg) killing someone, and then being captured and killed as if a criminal. It seems like zookeepers' sensibilities have changed over the years.<br /><br />Wayne--OK, the "prison" talk is a bit colorful, but I think it's true that zoos have a devastating effect on quality of life for many Jean Kazezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00592593002719828153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-88894385870817494092010-02-27T07:55:52.633-06:002010-02-27T07:55:52.633-06:00Amos, I'm wondering the same thing.Amos, I'm wondering the same thing.Jean Kazezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00592593002719828153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-53934334259570872372010-02-27T05:40:59.292-06:002010-02-27T05:40:59.292-06:00Off topic: AMOS, are you okay?! I just read the n...Off topic: AMOS, are you okay?! I just read the news about the 8.8 earthquake.rtkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11565006451158819782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-22004988793252556042010-02-26T23:07:49.182-06:002010-02-26T23:07:49.182-06:00Interesting post. You inspiried me to write somet...Interesting post. You inspiried me to write something about it too. Maybe they'll release the orca?crystalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05681674503952991492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-29549354849546736852010-02-26T11:42:39.588-06:002010-02-26T11:42:39.588-06:00I posted my comment before reading the link. But ...I posted my comment before reading the link. But even after reading it, I'm not sure the criticisms stand. Especially when it comes to some zoos, (not so much sea world). Macken's imaginary biologist is an obvious hyperbole. We can learn lots about giraffes in a zoo, which consequently can make us more aware and more caring about them in the wild. <br /><br />Like it or not, humans Waynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08627147979307495870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-47589953303273151032010-02-26T11:37:40.641-06:002010-02-26T11:37:40.641-06:00I'm not so sure that we can whole heartedly ju...I'm not so sure that we can whole heartedly just dismiss zoos as animal prisons. They do a lot of work in the area of conservation, and raise awareness of wild animal populations. The last time I went to the zoo, virtually every exhibit gave us environmental context of the animal's natural habitat, and almost all of them attempted to raise awareness of habitat destruction by various Waynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08627147979307495870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-16816877315647214582010-02-26T11:21:42.313-06:002010-02-26T11:21:42.313-06:00http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8539419.stmhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8539419.stms. wallersteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17448905469871566228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-70651969911105730212010-02-26T10:34:07.082-06:002010-02-26T10:34:07.082-06:00I was going to email you about that post, checked ...I was going to email you about that post, checked here first, no need to email.<br /><br />I don't think killing is any longer the usual way of dealing with (non-farm etc) animals that kill humans - in fact it probably hasn't been for several decades. (That doesn't apply to situations where killing the animal would save the human, of course - just to after the fact killing.)<br /><br Ophelia Bensonhttp://www.butterfliesandwheels.comnoreply@blogger.com