Martha Jean's Blog

This site WAS going to be an online portfolio or resume, but now it is mostly a virtual display case for a few things I want to remember. However, if you get curious you can view my resume by clicking on the link to the left. One more thing - check out my vintage shop on Etsy if you like! It's always a delightful work in progress. :)

May 26, 2010 2:16 am
Whales and dolphins - 'resource' or 'right'?

New research is showing that whales and dolphins possess intelligence and culture more complex that we had previously assumed, says Margi Prideaux. And, she argues, this raises anew the question of how we should relate to them - including whether it is ever right to hunt them.

April 7, 2010 4:45 pm
"Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a “necessary evil”, it begins to look more and more necessary and less and less evil."

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Sydney J. Harris, journalist (1917-1986)
February 5, 2010 10:06 am
"A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."

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Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel laureate (1879-1955)