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		<title>Henry Miller On Writing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 17:40:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every writer has his or her own formula for getting the work done, and making writing a profession that sustains. So I am always interested in what writers have to say about how they go about it. Here is an excellent set of &#8220;Commandments&#8221; from Henry Miller, who wrote a lot and wrote well (and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timzimmermann.com&amp;blog=8683890&amp;post=3065&amp;subd=timzimmermann&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Terrestrial World Is Giving The Ocean World Flu</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:38:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Parasites and pathogens that infect humans, pets and farm animals are increasingly showing up in marine mammals. This isn&#8217;t really surprising, but it&#8217;s just one more reminder that EVERYTHING humans do matters to the system as a whole. Here&#8217;s the gist (full story here): Between 1998 and 2010, nearly 5,000 marine mammal carcasses were recovered [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timzimmermann.com&amp;blog=8683890&amp;post=3062&amp;subd=timzimmermann&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Would You Like Your Test Tube Burger?</title>
		<link>http://timzimmermann.com/2012/02/23/how-would-you-like-your-test-tube-burger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:26:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Right now they are very rare (get it?). But scientists, as they will, are plowing ahead with the development of in vitro meat, also dubbed Frankenmeat. From a moral and environmental point of view, the logic is unassailable: So-called test-tube meat is being developed to slash the environmental impacts of factory farming, improve consumer health [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timzimmermann.com&amp;blog=8683890&amp;post=3059&amp;subd=timzimmermann&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Driftnet Destruction</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 14:47:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The problem with drift nets is that they, well, drift. For a long, long, time. The non-profit The Blackfish is launching a new campaign to stop illegal drift net use in the Mediterranean. Here&#8217;s what got them going:<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timzimmermann.com&amp;blog=8683890&amp;post=3055&amp;subd=timzimmermann&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A New Orca Website Worth Following</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:47:27 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Diary Of A Killer Whale]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marine parks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[orcas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is no one who has more knowledge and credibility when it comes to what really goes on for trainers and whales at marine parks than former orca trainers. Now four former SeaWorld trainers, all of whom have contributed enormously to my reporting on SeaWorld and orcas, have launched a cool new website called Voice [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timzimmermann.com&amp;blog=8683890&amp;post=3051&amp;subd=timzimmermann&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Orca Morgan&#8217;s Apprenticeship Begins</title>
		<link>http://timzimmermann.com/2012/01/18/orca-morgans-apprenticeship-begins/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:35:51 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Diary Of A Killer Whale]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Loro Parque]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, actually it began almost from her first days at Harderwijk. But speaking of the relationship between humans and intelligent, social animals, here are some clips which show Morgan learning her new life as a performing orca at Loro Parque. UPDATE: And here&#8217;s one more, from Jan. 18<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timzimmermann.com&amp;blog=8683890&amp;post=3043&amp;subd=timzimmermann&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Restricting Medical Research On Chimps</title>
		<link>http://timzimmermann.com/2012/01/18/restricting-medical-research-on-chimps/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Reinvention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[animal rights]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have no doubt that the next great evolution in humanity&#8217;s relationship with animals is a steady expansion of animal rights that will start to elevate the most social and intelligent animals to an approximation of &#8220;personhood.&#8221;. I don&#8217;t know how fast it will happen,  but I do believe that it will happen and that, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timzimmermann.com&amp;blog=8683890&amp;post=3039&amp;subd=timzimmermann&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Factory Farms Are Killing You (Reason #463)</title>
		<link>http://timzimmermann.com/2012/01/13/factory-farms-are-killing-you-reason-463/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:29:43 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most short-sighted and objectionable practices of factory farms (sadly, there are so many to choose from) is the massive use of antibiotics on healthy animals in an effort to stave off illness that might prevent getting them to the slaughter. And when I say massive, I mean massive. US factory farms pour [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timzimmermann.com&amp;blog=8683890&amp;post=3036&amp;subd=timzimmermann&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Outing Greenhouse Gas Godzillas</title>
		<link>http://timzimmermann.com/2012/01/12/outing-greenhouse-gas-godzillas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 20:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Want to know who is dumping tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere? And where they are? The EPA has you covered, with its Interactive Greenhouse Emissions Map.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timzimmermann.com&amp;blog=8683890&amp;post=3033&amp;subd=timzimmermann&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Market Solution For Saving Whales?</title>
		<link>http://timzimmermann.com/2012/01/12/a-market-solution-for-saving-whales/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:40:54 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greenpeace and Sea Shepherd confrontations with whaling fleets make for good television. But despite their efforts lots of whales still die every year (some 2000, in fact). Environmental economists Christopher Costello, Steve Gaines, and Leah Berger think that market incentives might be a better way to reduce the numbers of whales killed every year. Writing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timzimmermann.com&amp;blog=8683890&amp;post=3029&amp;subd=timzimmermann&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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