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Ghost in the machine

Ghosts In The Machine Are Killing Our Oceans: How Armchair Science is Sinking Ocean Reality

April 19, 2025
Russ George
School of Ocean Pastures, Stories For And From The Heart

The Dangerous Drift Away from Real-World Experimentation in Ocean and Fisheries Science In the world of science, once defined by salt-streaked lab notebooks and wind-battered…

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Ragland flys the flag

Ocean Pasture Restoration 2002 with BBC

April 22, 2021
Russ George
Stories For And From The Heart

Time flies while having fun. Or trying to save the world! Working to Bringing Back The Fish Back in 2002 I entertained some BBC radio…

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Tseshaht river

I Am Salmon Film

November 22, 2020
Russ George
Stories For And From The Heart

On the west coast of Canada, the wild salmon is a spirit animal They are revered by the people there for their endless contribution to…

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kasatochi

Kasatochi – A Volcano Miracle For The Ocean

October 26, 2020
Russ George
Stories For And From The Heart

Does Mother Nature Influence Us In Subtle Ways I do believe she has her favourites, she surely has her ways. Listen carefully when Mother Nature…

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Ragland flys the flag

Pardon My Dust, Excuse the mess, there’s gonna be something beautiful on the other side of this

August 11, 2017
Russ George
Stories For And From The Heart

I am not waiting for someone else to save the world Our world’s ocean pastures are becoming clear blue lifeless deserts It’s time to restore…

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lanzei lake

Becoming One With The Ocean

July 16, 2017
Russ George
Stories For And From The Heart

Decades ago in my youth I was an avid canoeist, water seemed to be my preferred habitat It has taken a lifetime of stormy experiences…

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spark of life

I Am But A Spark, A Quantum Of Life

March 23, 2017
Russ George
Stories For And From The Heart

Each morning I awake to greet the day I stretch my self into the sky I breathe in what the night has gifted to me…

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A True Giant Of A Tree

A True Giant Of A Tree

February 19, 2016
Russ George
Stories For And From The Heart

This Giant Sequoia in the high Sierra brings back memories for me. About this time of year some 20 or so years ago I took…

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junior birdman

Up In The Air Junior Birdman, lessons from the desert Southwest

February 1, 2016
Russ George
Stories For And From The Heart

A long time ago in my first summer of college, 50 years ago, I was befriended by an aging professor emeritus who taught Ornithology, bird…

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gray whale eye contact

You Scratch My Back, I’ll Scratch Yours – Say Flirty Gray Whales

January 27, 2016
Russ George
Stories For And From The Heart

One favourite pastime some years back was to kayak with Gray Whales at the mouth of the Strait of Juan de Fuca. This story takes…

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griz tundra

Leave Clear Footprints So Others Can Follow More Easily

January 26, 2016
Russ George
Stories For And From The Heart

In living lives with a love of Nature while we might hope to ‘take nothing but pictures and leave nothing but footprints’ It is vital…

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treeplanting cookshack

My Treeplanting Early Days (and life) Restoring Devastated Ecosystems

January 22, 2016
Russ George
Stories For And From The Heart

One spring day in the early 1970’s I was perhaps not quite dead broke but I was very surely badly bent. I was living in…

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mom and baby whale

Whale Children Babble As They Learn To Talk Just Like Human Kids

January 20, 2016
Russ George
Get Your Geek On, Good News For The Planet, Stories For And From The Heart

Listening to our babbling babies learning to talk is one of life’s great joys. We are not alone! Researchers from several nations have reported in…

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bunkhouse

Jack Cardinal Indian Logger Who Blamed Me When He Could No Longer Bear To Hear The Trees Scream

September 1, 2015
Russ George
Stories For And From The Heart

This is my true story of learning what happens when you become aware and listen to nature. Some many decades ago, the early 70’s, when…

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Cayuse Angel

Cayuse Angel

September 1, 2015
Russ George
Stories For And From The Heart

Nearly 50 years ago I was saved by a good friend and a friendly cayuse Angel from certain death in the high rocky mountains. My…

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40 Million Salmon Can't Be Wrong

40 Million Salmon Can’t Be Wrong

August 3, 2014
Russ George
Bring Back The Fish, Stories For And From The Heart

40 Million Salmon Stage Show – Watch It Now 40 Million Salmon Can’t Be Wrong is a musical stage show about bringing back and preserving…

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kwibi gorilla loving his pal

We Can Only Hope We Might Be Called Animals

August 1, 2014
Russ George
Stories For And From The Heart

Some seem to think that we are alone! It’s not true as these videos reveal. To be called animals might just be the highest of…

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mermaids in manilla

An Ocean Field Of Dreams

July 26, 2014
mermaid
Stories For And From The Heart

Can a field of dreams, of magic waters,  save the world for the sake of us all and bring back the fish? Russ George is…

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Fish, Nature, And God All Part And Parcel Of A Great Puzzle

Fish, Nature, And God All Part And Parcel Of A Great Puzzle

April 14, 2014
Russ George
Stories For And From The Heart

When I was a boy I had the good luck to grow up with a father who liked to fish. While catching fish is the…

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Must Be The Season Of The Fish, must be the season of the fish.

Must Be The Season Of The Fish, must be the season of the fish.

April 14, 2014
Russ George
Stories For And From The Heart

Dear James, A friend sent me  note a few days ago about the river he lives near that is still frozen but almost ready for…

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  • It’s Not the Weather: The Mystery of the Warm Blob is Due to Collapse of North Pacific Ocean Plankton Pastures
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Interesting Snippets

Often one cannot catch the unknown in a net of the known. - anon

"There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such trifling investment of fact." Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi

"It's like religion. Heresy in science is thought of as a bad thing, whereas it should be just the opposite." - Thomas Gold

Unnamed Law: If it happens, it must be possible.

" If you steal from one person, well they call that plagarism. I steal from everyone, they call that research. - Woody Guthrie

“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.”

- Thomas Pynchon

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. - Arthur C. Clarke's First Law

It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover. - H. Poincare

"Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature." - Michael Faraday

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. - Max Planck

Corollary: Science advances funeral by funeral.

A man with a new idea is a crank until he succeeds. - Mark Twain

Never attribute to conspiracy that which is adequately explained by stupidity. - R. George

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are that good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. - Howard Aiken

I am tired of all this sort of thing called science here ... We have spent millions in that sort of thing for the last few years, and it is time it should be stopped. - U.S. Senator Simon Cameron, on the Smithsonian Institute (1901)

The one who says it cannot be done should never interrupt the one who's doing it!  The Roman Rule

 "I never make predictions, especially about the future" - Casey Stengle

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