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Will the bird that dodged a bullet pay the price of peace?

November 2, 2017March 20, 2019 / mike shanahan / 1 Comment

Blue-billed Curassow (Crax alberti) in Colombia's Aviario Nacional (national aviary) - Photo by Mike Shanahan

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A cautionary tale: Kony 2012 – The backlash

March 7, 2012March 8, 2012 / mike shanahan / 36 Comments

Would you give guys like these your money if they said they would spend it well? Or follow them into a messy world of politics and power that you don’t really understand? Many thousands did this week without asking the questions that social media now enable us to ask. From at least some quarters of the internet, the online backlash was swift.

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The Nazi threat and climate-change denial

December 10, 2010December 16, 2025 / mike shanahan / 11 Comments

Nobody wants to have to deal with the immense challenge of climate change but unless our leaders step up to fight the good fight, the war will come to us. Continue reading →

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