Creating another blog: Woolly Mammoth Chronicles

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Though it isn't clear to me how I'll have time to keep up with posting on yet another blog, a new weblog has been up and running since November 20, 2010, and it's filling in quite nicely so far.

In January 2010 on Gather, I posted a brief entry concerning the potential cloning of a woolly mammoth as reported by CBS' 60 Minutes, and yes, Science may one day do just that. Why this is of such concern to me, I'm not certain, especially since Science does things all the time that seem to me to be...well, reckless, feckless, and/or self-serving.

My basic opinion is that if Science can't repair what they arrogantly break, it shouldn't be broken until they can. There is such a thing as crossing natural boundaries and the splitting of the atom falls into this category. How much better for the world if that genie had not been set loose!

So if you're not quite ready for a woolly mammoth as your neighbor, I prescribe a tentative first-visit to my new blog where you'll find more info on such topics so I won't repeat myself here. And there be videos, too.

Thing is, my idea for http://woollymammothchronicles.blogspot.com/  was to publish related Science News, express my misgivings about the mammoth cloning project, and include for comic relief (hopefully!) some of the Odes to a Woolly Mammoth which have been occurring to me all year, unbidden.

Apparently the rhymes are compliments of the ethereal Weird Science muse, if indeed there be one.

So join in! For your own Odes to a Woolly Mammoth are invited as well, and I hope you'll consider checking out my new blog and leaving a comment, if you wish (Odes optional.)

There's also a poll (sidebar, upper right) concerning this Frankenstein-inspired cloning project so please take a moment to register your own feelings upon the matter, as you wish!