http://heyhelen.com/2009/02/telling-fish-tales/ Science Writer Thu, 09 Sep 2010 21:23:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://heyhelen.com/2009/02/telling-fish-tales/comment-page-1/#comment-14 Helen Tue, 17 Feb 2009 04:00:24 +0000 http://heyhelen.com/?p=40#comment-14 It's true - tuna are big! It was a long time before I realized that. It’s true – tuna are big! It was a long time before I realized that.

]]> http://heyhelen.com/2009/02/telling-fish-tales/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Helen Fields » Blog Archive » bad news bared Sun, 15 Feb 2009 05:46:41 +0000 http://heyhelen.com/?p=40#comment-8 [...] was a good news day at the AAAS conference, with the fisheries scientists putting on a happy face. Today was bad news day for climate change. Chris Field, a very smart guy who I worked for briefly [...] [...] was a good news day at the AAAS conference, with the fisheries scientists putting on a happy face. Today was bad news day for climate change. Chris Field, a very smart guy who I worked for briefly [...]

]]> http://heyhelen.com/2009/02/telling-fish-tales/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Jason Sat, 14 Feb 2009 18:00:09 +0000 http://heyhelen.com/?p=40#comment-3 I cover tuna in my Intro to International Relations course every single year. It's during the WTO section when I talk about free trade folks butting heads with environmental folks. That's not what my students remember, though. They only remember the story about me learning that tuna, when they're in the ocean, are actually much bigger than those little cans. "If you remember nothing else from this course," I tell them, "remember this - tuna are bigger than you." I cover tuna in my Intro to International Relations course every single year. It’s during the WTO section when I talk about free trade folks butting heads with environmental folks. That’s not what my students remember, though. They only remember the story about me learning that tuna, when they’re in the ocean, are actually much bigger than those little cans. “If you remember nothing else from this course,” I tell them, “remember this – tuna are bigger than you.”

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