American journalist and activist, Birth: 10-4-1951
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Any time I get to blow bubbles pretty much lights me up.
David Helvarg
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We tend to think of America's days of frontier exploration as being behind us, but that's because we tend not to think of the other 71% of our blue planet.
David Helvarg
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Remember that sign they hung up in an EPA office during the Reagan administration, "No good deed goes unpunished"? Under George Bush, no good science goes unpunished.
David Helvarg
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Bruce Parker's The Power of the Sea is an engaging and essential history of science. It’s also a terrific account of survival on our wild blue planet.