Posts Tagged ‘seafood’
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Mission Sea Turtle
Here's your mission should you choose to accept it: hold you breath for a month, eat an entire salad bar, swim a marathon a day for 2 weeks, while figuring out how to get to a place you haven't been to since you were a baby 30 years ago, without the help of signs, GPS, maps, helpful policemen or Google Earth, then at your destination mate non-stop for a few weeks, lay a few hundred eggs at night in a hole you dug with your back feet without looking, now swim back to where you came from to eat ... -
Mike Mills of R.E.M. on Nightswimmer and the Great Turtle Race
Rock music heroes R.E.M. are teaming up with Olympic swimming legend Janet Evans to give Nightswimmer, a 440kg (970 lbs) female leatherback turtle, all the support she needs to win the Great Turtle Race. Listen to R.E.M.'s Mike Mills discuss why he and his bandmates got involved in the Great Turtle Race, and what he thinks about Nightswimmer's prospects in the Race. Listen Now! -
Don’t Eat the Turtles When You Order the Shrimp
Headed to the supermarket to pick up some fish filets for dinner? Or perhaps you’re going to your favorite restaurant to dine on some scrumptious seafood this evening? How would you like your dinner choices to give your favorite turtle a leg up in the Great Turtle Race? Better yet, wouldn’t it be great if your evening menu helped turtles all over the globe (and seabirds, and fish, and marine mammals, and sharks)? A quick search on the Internet, or even a text message – if that’s more your speed – can have great results. When it comes to seafood, knowledge is ...
