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Me and Natua at the Dolphin Research Institute in the early 90′s where I studied and trained dolphins as part of a summer research program studying metacognition. These animals are beyond intelligent. They are magical. We must do whatever we can to protect them!

THE COVE is a masterful MISSON IMPOSSIBLE like documentary exposing the horrible acts that are affecting our marine mammals as well as the threat their high heavy metal levels pose to our health and say about the state of out environment. There is also a book about the making of it which was quite and undertaking. THIS IS A MUST SEE!!!!

There’s also a great new book that I can’t wait to read called Diagnosis: Mercury: Money, Politics, and Poison by Jane M. Hightomer. They have a free download of an excerpt on their site.

One morning in 2000, Dr. Jane Hightower walked into her exam room to find a patient with disturbing symptoms she couldn’t explain. The woman was nauseated, tired, and had difficulty concentrating, but a litany of tests revealed no apparent cause. She was not alone. Dr. Hightower saw numerous patients with similar, inexplicable ailments, and eventually learned that there were many more around the nation and the world. They had little in common—except a healthy appetite for certain fish.

Here are the reviews:

“Dr. Hightower passionately argues that we still need numbers and hard facts; without them consumers cannot make appropriate informed choices. Hightower has worked long and hard on this fight to make the dangers of mercury public and this important new book highlights the long and lonely quest she has fought to help get us where we are today.” — Senator Patrick Leahy

“Dr Hightower’s intriguing tale takes us from her physician’s office to sites of mercury poisoning and through the halls of Congress where public policy will determine our future exposure to this heavy metal. Throughout, she shows how important it is to understand mercury’s wide-ranging health effects and the urgent need to set stricter limits on the amount of this known neurotoxin emitted from coal-fired power plants, which contaminates the fish we eat.” —Paul R. Epstein, M.D., MPH, Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard Medical School

“Not content with discovering mercury-contaminated food as the reason for her patients’ strange symptoms, Jane Hightower follows the threads even further. Driven by curiosity, courage, and pure persistence, she enters a messy world of science and public environmental health contaminated with money and special interests. This tale is for every citizen of the world.” —Ted Schettler, science director, Science and Environmental Health Network

There is also a great printable card on the site that explains symptons and explains what fish to eat: