Read any good books lately?

[Clueless Morgan]

I'm currently reading War of the Whales by Josh Horwitz; it's about the Navy sonar testing that was causing whales to beach back around 2000. It's sort of the true story behind this piece of crap:



Or at least Animal Planet wove an interesting (i.e. interestingly full of bullshit) story about mermaids into this true story about the Navy and whale beachings, and this mysterious(ly stupid) thing called the bloop. Until I started this book I thought it was all bogus, but it turns out the Navy thing and the whale thing are actually true... But the aquatic ape part is not. :p

So far it's been extremely interesting because it talks about underwater acoustics and how sound propogates through the ocean, the bioacoustics of whales, the eco-lawyers who got involved in pushing the Navy sonar testing out of marine sanctuaries, etc. It's pretty compelling because it's written like a novel, but all of the "characters" are actual people IRL.

I'm making sure I go to bed about an hour before sleepy time so I can get in some good reading on it.