Skinner’s daughter rejects rumors

I happened upon an article that I hope many people will read. In it Deborah Skinner, daughter of B. F. and Yvonne (Eve) Skinner, rebuts many untruths about her up-bringing. Some folks would have us believe that Ms. Skinner

• Was raised in an experimental laboratory chamber,
• Went crazy,
• Sued her father, and
• Committed suicide.

Apparently fully alive, unless she’s expressing herself through some mystical means (teehee), Ms. Skinner provides a 1st-person refutation of these rumors. So, next time someone trots out one of these (or some other) untruths, point ‘em to the article in the UK Guardian: “I was not a lab rat.”

A Google search for the terms “skinner box baby daughter” (sans quotes of course) returns a list of ~261K entries, some of which perpetuate the myths and some of which rebut them.

I and the Bird

That’s the title of a recurring collection of links about birds and birding, not a typo, grammaro, or thoughto.

As a (rank) amateur birder, I’m regularly pleased to be able to find new (to me) resources about birding. I just learned about I and the Bird, one of those carnivals that’s become popular in the blogsphere. It’s worth perusing…just another opportunity for me to waste an hour or so. This week’s edition, which is the 44th, is hosted by The Greenbelt