The Ahab Parallax: ‘Moby Dick’ and the Spill

Sunday, June 13, 2010 - 12:20 in Mathematics & Economics

A quenchless thirst for whale oil, then petroleum, pushed man ever farther and deeper. And with great hubris, great risk.

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