Topic: John Dower

According to historian John Dower?s writing in War Without Mercy,this was even true for raging superpowers in the midst of World War II.Although the Nazis? infamous anti-Semitic acts are the most noted of racial extermination,race wars between countries ...

Race and the Pacific Theater

We are all too familiar with Pearl Harbor's destruction at the hands of the treacherous Japanese Imperial Navy; popular films and television specials have made this image hard to forget. Yet a much more misunderstood aspect of the Pacific War is ...

Shrimpy Krill May Cause Big Ocean Mixing

Schools of tiny animals and fish might be a huge and previously unnoticed contributor to the churning of ocean water, on a par with the wind and tides. For decades researchers largely ignored the idea that migrating zooplankton (small marine animals) might ...

Turbulent times means krill help climate

Krill - small shrimp-like invertebrates that feed on plankton - are capable of turning the calm nocturnal sea into a churning, frothing Jacuzzi, researchers report. Now Eric Kunze and John Dower, at the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences at the University of Victoria ...