Matt Ridley on Peak Farmland

…of cropland use, gazing at a wide expanse of land that will be spared for Nature.” If not for biofuels, say scientists, farmland usage would already be declining. Jesse Ausubel…

Encyclopedia of Life in the news

  IT World and Boingboing run stories about progress of the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL). Encyclopedia of Life: Better than Wikipedia! What leeches and ligers can teach you about evolution…

Finish for trains and start for maglevs?

…to emerge. Help sometimes comes from unexpected places. Sailing ships had trouble getting through the Suez canal and thus lost a crucial market. What might be the Suez canal for…

Diffusion of Social Phenomena

…signals from the environment slow the growth, producing the S-shaped curve. For a single growth process, a single sigmoidal curve is often a useful model.  In niches or markets in which…

Annual meeting of Quiet Ocean strategy group

The USA Strategy Group for the International Quiet Ocean Experiment held its 4th annual meeting 28-30 August at the Marine Policy Center of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, where Jesse…

Mark Stoeckle mitochondria paper in Human Evolution

world are no greater than differences between pigeons https://uk.news.yahoo.com/genetic-differences-between-people-across-184451249.html?guccounter=2 Europa Press, newswire, Spain La diferencia genética entre humanos, en el promedio de las especies https://www.europapress.es/ciencia/laboratorio/noticia-diferencia-genetica-humanos-promedio-especies-20180521172546.html Agencia EFE, Spain Demostrado, no…