Christopher X J. Jensen
Professor, Pratt Institute

Science Magazine outlines the big scientific issues at Rio+20

Posted 18 Jun 2012 / 0

Science “Science for Sustainable Development” The distinction between “Sustainable Development Goals” and the “Millenium Development Goals” is interesting: adding sustainability and thus environmental concerns to these goals necessitates more direct action on the part of developed nations. I am also intrigued by the idea that in order to truly make a go at technologically averting Read More

A Minor Post, Economic sustainability, Public Policy, Sustainability

New comprehensive data synthesis favors a pluralistic explanation for Eurasian mammoth extinction

Posted 18 Jun 2012 / 0

The Christian Science Monitor “What killed the woolly mammoth? A whole bunch of things, say scientists“

A Minor Post, Articles, Extinction, Fossil Data

The Australian Government blocks coal mine to protect the Great Barrier Reef

Posted 18 Jun 2012 / 0

Science “Fears of Damage to Great Barrier Reef Delay Mine“

A Minor Post, Articles, Biodiversity Loss, Habitat Destruction, Sustainable Energy

Now if you could only keep your cytosine methylated you might live forever

Posted 18 Jun 2012 / 0

ScienceNow “Aging Is Recorded in Our Genes“

A Minor Post, Articles, Genetics, Senescence

Bonobo sequence establishes that humans are equally but dissimilarly related to our chimpanzee relatives

Posted 18 Jun 2012 / 0

Nature “The bonobo genome compared with the chimpanzee and human genomes” Nature News “‘Hippie chimp’ genome sequenced” ScienceNow “Bonobos Join Chimps as Closest Human Relatives“

A Minor Post, Articles, Human Evolution, Human Uniqueness, Phylogenetics, Primates, Primatology, Web

Elinor Ostrom, pioneering social scientist and scholar of cooperation, is dead at 78

Posted 18 Jun 2012 / 0

Wikipedia “Elinor Ostrom” The Huffington Post David Sloan Wilson blog “Farewell, Lin Ostrom” CHANS-Net blog “Elinor Ostrom leaves inspiring legacy“

A Minor Post, Cooperation, Cultural Anthropology, Obituary, Political Science, Social Science

“EvoLudo” site provides tutorials on evolutionary games related to cooperation

Posted 18 Jun 2012 / 0

Evoludo

A Minor Post, Cooperation, Game Theory, Teaching Tools

“Evolution and Games” site provides tutorials on cooperation theory

Posted 18 Jun 2012 / 0

Evolution and Games: “How to quit the Price equation” “Evolution of Parochial Altruism by Multilevel Selection” “Sociality: It takes grouping and cooperation” “In and out of equilibrium: Evolution in repeated games” “Repeated games and population structure“

A Minor Post, Cooperation, Game Theory, Teaching Tools

E-print Network provides searchable access to the primary scientific literature

Posted 16 Jun 2012 / 0

E-Print Network This new database, created by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, aggregates the many pages on which scientists make their publications available as e-prints. This aggregator is searchable, making it possible to access the work of thousands of scientists for free. Add this site to the list of many other means by Read More

A Minor Post, Publication

Can “muppet theory” help explain behavioral heterogeneity in human social groups?

Posted 16 Jun 2012 / 0

National Public Radio “Explaining Muppet Theory: Are You An Ernie Or A Bert?” I have to admit that I am an “order Muppet”, but I also believe that human societies function in part because of their heterogeneity: we need the optimal mix of different behavioral types in order to realize the full potential of our Read More

A Minor Post, Radio & Podcasts, Social Diversity