Yes, you can now believe that fairy circles live…
Posted 28 Jun 2012 / 0Science Now “Mysterious Fairy Circles Are ‘Alive’“
A Minor PostLarry Arnhart on Singer, Bowles, and Gintis and Darwinian libertarianism
Posted 28 Jun 2012 / 0Darwinian Conservatism “Does Strong Reciprocity Support a Darwinian Left?” This is a really interesting comparison of the “utopian” and “realist” versions of leftist politics, and of the struggle of thinkers like Singer. What I think needs to be kept in mind is that all these folks are doing more than just trying to produce science Read More
A Minor Post, Cooperation, Evolutionary Modeling, Punishment, Reciprocity, Social NormsDavid Sloan Wilson on narratives of regulation
Posted 28 Jun 2012 / 0Huffington Post David Sloan Wilson blog “The Nature of Regulation I: Breaking Out of Our Narrative Prisons“
A Minor PostA victory for collective action and national cooperation
Posted 28 Jun 2012 / 0New York Times “Supreme Court Health Care Decision” U.S. Supreme Court “NATIONAL FEDERATION OF INDEPENDENT BUSINESS ET AL. v. SEBELIUS, SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, ET AL.“
A Minor Post, Cooperation, Law, Political ScienceAustralopithecus sediba was a C3 muncher (so say the teeth)
Posted 27 Jun 2012 / 0Nature “The diet of Australopithecus sediba“
A Minor Post, Homo species, Human EvolutionHigh tech ad hoc fixes face off against good old-fashioned prevention in the Baltic Sea
Posted 27 Jun 2012 / 0Nature Comment “Save the Baltic Sea“
A Minor Post, Biomes, Conservation BiologyLeaving with empty hands, should Rio+20 participants nonetheless leave with a sense of optimism?
Posted 27 Jun 2012 / 0Nature Editorial “A First Step“
A Minor Post, Conservation Biology, Public Policy, SustainabilityAntibiotic overuse: a porcine tragedy of the commons
Posted 27 Jun 2012 / 0Nature Editorial “Pig out“
A Minor Post, CooperationIdentifying the genes that gave dolphins their big brains
Posted 27 Jun 2012 / 0Science Now “Building a Bigger Dolphin Brain“
A Minor Post, Brain size, Cetaceans, Cognitive Ability, Genetics, NeuroscienceThe ecological impacts of the BP-Deepwater Horizon oil spill quantified
Posted 27 Jun 2012 / 0Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences “Degradation and resilience in Louisiana salt marshes after the BP–Deepwater Horizon oil spill” Kudos to PNAS for making this important paper open access. There is some depressing data here, as oil-slicked marshes with complete die-off of grasses were quickly eroded. But for those that were not eroded, the Read More
A Minor Post, Anthropogenic Change, Biodiversity Loss, Bogs & Wetlands, Conservation Biology, Habitat Destruction