Mumbai floods: what happens when cities sacrifice ecology for development
As the storm that was hurricane Harvey deluged the areas around Houston, Texas, large parts of northern India, Nepal and…
Open soil science: technology is helping us discover the mysteries under our feet
Have you ever taken the time to stop and consider the dirt under your feet? Leonardo da Vinci said: “We…
Betting On Venetian Macao Hit The Jackpot For Sheldon Adelson, Global Gaming
Sheldon Adelson’s decision to build Venetian Macao on the barren Cotai landfill changed the game for him, Macau and the…
What would the FDP do?
THERE is a decent chance that the pro-business Free Democrats will join the next German government under Angela Merkel’s Christian…
An interview with Christian Lindner
CHRISTIAN LINDNER is the leader of the Free Democrats (FDP), the pro-business Germany party whose political revival—and possible participation in…
The long quest for the right pollen: how to really help bees
Planting bee-friendly plants seems to be the new fad in many cities around the globe. In the UK, amateur gardeners…
Will whoever controls gene editing control historical memory?
In July, Harvard scientists used a gene-editing technology first developed in 2013 to programme bacteria to do something astounding: play…
The Role of Finance in Our Structural-Demographic Crisis
It is strange to actually live in a society experiencing a structural-demographic crisis, after studying many examples of such crises…
Quantum Teleportation From Space Achieved by China!
Use the ColdFusion link, http://www.audible.com/coldfusion, to get a free audio book and 30day trial! Subscribe here: https://goo.gl/9FS8uF Video animations by…
On almost every indicator, Germany’s south is doing better than its north
GERMANY’S north and south have always been different. One half was mostly outside the Roman Empire, the other mostly inside…
Big Data Meets Cultural Evolution in Jena
Kate Kirby and I have organized a symposium on databases in Cultural Evolution for the first annual meeting of the…
Biblical Series XII: The Great Sacrifice: Abraham and Isaac
In this, the final lecture of the Summer 2017 12-part series The Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories, we encounter,…
Postmodernism: History and Diagnosis….
On August 17, I spoke with Dr. Stephen Hicks (http://www.stephenhicks.org/), professor in the philosophy department at Rockford University. Dr. Hicks…
The hidden secrets of insect poop
Insect defecation may not seem like one of the pressing scientific inquiries of our time, but in fact the faeces…