The world’s first glow-in-the-dark frog found in Argentina
Scientists in Argentina have discovered a frog that glows in moonlight and at twilight. Fluorescence in terrestrial environments had previously…
2017 Maps of Meaning 09: Patterns of Symbolic Representation
In this lecture, I discuss the manner in which the fundamental symbolic archetypes (particularly those dealing with the Wise King…
Silver Heritage Casino Hotel In Nepal Has A Mountain To Climb
Now scheduled to open in August, Silver Heritage Group’s Tiger Palace Bhairahawa will be the first casino resort built especially…
Cambodia Casino Deal He Didn’t Want Returns Malaysia’s Chen To Billionaire Ranks
Billionaire Chen Lip Keong has expanded NagaWorld in Phnom Penh from a barge to a 700 room hotel – shown…
Listen, Liberal – Part I
Ironically, it used to be the crazy fringe on the Right that were the breeding grounds for conspiracy theories (“birthers”,…
The Changing Landscape of Scientific Publishing
A senior colleague from my ecology days wrote to me with a request for a PDF reprint of an article…
Latin American presidents love Twitter – and that’s not a good sign
Leer en español. The Conversation Global’s series, Politics in the Age of Social Media, examines how governments around the world…
Cultural Evolution Knew What Statistics Didn’t: That Hillary Would Lose
As is well known, all major forecasters confidently predicted that Hillary Clinton would win the presidential elections of 2016. On…
Tesla Energy is Getting Serious – A Battery powered World?
Will have to rewrite this, got hacked…
More Reasons to Eat Fat
In a recent blog post P. D. Mangan discusses the implications of the metabolic theory of cancer and the ideas…
Life on Earth is used to gravity – so what happens to our cells and tissues in space?
There’s one force whose effects are so deeply entrenched in our everyday lives that we probably don’t think much about…
Bahamas’ Beleaguered Baha Mar Casino Resort To Open With Chinese Characteristics
More than a decade in the making, $3.5 billion Baha Mar is due to open as a Caribbean resort with…
As Macau Casino Revenue Soars, Some Analysts Take A Reality Check
Macau shone brightly over the Chinese New Year holiday and throughout February, with its highest monthly gaming revenue in two…