OK, officially back from the holidaze now. The next issue of MP should be coming out quite soon, so look out for that. In the mean time let’s get back to blogging.
Journalist Johann Hari has a thought-provoking piece over at Slate. Ostensibly it’s a review of a recent book of American environmental writing edited by [...]
As you may have noticed, I’ve been a bit absentee the past two weeks. Nothing earth shattering, I was just preparing for a research talk I gave today for the weekly Brown Bag session here at Indiana. No earth shattering results yet, but they are definitely unexpected. The full explanation is long and technical, so [...]
The insistence by some biologists that we must halt economic growth in order to save the environment has bothered me for some time, but I was prompted to write about it now because yet another, albeit minor, group has adopted a policy statement on the issue. That a naturalist group has agreed to this nonsense [...]
From climate change to species extinctions, ecology has joined economics among the ranks of dismal sciences, and evolution may not be far behind. A short piece in this week’s edition of Science summarizes numerous studies across many species demonstrating the sinister impacts of fishing, and what it means for optimal management. It has [...]
As I don’t have time tonight to finish an entire entry, let me briefly introduce myself to the reader and give her a flavor for what I will be writing about on the MP Blog. Currently I am a first-year graduate student at Indiana University studying evolutionary biology. For MP, I am working [...]
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