What rove beetles can tell us about the predictability of life
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How to solve biology’s chicken-or-egg dilemma
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Making a Shazam for conservationists
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This is a brief response to Tim Thornton’s recent article for JAPE (94, Summer 2024/2025), ‘Beyond green growth, degrowth, post-growth and growth agnosticism’. I am not intending to go into the arguments he uses in detail but instead to explain the green growth and degrowth positions as I see them. I find his account of it confusing and somewhat misleading — and feel there is a point in setting the record straight.
The author on losing his home to wildfire, finding strength in solitude, and his new book Aflame
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The astrophysicist’s synthesized voice conveyed a self
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Wetlands in film are overwhelmingly associated with discomfort, misery, and death
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The idea that mysterious stuff speeds up the acceleration of the universe could be a big mistake
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The impact of famine may be written in the bodies of future generations
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As a new year begins and the blog starts fresh in 2025, we wanted to take a moment to reflect on the highlights of the blog in 2024. In case you missed any of our posts the first time round, the five most viewed posts of last year were: We hope you enjoyed the blog … Continue reading Our top five posts of 2024