How many plant and animal species go extinct each year? Some years ago Greenpeace claimed 50,000 -100,000 species each year. In the comment thread of an earlier blog post Lamna nasus suggested a figure of 90 species of mammal over the past five … [Read more...] about Science and Public Policy by Aynsley Kellow: Part 2, Virtual Extinctions in Virtual Ecosystems
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Why I am a Dynamist
In 1960 famous Austrian economist and political philosopher Friedrich Hayek wrote an essay entitled ‘Why I Am Not a Conservative’ explaining that a fundamental trait of the conservative attitude is a fear of change while the liberal position is based … [Read more...] about Why I am a Dynamist
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD is a critical thinker with expertise in the scientific method.
