“Every two weeks, the world loses a language. Out of approximately 7,000 languages spoken on earth today, at least half will have fallen silent by the end…
Month: June 2019
Scotland’s Green Energy makes Enough Electricity 1st Quarter to power 88% of Households
What made humans ‘the fat primate’? Changes in DNA packaging curbed our body’s ability to turn ‘bad’ fat into ‘good’ fat
How did humans get to be so much fatter than our closest primate relatives, despite sharing 99% of the same DNA? A new study suggests that part of the answer may have to do with an ancient molecular shift in how DNA is packaged inside fat cells, which curbed our body’s ability to turn ‘bad’ white fat into ‘good’ brown fat.
Who Can Afford a Green New Deal? We Can!
Let’s drop the false narrative of “unaffordability.”by Frances Moore Lappé
Source: Who Can Afford a Green New Deal? We Can! | Common Dreams Views
Climate change helped elephants evolve larger brains
Ancestral elephants had to adapt or go extinct
Source: Climate change helped elephants evolve larger brains — Quartz Africa
Just 15 Minutes on Climate Change in First 2 Democratic Debates
The climate crisis poses an existential threat to humanity, but from the first two Democratic debates, you’d never know it.
Source: Just 15 Minutes on Climate Change in First 2 Democratic Debates
Paley’s Ghost speaks out: the problem of [neo-]darwinist evolutionary incrementalism
One of the common weak arguments against the design inference on functionally specific, complex organisation and/or associated information (FSCO/I, a functional form of specified complexity) is the idea that body-plan level macro-evolution is “simply” the accumulation of lots and lots of micro-evolu
Where will evolution take us in the Fourth Industrial Revolution? | World Economic Forum
The study of evolution allows us to reconstruct the past and to understand how life evolved from simple to complex organisms. Evolutionary reasoning can help us make sense of the biggest questions in science, from the origin of the universe to the inner workings of the human brain.
Source: Where will evolution take us in the Fourth Industrial Revolution? | World Economic Forum
How to produce natural gas while storing carbon dioxide — ScienceDaily
New research shows that injecting air and carbon dioxide into methane ice deposits buried beneath the Gulf of Mexico could unlock vast natural gas energy resources while helping fight climate change by trapping the carbon dioxide underground.
Source: How to produce natural gas while storing carbon dioxide — ScienceDaily