Posted on May 3, 2022 | Comments Off on Mariculture: How The Ocean Can Be Sustainably Cultivated To Provide Food For Developing Countries
One of the odder disconnects in western culture is people who claim to care about the environment but will only eat fish that is caught in unsustainable ways - in the wild. I suppose I get the appeal of knowing laborers risked their lives for your food and that farmers in $300,000 tractors don't have the same cachet.(1) Yet those same people are horrified at the thought of hunting game like...
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Posted on May 1, 2022 | Comments Off on Some Parts Of Borneo Have Landscape Similar To The Pliocene Epoch, 5.3 Million Years Ago
Conservation in modern times is a misused term that trial lawyers often invoke to win lawsuits against companies before progress can commence but Brunei on the island of Borneo, which is about the size of the state of Delaware, has a great reason for all countries of the world to preserve it. The current landscape is similar to what was present during the Pliocene Epoch, 5.3 to 2.6 million...
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Posted on Jan 11, 2022 | Comments Off on Politicizing Aphid Poop
We all know there is no Beepocalypse by now, right? Seeing it referenced in sit-coms from the 2010s is as anachronistic as watching "Soylent Green" from the 1970s and seeing them lament that they didn't listen to scientists and make the hole in the ozone layer larger. Sure, Washington Post readers probably still believe bees are dying, just like their contributors think "Soylent Green" got...
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Posted on Jan 11, 2022 | Comments Off on Politicizing Aphid Poop
We all know there is no Beepocalypse by now, right? Seeing it referenced in sit-coms from the 2010s is as anachronistic as watching "Soylent Green" from the 1970s and seeing them lament that they didn't listen to scientists and make the hole in the ozone layer larger. Sure, Washington Post readers probably still believe bees are dying, just like their contributors think "Soylent Green" got...
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Posted on Dec 1, 2021 | Comments Off on A Hunter Shot A Buck, Which Turned Out To Be A Doe With Antlers. Here’s How
In 2021, there remains some confusion about the distinction between biological sex and gender. The fossil record only shows males and females, it does not show how those people, or even precursors of modern humans, felt about themselves. And fossil records only show what can actually be fossilized. Which is often just skeletal.Nature can be more complex than that.I almost always hunt in...
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Posted on Jun 23, 2021 | Comments Off on Beekeeper Survey Shows 6% Higher Losses Last Year Than The 39% Average
Honeybees die each year in great quantities and some years are worse than others. Since they are a big business, primarily as roving pollinators for crops that need them at a certain time (like almonds(1) there is always a concern about how to keep losses low.Causes of death were once a moving target. For as long as records of bees have been kept, there have been reports of extraordinary...
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