Tierra del Fuego, at the southern tip of the Americas, is brimming with an incredible menagerie of life. This is the plan to keep it that way.
In August 2011, Iain and George Wittemyer (who serves as chair of Save the Elephants’ Scientific Board) published a commentary inNaturewarning that “ivory demand and prices have reached a point at which poachers are willing to target well-protected, closely monitored populations” like Samburu,...
This shift pre to post-copulation in when mates are selected de-emphasizes the importance of choosing who to mate with and instead emphasizes the importance of mating with multiple males to access genetic diversity in the sperm gene pool. A consequence is that we should see less evidence of ...
Despite pervasive challenges to regulate UPF consumption in the face of contemporary corporate power dynamics, a small precedent of success has been set by a handful of countries in the adoption of UPF regulatory policies. Most of these countries are in Latin America, where UPF consumption has gro...
in the intellectual field alone there are many kinds of excellence. There is the kind of intellectual activity that leads to a new theory, and the kind that leads to a new machine. There is the mind that finds its most effective expression in teaching and the mind that is most at home ...
In her Jacksonville University lecture, Barrett similarly deployed language suggesting an adversarial stance toward trans issues by misgendering transgender women, calling them “physiological males.” This is one statement, but to many advocates, her words seem ominous for the nascent transgender ...
the senate weights provided by CILS4EU were used, which correct both for wave nonresponse and give an equal weight to each country in our models (as if the sample in each country was 500 individuals) (for more detailed information, see CILS4EU,2016b). Thus, once weighted, the data shoul...
In order to create new opportunities for students and raise test scores, Principal Dev Patel and other faculty members have decided to separate the boys and girls at their high school. Although many students oppose the decision, the principal has made the right choice. After observing a school...
“Tell me,” she asks Elliott. “How many of the combatants, in Syria, used drones?” Collyer is asking if Elliott is really going to force her to waste time arguing who the hell else, in Syria, shoots Hellfire missiles at people out of drones. ...
It will demolish the sordid cottage industry of "hate speech watchers," like the Southern Poverty Law Center, whose fundraising is directly proportional to how many honorable people they can defame as "haters" and who compile dubious blacklists, which are then used as guidance by Facebook...