Extinction Vortex of DOOM
How is it that I’ve never heard this cool phrase before? Well not so cool for the species it applies to but still, someone was having a good brain day when that one was coined. The idea of an...
View ArticleIntelligent Design Flaws: The Evidence for Natural Selection in Our DNA
Here in New Zealand the debate between religion and evolution is a muted affair, while news on the topic regularly makes headlines in the US, here it goes almost beneath notice. That is not to say the...
View ArticleRavens and Empathy: The Role of Bystanders After Conflict
At the same time as we were learning that Vegetarians and Vegans might be more empathic than Omnivores we were also discovering the nature of empathy in Ravens. Published in PLoS One recently was a...
View ArticleThe Risky Business of Hunger
We like to think of ourselves as rational actors when it comes to making decisions, we take in information, process it and choose the path that we think will lead to a desirable outcome (if we aren’t...
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