Showing posts with label evolution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label evolution. Show all posts
Saturday, April 18, 2020

The Plague, the Spanish Flu, and the Coronavirus: Equivalence and Progress in Infectious Diseases

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History forgotten is history to be repeated, for evolution occurs over such vast oceans of time that for our purposes, human biological n...
Friday, April 5, 2019

Should Health Care Be a Right?

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In the Spring of 2019, President Trump promised that a Republican alternative to "Obamacare" would soon be unveiled; the majority...
Friday, February 15, 2019

Western Banks Lending to Asia's Expanding Middle Class: Profit vs. Planet

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In April 2013, debt levels in Asia were reaching record levels as international lenders were extending short-term loans to a growing midd...
Wednesday, January 23, 2019

Faster, Higher, Bigger: A Rationale for Regulation

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The death of a Georgian luge athlete on the opening day of the 2010 Winter Olympics occurred amid concerns about the speed of the record-se...
Monday, December 31, 2018

Nissan's CEO Caught in the Crosshairs of Business and Society in Japan

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Ordinarily, courses that include  business & society (with business & government, and business ethics material also included as if ...
Tuesday, December 11, 2018

Oceans Arising on Edifices of Arrogance

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A study published in late November 2012 in the journal Science estimates that the melting of ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland had...
Monday, January 4, 2016

Increasing Complexity and More Energy in the Context of Evolutionary Biology

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In “the story of increasing complexity and then decreasing complexity,” we find complexity in “privileged localities” where “intense loca...
Friday, June 5, 2015

The Age of Adaline: Death as No Longer Inevitable

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In The Age of Adaline (2015), the age-old “fountain of youth” leitmotif springs forth yet again. In this incarnation, Adaline is forced to...
Thursday, January 8, 2015

Divestment as a Carbon-Reduction Strategy

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As gas prices were dropping during the fall of 2014 throughout the U.S., sales of SUVs were picking up. That such drivers might find themse...
Wednesday, October 15, 2014

The Age of Humans: Snuffing Our Species Out

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With California entering its fourth year of severe drought and the planet having its warmest August and September since records began in 18...
Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Humanity Getting Ahead of Itself: A Mass-Extinction Event Already Underway

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Around 252 million years ago, the “Great Dying” took out 90% of the world’s species. About 66 million years ago, a meteor caused the extinc...
Sunday, March 9, 2014

Meteorology vs. Astronomy: Is It Spring Yet?

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Advancing clocks an hour ahead to Daylight Savings Time conveniently announces itself as the easy-to-remember Spring Forward . Advancing de...
Thursday, November 7, 2013

Blockbuster Dissolves While Netflix Prospers: Evolutionary, Psychological, and Religious Explanations

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In November 2013, the world learned that Blockbuster would be closing its remaining 300 video stores and even its DVD/VHS-by-mail ser...
Friday, November 1, 2013

A Diet Dug Out of Anthropology

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The Big Bang took place 13.7 billion years ago. Earth formed about 4.54 billion years ago out of “stardust.” So our planet is not nearly ...
Wednesday, October 2, 2013

The U.S. Government Shutdown: A Future of Clogged Consolidation?

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Stalemate. A government shutdown. Well, not actually completely shut down, but significantly enough for many people to suffer as a...
Friday, September 27, 2013

Are Science and Human Nature at Odds in Climate Change?

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“Climate change is the greatest challenge of our time,” says Thomas F. Stocker, co-chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Chang...