Environmentalism timetable 6 Dec 20196 Dec 2019 I prepared this for my students and thought others might like it. It’s a timetable of environmental law, politics, publications of note, events and disasters since Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring in 1962. Enjoy and send corrections. [embeddoc url=”https://evolvingthoughts.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Timeline-of-Environmentalism.pdf” width=”100%” download=”all” viewer=”google”] Ecology and Biodiversity Ecology and Biodiversity Politics
Ecology and Biodiversity Ants! 23 Sep 2008 There’s a guest post at the Panda’s Thumb by myrmidon Alex Wild on the new “primitive” ant just reported. Go read it. Read More
Censorship Stupid internet filtering sucks even more 18 Oct 200818 Sep 2017 The Labor plan to interrupt Australian internet access, which I have previously excoriated, has been, as I feared, extended. Electronic Frontiers Australia reports that the government has a second, secret, list that even opting out doesn’t free you of. So the technical overhead is still there and there’s no control… Read More
Politics Vedantic creationism 28 Dec 2007 Just to demonstrate that it is not only the Christians who have their religious fundamentalists opposing science, here’s a piece that claims that the Vedas are the source of all true scientific knowledge. OK, guys, inventing zero was cool, but what have the Vedas done for us lately (apart from… Read More