Showing posts with label evolution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label evolution. Show all posts
Monday, January 23, 2023

Self-Driving Cars and Ecology, or "Where's the Running Board?"

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 NYTimes had an article on Tesla in its Sunday magazine. Its emphasis was on the problems in the self-driving software.   Tesla claims tha...
Sunday, August 22, 2021

Herbicide Resistant Weeds

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 NY Times Mag has an article on "superweeds", weeds resistant to herbicides, specifically Palmer amaranth . It's a reminder...
Sunday, June 27, 2021

When Humans Are Elephants

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 The NYTimes Magaine has a short piece on the herd of elephants in China who've gone walkabout. Apparently they just took off in searc...
Thursday, March 04, 2021

Neanderthals Weren't Dumb

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 Reading the book " Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Ar t".  I've some reservations about the level of detail and th...
Thursday, March 07, 2019

The Virtue of Lynch Mobs

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Yes, the title is bait. I'm reading Richard Wrangham's The Goodness Paradox? , about 3/4 of the way through.  I like it and the ar...
Tuesday, June 21, 2016

The Agricultural Revolution as Insurance

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I forget whether I've mentioned listening to Harari's Sapiens, as an audiobook (Mr. Bezos is taking over the world).  It's slow ...
Friday, April 22, 2016

Coitus Interruptus

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Five-thirty-eight has a post on the always interesting subject of penises (actually "wieners" in their terminology), which includ...
Monday, August 18, 2014

Pizzly Bears

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A new term to me, but not to biologists who study hybrids.  A very interesting article in the NYTimes magazine.
Saturday, November 19, 2011

Local Food, Economics, and Evolution

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Freakonomics has a post with this theme: But implicit in the argument that local farming is better for the environment than industrial ...
Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Sex Gives Farmers Troubles

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That's my takeaway from a Stu Ellis piece on waterhemp, a weed which is very difficult for farmers to control.  The reason, although I...
Tuesday, November 24, 2009

On the Mystery of the Male Anatomy

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I enjoy Joel Acehenbach's writing in the Post, and he points to a post on the Scientific American blog explaining the whys and wherefor...
Thursday, September 24, 2009

Overconfidence Helps, But Why Underconfidence

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Technology Review has a piece on why overconfidence (the idea one is an above-average driver, etc.) is evoluntarily sound. In fact, overco...
Monday, August 18, 2008

Corn

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Sometimes I can follow science, sometimes I can't. This post is interesting, as it deals with the evolution of corn, though I had a bi...