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“Humans have made a huge hole in nature in the last 10,000 years. [With de-extinction,] we have the ability now, and maybe the moral obligation, to repair some of the damage.” (Steward...
24 May 2013, 21:28
When investment banker and hobby mycologist Gordon Wasson embarked on his first psychedelic shroom journey with the Mixatec shaman Maria Sabina, 1947 in Huautla de Jimenez, Oaxaca, he could hardly...
15 March 2013, 12:33
Eight hundred species of dung beetles in South Africa, two thousand on the African continent, six thousand in the whole world: ponder the numbers and you might change your attitude towards poo or at...
22 February 2013, 12:35
Hawaii's Silent Invaders
"Paradise found is paradise lost" E.O.Wilson
The Hawaiian islands, many will agree, still rank among the most beautiful places on this planet: lush forests and exhilarating...
19 September 2012, 10:12
On Monday August 5, after "seven terrifying knuckle-in-teeth minutes", the Mars rover Curiosity successfully landed on Martian grounds, causing excessive shoulder patting among NASA engineers and U.S...
26 August 2012, 19:00
Minor uproar was caused earlier this year at the annual conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Vancouver when speakers Lori Marino of Emory University, Thomas...
7 August 2012, 14:11
photo taken by renown wildlife photographer and conservationalist Paul Nicklen The newest figures regarding the ongoing Arctic meltdown are out and all but reassuring. This comes hardly as a surprise...
17 July 2012, 10:46
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