A 1.8 million year old skull indicates there may have been just one human species on Earth at that time | IFLScience

Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minute A 1.8 million year old skull indicates there may have been just one human species on Earth at that time | IFLScience. For some time now, I’ve been wondering if it isn’t time to re-examine how we decide something is … Continue reading

Where I’ve Been Online (Apr 5, 2014)

Approximate Reading Time: 3 minutes Gamifying the classroom is a bad idea | Al Jazeera America “ I was part of a generation of children who learned about dysentery through a video game. Every week, I sat in front of a bay of Apple II … Continue reading

Are Rabbits the New Super Meat? – Modern Farmer

Approximate Reading Time: 2 minutes Nice article. The one thing I would disagree with though is: The fact that rabbits require a gentler environment than a factory farm can offer means the market largely relies on family-run operations like his own. “Mother Nature designed them … Continue reading

Where I’ve been online (to end March 2013)

Approximate Reading Time: 3 minutes This is a record of places I have bookmarked. (I also post them to Diigo, but since I don’t like to leave stuff only in the cloud, I am also keeping a copy here. This View of Life: Primatologist Frans … Continue reading

New Breed of Hunter Shoots, Eats and Writes – NYTimes.com

Approximate Reading Time: 3 minutes Warning: this post may not be for everyone. It talks about hunting, and about raising animals for meat. The NYT article in the link is about a book written by the so-called “new breed” of hunter. Nice try, but I … Continue reading

Are Household Bugs A Risk To Human Health?

Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minute Are Household Bugs A Risk To Human Health?. Date: 26 Jan 2011 – 4:00 PST Well, DUH! Of COURSE they are! Do they really not think that feeding antibiotics to farm animals as if they were regular feed is going … Continue reading