by Larry Shultz | Feb 3, 2024 | Behavioral Economics, Biodiversity, Biology, Biophysical Economics, Democracy, Ecology, Education, Energy, Epigenetics, Evolution, Genetics, Human and Civil rights, Neuroeconomics, Pseudoscience, Public Health, Public Policy, Science, Uncategorized, US West
A Religion of Life | Do the Math (ucsd.edu) We are a story telling species. Stories about “god s” gave selective advantage to groups, who developed greater internal altruism. It rolled the dice in their favor in out group competition and aided in in group...
by Larry Shultz | Jan 28, 2024 | Behavioral Economics, Biology, Cities, Climate, Democracy, Education, Evolution, Neuroeconomics, Pseudoscience, Science, US West
Motivated science skeptics will say, because it is sporadically colder than normal, and it still occasionally snows in some areas, that by definition there is a massive climate change hoax It is elicited and spread by the conspiracy of a durable rabble of sinners,...
by Larry Shultz | Jan 23, 2024 | Democracy, Epigenetics, Evolution
How the brain responds to reward is linked to socioeconomic background (medicalxpress.com)
by Larry Shultz | Jan 20, 2024 | Biology, Biophysical Economics, Cities, Climate, Democracy, Ecology, Education, Energy, Evolution, Public Health, Scale, Science
Mental Health. Coping with the future: notes from Jackson & Jensen’s “An Inconvenient Apocalypse” | Peak Everything, Overshoot, & Collapse (energyskeptic.com)
by Larry Shultz | Jan 20, 2024 | Biodiversity, Biophysical Economics, Democracy, Ecology, Education, Energy, Science
Book review: Atomic Days. The Untold Story of the Most Toxic Place in America | Peak Everything, Overshoot, & Collapse (energyskeptic.com) Will Congress ever create a new independent agency to store nuclear waste permanently? | Peak Everything, Overshoot, &...
by Larry Shultz | Jan 19, 2024 | Biodiversity, Biophysical Economics, Botany, Ethnobotany, Physical Geography
The global distribution of plants used by humans (science.org)
