Tag: Rafe Sagarin
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April 4, 2012
How Plants and Animals Can Prepare Us for the Next Big Disaster
We ought to look to nature—and its 3.5 billion years of adaptations for survival—for how to better protect ourselves from terrorist attacks, natural disasters and infectious disease.
August 8, 2012
Interdisciplinary Science in the Anthropocene
my advice to those idealistic students after my own tortured career in interdisciplinary environmental science.
April 25, 2013
Biology And The Border
To understand why the border will never be secure, and why it doesn’t matter anyway, we have to turn to other voices.
August 19, 2013
Stable Vices Revisited: SeaWorld And Early Human World
Our apparent dominance over evolutionary forces as an absolute victory seems as out of touch as a dancing killer whale in a swimming pool. At the very least, we should stop pretending that living the way we do now is ‘normal’ for humans, just as we are starting to realize that there’s nothing normal about an orca living among strangers in a pool and forced to do ridiculous tricks in front of thousands of screaming kids to get food.
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