A Thinking Reed

"Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed" – Blaise Pascal

Science

  • Where the wild things are

    I don’t know what I think of the idea, but this is the most interesting thing I’ve read in a while. (In other words, it’s not about the election.) “Re-wilding,” in the words of one of the scientists interviewed, is the “super-colliding superconducting experiment of ecology.” Read more

  • Needed: alternatives to animal testing

    The Post reports that a panel set up by the federal government to explore alternatives to animal testing has been woefully slow in approving alternative methods, even though the EU has approved something like 34 of them. Animal advocates, scientists, and even industry are impatient with the lack of progress, which they attribute, in part, Read more

  • Nature is awesome

    Three words: giant prehistoric scorpion. Read more