Here’s a little something written 18 years ago:

The [International Whaling Commission] would be required ... to conserve whales, but could sell annual quotas to the highest bidders. The income would go to running the [IWC], and so the price might be very high, but this would be a realistic value...

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Last week: 95.4 This week: 94.7¹

I first came across the Shangri-La diet on the Freakonomics blog back in September 2005. I remember thinking that it sounded plausible, interesting and would probably be quite popular. It also reminded me of a British Sugar Corporation advert, way back when, tha...

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If, like me, you have been left a little confused by the explosion in studies of human migration based on inheritance of the Y chromosome, be prepared to be sorted out. The Bradshaw Foundation has a wonderful animated map that shows the various migration routes, their timing, and what was happenin...

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I don’t know, this just tickled me: How to write good. Hope it does you.

Over on Pharyngula, PZ Myers still has no time for the coinage “bright”. And I’ve got to say, I’m still with him on this one. I think it is a daft term, for all the reasons brought up in the interminable comments to his post. I am an atheist. I may be a bright atheist -- that’s not for me to say...

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