Wednesday, August 29, 2018

Crime is Killing the Environment

Hopefully you never see that yellow crime scene tape marking off a violent crime or murder, but as crimes go up so do thousands of yards of this plastic tape. And when the tape gets cut down for whatever reason, is usually left blowing down the street. It doesn’t seem especially dangerous—a little flimsy yellow ribbon that will disintegrate as it tatters in the sunlight....

Friday, August 3, 2018

Humans will evolve beyond recognized speech by 2050

Animals constantly adapt to changing environments. When we look at how evolution has taken us from tadpoles to Texters and Tweeters, it can be overwhelming. Look at traits one at a time and how they appear and disappear, birds of the same species have evolved on one island with long beaks to suck nectar of flowering plants and on the neighboring island short the same birds...