The sixth (human-caused) mass extinction will be “fundamentally different” from the previous five, reports the Guardian: Periodically, in the vast spans of time that have proceeded us, our planet’s living beings have…
Mass extinction
In case you hadn’t noticed, there’s a mass extinction going on. The Telegraph reports on Stanford University’s finding that the sixth mass extinction in Earth’s history is underway: Earth has entered its…
John Feffer writes at Foreign Policy in Focus: Video games usually provide you with multiple lives. If you step on a landmine or get hit by an assassin, you get another chance….
Cheery stuff from the Washington Post’s Wonkblog. Must be the snowpocalypse that’s supposed to hit D.C. tomorrow… There have been five mass extinction events in Earth’s history. In the worst one, 250 million years ago,…
Annalee Newitz writes at the Daily Beast/Newsweek: Over the past four years, bee colonies have undergone a disturbing transformation. As helpless beekeepers looked on, the machinelike efficiency of these communal insects devolved…