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  • 13 Oct 2020
    Corinna Hawkes

    To solve problems we must connect systems

    It’s been hard to make sense of COVID-19. At least, I have found it hard. So many deaths. So many changes to everyday life. So much political strangeness. So much uncertainty about the future. This blog post was originally posted on “The Better Food Journey” and is cross-posted with permission. The blog builds on the […]

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  • 4 Sep 2020
    David Costantini

    A Bird Stuck in the Sky

    Co-author of The Kestrel, David Costantini, discusses why the Kestrel is so important to him and his inspiration behind co-writing a book all about them.

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  • 31 Aug 2020
    Wallace Arthur

    Are we alone in the Universe?

    Wallace Arthur, author of The Biological Universe, sheds some light on one of humanity's most enduring questions.

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  • 26 Aug 2020
    Martin Hensher

    COVID-19 and the economics of information: uncomfortable lessons for sustainability?

    COVID-19 has confirmed some long-understood yet long-ignored truths about the economics of information, and has also highlighted deeply disturbing fractures in today’s information ecology COVID-19 has delivered an extraordinary shock to humanity. Advocates and researchers working on sustainability have rightly seized on the similarly extraordinary opportunity that the (eventual) recovery from this pandemic offers: to […]

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  • 21 Aug 2020
    Wallace Arthur

    From 42 to 4200: Life in the Universe, but not Everything?

    The rapidly-increasing number of known planets has just passed the 4200 mark, according to NASA. The upshot of this is that we may now have enough planets to detect extraterrestrial life, even if we never discovered any more planets, which is most unlikely given that there are over 5000 additional ‘candidate planets’ awaiting confirmation. Discovering […]

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  • 18 Aug 2020
    Kostas Kampourakis, Tobias Uller

    Should biologists care at all about philosophy of science?

    Is philosophy of science of any use to biologists? A well-known response is that philosophy of science is as helpful to science, as ornithology is to birds. Whether or not it was Richard Feynman who actually said this does not affect the fact that many biologists that we have met, especially those older than us, […]

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  • 30 Jul 2020
    Lockdown Lectures

    Join us for Lockdown Lectures: a Series of Author Q&As on Remote Teaching

    We asked the authors of some of our most popular textbooks to take part in a series of Facebook Live webinars about teaching remotely.

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  • 14 Jul 2020
    Björn-Ola Linnér

    Will the Corona pandemic be the societal disruptor we’ve been waiting for?

    The Corona pandemic and the ensuing recovery packages seem poised to bring about disruptions that will define world politics over the coming decades. Ultimately, the disruptions may trigger transformations of the world’s societies as we know them – for better, for worse. A societal disruptor is an occurrence that interrupts a system or a process […]

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