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  • 22 Feb 2017
    Syrian and Iraq refugees in Mediterranean
    Timothy H. Dixon

    Can Climate Change be Blamed for the Record Number of Refugee Deaths?

    Timothy H. Dixon author of Curbing Catastrophe is a Professor of Geosciences at the University of South Florida. In his new article he considers how climate change and global warming are considerable factors in the record numbers of recent refugee deaths.

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  • 6 Feb 2017
    Thermo-Poroelasticity and Geomechanics
    A.P.S. Selvadurai

    Deep Geologic Disposal of Nuclear Waste: Inaction is a Recipe for a Crisis

    A Third Cambridge University Press title by A.P.S. Selvadurai Trained as both a civil engineer and an applied mathematician, Professor Selvadurai is an internationally recognized authority in the area of Environmental Geomechanics, which deals with the application of mathematics and mechanics to problems in the environmental geosciences. He has received several prestigious research awards including […]

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  • 1 Feb 2017
    Timothy H. Dixon

    #MuslimBan The Importance of Diversity

    Timothy H. Dixon author of Curbing Catastrophe is a Professor of Geosciences at the University of South Florida, in his newest article he discusses the need for diversity in the natural world as well as human society.

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  • 31 Jan 2017
    Curbing Catastrophe by Tim Dixon
    Timothy H. Dixon

    Curbing Catastrophe: Sugar is the New Lead

    Timothy H. Dixon author of Curbing Catastrophe is a Professor of Geosciences at the University of South Florida, in this article he discusses how the effect of disasters of global importance could have been reduced if more people considered the geologist’s mantra “Think long-term”

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  • 24 Jan 2017
    Samantha Evans

    Emma Darwin and women’s higher education

    In this blog post Samantha Evans, editor of Darwin and Women: A Selection of Letters, looks at the life of Emma Darwin and her relationship with women's higher education.

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  • 24 Jan 2017
    Samantha Evans

    Darwin and Women: the story of Amy and Elizabeth

    In this blog post Samantha Evans, editor of Darwin and Women: A Selection of Letters, looks at the lives of some of the women surrounding Darwin.

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  • 23 Jan 2017
    Eugene Morton

    Empathy with Animals: The School of Animal Communication

    Eugene Morton uses his favorite four-legged friend to explore whether or not animals can have empathy.

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  • 13 Dec 2016
    Curbing Catastrophe by Tim Dixon
    Timothy H. Dixon

    Curbing Catastrophe: Following the Money, and Dying from Coal

    Ebell to Lead EPA Transition: Following the Money, and Dying from Coal US President-Elect Trump recently picked Myron Ebell to head the transition team for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Ebell has no formal background in environmental science (he trained as an economist). He works at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a think tank that receives […]

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