Tag: opinion

people on beach watching beach volleyball

On feeling safe

by drricky July 19, 2020 No Comments

On feeling safe Recently, I saw an advertisement for a beach volleyball tournament in Texas, a state that is at the moment undergoing a major COVID-19 outbreak. The advertisement made specific mention about keeping participants safe, so I inquired about what specific measures were being taken. The reply I received included the mention that players […]

Science

How extinction shaped the Australian outback

by drricky February 15, 2018 No Comments

The story in the Atlantic. When extinction is spoken about, it’s almost exclusively in terms of land based vertebrates, usually mammals, which form a tiny portion of the biodiversity of the planet. And even that attention is heavily skewed towards “charismatic megafauna” – animals that are cute and big enough to be visible. But it’s […]

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