by Larry Shultz | Feb 18, 2024 | Behavioral Economics, Cities, Democracy, Human and Civil rights, US West
Rebecca Solnit · In the Shadow of Silicon Valley: Losing San Francisc o (lrb.co.uk) I used to be proud of being from the San Francisco Bay Area. I thought of this place in terms of liberation and protection; we were where the environmental movement was born; we were...
by Larry Shultz | Feb 4, 2024 | Biodiversity, Democracy, Education, Human and Civil rights, Public Health, Public Policy, US West
Bundyville: The Remnant – Longreads
by Larry Shultz | Feb 3, 2024 | Behavioral Economics, Biodiversity, Biology, Biophysical Economics, Democracy, Ecology, Education, Energy, Epigenetics, Evolution, Genetics, Human and Civil rights, Neuroeconomics, Pseudoscience, Public Health, Public Policy, Science, Uncategorized, US West
A Religion of Life | Do the Math (ucsd.edu) We are a story telling species. Stories about “god s” gave selective advantage to groups, who developed greater internal altruism. It rolled the dice in their favor in out group competition and aided in in group...
by Larry Shultz | Jan 28, 2024 | Behavioral Economics, Biology, Cities, Climate, Democracy, Education, Evolution, Neuroeconomics, Pseudoscience, Science, US West
Motivated science skeptics will say, because it is sporadically colder than normal, and it still occasionally snows in some areas, that by definition there is a massive climate change hoax It is elicited and spread by the conspiracy of a durable rabble of sinners,...
by Larry Shultz | Dec 23, 2023 | Biodiversity, Botany, Ecology, Education, Physical Geography, US West
vegetation_1970_lg.jpg (3000×1984) (codex99.com) Note climate has changed since this map was produced. Also, there is a greater understanding of how Native Americans changed vegetation type by fire. LS
