News and Links… 1001 Citations! 10 Mar 2018 I just checked my Google Scholar profile today, and noticed something semi-momentous: "Orangutan Cultures and the Evolution of Material Culture" has been cited by 1,001 other publications. This is the primary publication…
disasters… Global Demand for Natural Resources Eliminated More Than 100,000 Bornean Orangutans — Serge Wich’s research and projects 15 Feb 2018 We just published a new paper that indicates a massive decline of orangutans on Borneo. The paper was published in Current Biology. via Global Demand for Natural Resources Eliminated More Than…
climate… Earth Day & March for Science 22 Apr 2017 I'm heading to the lovely Santa Cruz March for Science and Earth Day celebration, and wanted to share a song to celebrate that: (You can also see the lyrics to…
climate… Star Trek or Little House on the Prairie, the Red/Blue Divide, and Imagining Complexly 10 Nov 201611 Nov 2016 The US election results of 8 Nov 2016 were a bit shocking to me. David Wong at Cracked.com provided a strikingly insightful explanation of why I and my ivory tower, liberal…
primates RIP Elwyn Simons 17 Mar 2016 Elwyn L. Simons was one of the leading figures of paleoprimatology, and founder of the Duke University Primate Center. His fossil discoveries included Aegyptopithecus. He worked on primate conservation, focusing on…
climate… Gloom-and-Doom… with Happy Widgets 15 Apr 201415 Apr 2014 So we broke yet another record for CO2 at Mauna Loa, with another daily average over 400ppm. There's the "...ugh, we're in so much trouble" graphic that goes with it:…
Culture Change… Yuri and the View from Up There 12 Apr 201313 Apr 2013 Ben Gibbard said, "everything looks perfect from far away." Taken out into space, this phenomenon is known as the Overview Effect. Space-faring humans frequently report how compelling and life-changing the view…
disasters… The latest orangutan crises… 7 Aug 20128 Aug 2012 There are so many other crises unfolding that I am processing and hope to speak to soon, but meanwhile there are two bits of news on the Pongo conservation front that I…
heroes… Footprints 20 Jul 201223 Jul 2012 Three and a half million years separate the individual who left these footprints in the sands of Africa from the one who left them on the moon. A mere blink in…
Culture Change… The Shared Dream at the Top of the Stairs 13 Jul 201225 Jul 2013 Apparently (I have not yet read it), E.O. Wilson has a new book, The Social Conquest of Earth, promoting his ideas about multilevel selection. What's that? That's the idea that Natural Selection…
