Metanexus Editors – Page 244

Americans, Like Ancient Humans, Prefer Taller Leaders
By the Editor on October 19, 2011
“In evolutionary times, when people traveled in small groups and people competed for resources, the argument was that, when...
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What to Expect When You’re Expanding
By the Editor on October 18, 2011
The world population will hit 7 billion on Halloween this year, according to a guesstimate from the United Nations....
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An Epoch Debate
By the Editor on October 18, 2011
An influential group of geologists, ecologists, and biologists argue that humans have so changed the planet that it is...
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History and the Decline of Human Violence
By the Editor on October 18, 2011
Steven Pinker’s latest work is called The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, and it combines...
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Researcher Offers Ideas to Feed the World Without Ruining the Planet
By the Editor on October 18, 2011
Transform the global food system in the next 40 years by using crops to feed people instead of fattening...
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Was the Universe Born Whirling?
By the Editor on October 18, 2011
If the idea stands up, it is a bombshell. The universe is not the same wherever you look; it...
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E.O. Wilson’s Theory of Everything
By the Editor on October 18, 2011
At 82, the famed biologist E.O. Wilson arrived in Mozambique last summer with a modest agenda—save a ravaged park;...
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What Should Be the Top Environmental Priority for the Next 40 Years?
By the Editor on October 17, 2011
Experts speakers argue their cases.
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What Will Happen to Us?
By the Editor on October 17, 2011
Serious futurologists are not a large group yet. “It’s a fairly new area of inquiry,” says Nick Bostrom, an...
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Agriculture’s Role in Our Societies Not So Simple
By the Editor on October 17, 2011
The tidy picture of seemingly inevitable social “progress” following the appearance of domesticated plants is challenged by a study...
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