Chris
Mark
The best orchestras in the world have conductors that bring the musicians together. The same applies to science with all its players and instruments. The question is: who gets the baton?
Do people trust science?
There is a growing lack of trust in society’s critical institutions. This includes science and the scientists who carry it out. This is bad news...
Population – the good news or the bad news?
More people is good news, right? More customers, taxes, opportunities and overall development of humanity. Well, there is bad news too...
Big data is here and anyone can understand numbers
Big data means we risk drowning in information with only a handful of lifeguards to save our sorry souls. Only you don’t have to be a data analyst to know how to evaluate evidence...
Are you happy with what you know?
Most of the time we know more and less than we think. A little courage to give it a go and much can be done. The question is: should we know more?
What causes extinction?
Extinction is forever and there is a lot of it going on just now. The question is why?
Why we fail to meet international biodiversity targets
Humanity has taken over the world. We like dominion. But this all-conquering species also likes to set itself targets only to fail when the accounts are in...
Protein should be the foundation of the human diet
Getting enough protein is essential for wellbeing. Plenty of high quality protein in your diet has a bunch of health advantages. It could help you stay lean, resist disease and even lift your mood. Are you getting...
How full is the food glass?
Many believe humanity continues inextricable progress. Others that we career towards a cliff of resource scarcity. Is the glass half full or half-empty? There is a way to find out...
What do you click on in the endless feed?
Blink and you miss it. That is the nature of the modern newsfeed designed not for information but for commercial clicks. What can you do when the real issues slip quickly under your thumbs?
Don’t be surprised
Humans are so good at using resources we should not be surprised at any of the numbers. We are more making machines.
What is good sustainability?
Sustainability…. good luck with that one. The ‘cake and eat it’ formal definition is near impossible given a planet full of humans. We have a slightly different take — solve FED and sustainability is possible...
CharlieWhat is good society?
Society determines FED. Human institutions drive food, ecology and diet from supply chains to governance. Society is also about people, how they think, behave and their emotional responses. Feeding everyone needs...
What is good ecology?
Ecology is the E in FED, the engine room of food production for both subsistence and intensive agriculture. Here we explain why good ecology is central to feeding everyone...
Is there a connection between diet and COVID-19?
Popeye and my mother knew that spinach would make you strong, but will it, or any other food, protect you from COVID-19? Maybe, but what food? The answer is not one food but a diet, a diet that works for you and, no...
Should you be paid to lose weight through exercise?
Should you be paid to lose weight through exercise? Well maybe, but it is going to be hard if it’s just exercise that generates the weight loss.
Obvious as the day is long
Weeds are bad, right? Well, that depends on the context and the truth may not be that obvious...
