Stuart Firestein was the guest speaker at this month’s Secret Science Club. His area of research is neuroscience and the olfactory system, but at this talk he discussed his ideas on ignorance and how it is important for driving scientific research. Ignorance, according to Firestein, is what drives science because discoveries do not happen asRead More
Tag: Nature
The chickens in the yard go cluck cluck cluck
This NYT article talks about the trend that is becoming more popular now of keeping chickens in backyards across the nation, such as Chicago, Brooklyn, and the rural West. From the article, the general sense is that most of the people who recently started raising chickens in their backyards are doing it because of theRead More
I wanna be a street farmer
Will Allen is an urban farmer featured in this NYT article. He does interesting work in greenhouses to feed 10,000 local people. It is so exciting to see something great happening where it is needed most. Urban centers, especially inner city areas, often lack access to fresh produce. This has enormous implications for health because,Read More
All We See is $s and Dinner
(This piece was written Fall 2007.) Our perception of Nature has everything to do with the way that we live our lives. People who trivialize the importance of nature to their daily lives take for granted what Nature has given and allowed us to accomplish. It may seem that we may rely on Nature’s resourcesRead More