Browsing Tag
Evolution
14 posts
Why The Presence Of Wildlife Is Becoming More Common In Urban Areas
It’s a given for most homeowners across the country that they will, at some point in their life,…
Extinction Is Forever: De-Extinction Can’t Save What We Had
When I hike up into the hills around Salt Lake City, above the Bonneville Shoreline Trail where the…
Why War Evolved To Be A Man’s Game – And Why That’s Only Now Changing
One pattern characterises every war that’s ever been fought. Frontline fighting in warfare is primarily and often almost…
How Cities Are Creating New Species
From the nut-cracking crows of Sendai to ‘Turdus urbanicus’ (the new urban blackbird), animals are changing their behaviour…
Bird Brains Suggest How Ours Got So Big
New research uses birds to test a hypothesis about the origins of big brains. Given how proud we…
Cities Are Literally Changing Animals
How cities are changing animals. This feature is from The Verge.
Bike City Copenhagen : This Is The Ultimate Bicycle Friendly City
Welcome to Copenhagen, although if you’re a fan of two-wheeled transportation, you’ll probably come to know it as…
How Bikes Can Become Perfect For Urban Commutes
The bicycle hasn’t changed much since the 1890s: Today’s version has the same basic diamond shape and the…
Will 5G Bring New Dimensions To Our Wireless World?
The hottest topic at Mobile World Congress 2015 will connect billions of people and things to the internet…
When Animals Go Wild In The City
Perching on the side of an old power station chimney with St Paul’s Cathedral to the north and…
Evolving Cities And Culture
Innovation is critical to economic growth, progress, and the fate of the planet. Although innovation may seem to…
Cities Might Influence Not Just Our Civilizations, But Our Evolution
Cities reverberate through history as centres of civilisation. Ur. Babylon. Rome. Baghdad. Tenochtitlan. Beijing. Paris. London. New York.…
London’s Near-2000 Year History Mapped
Researchers at UCL’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis collated vast datasets to map the capital’s transformation from first-century…
The Evolution Of Urban Spaces
A popular new study claims to lump cities into four types. But the real science of cities is…