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,…
2020-10-01
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…
2020-08-07
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…
2018-08-17
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…
2018-08-01
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…
2018-07-31
Cities Are Literally Changing Animals
How cities are changing animals. This feature is from The Verge.
2017-12-06
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…
2015-08-31
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…
2015-06-03
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…
2015-05-29
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…
2015-04-22
Evolving Cities And Culture
Innovation is critical to economic growth, progress, and the fate of the planet. Although innovation may seem to…
2015-03-06
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.…
2015-02-16
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…
2015-02-05
The Evolution Of Urban Spaces
A popular new study claims to lump cities into four types. But the real science of cities is…
2015-01-31