Author Archives: Mukei

Curiosity, talent, duty, reinforcement

Posted on September 15, 2015 by Mukei

Naomi Oreskes on why people become scientists: Well, the idea that scientists are in it for the money is idiotic, because scientist are all intelligent people and if they wanted to make money there’s a lot of better things they … Continue reading →

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Emulating arrogance

Posted on June 1, 2015 by Mukei

“Look, first of all, the climate is changing,” Bush said. “I don’t think the science is clear of what percentage is man-made and what percentage is natural. It’s convoluted. And for the people to say the science is decided on … Continue reading →

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When the Mediterranean became once more a sea

Posted on April 21, 2015 by Mukei

The Mediterranean . . . it’s got these couple of problems. It’s a respectable-sized sea, y’know; it covers an area of 970,000 square miles (2.5 million square kilometers). That much surface area, you get a lot of evaporation. Now, that’d … Continue reading →

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They stopped, had a quick picnic, and carried on

Posted on April 17, 2015 by Mukei

John Hawks is a paleoanthropologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. In winter of 2014 he offered a 7-week MOOC (“massively open online course”) through Coursera, entitled Human Evolution: Past and Future. Superbly done, offered for free, the course included … Continue reading →

Posted in Paleoanthropology

Rising Star Expedition’s final day

Posted on November 28, 2013 by Mukei

The Rising Star Expedition is a joint project of the National Geographic Society and the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. Originally expected to be a brief expedition to recover a single partial hominid skeleton from a newly discovered … Continue reading →

Posted in Paleoanthropology