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This Is Informative, You Should Watch It of the Day: The latest…

Posted on October 22, 2011 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

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This Is Informative, You Should Watch It of the Day: The latest illustrated lecture from The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts features psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist, author of definitive hemispheric functioning tome The Master and His Emissary , explaining “how our ‘divided brain’ has profoundly altered human behaviour, culture and society.” [ rsa .] Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : The Daily What Discovery Date : 21/10/2011 12:44 Number of articles : 2

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Tar Sands Not Most Destructive Project on Earth, But Very Far From Benign: Royal Society of Canada

Posted on December 16, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Tar Sands Not Most Destructive Project on Earth, But Very Far From Benign: Royal Society of Canada

image: RSC TreeHugger has filled a great many virtual pages on the topic of Alberta tar sands , detailing time and time again the high environmental costs of extracting this so-called unconventional source of oil , which the Albertan government has bet much of its future on. Now the more august and staid body of the Royal Socie… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Royal Society Paints Grim Picture of 4°C Temperature Rise

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Royal Society Paints Grim Picture of 4°C Temperature Rise

Drought and desertification could be widespread within 50 years. Photo: John Brawley / Creative Commons . With no doubt intentional perfect timing as the COP16 climate talks open in Mexico, the Royal Society has released a special issue on the future impacts of climate change and, as you might imagine if you’ve been following the climate research to date, the … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Mediterranean Great Whites Originally From Australia Not Atlantic

Posted on November 17, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Mediterranean Great Whites Originally From Australia Not Atlantic

photo: Brandon Fick / Creative Commons Some really interesting research in Proceedings of the Royal Society B highlighted by BBC News : Scientists have determined that the great white sharks living in the Mediterranean are more closely related to th… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Don’t Eat Food That Doesn’t Rot – Michael Pollan’s Food Rules (Book review)

Posted on June 11, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Michael Pollan travelled to London this week to dish up his latest nourishing read, Food Rules – An Eater’s Manual. This collection of home spun dietary advice, that was previewed in the New York Times last year, has now been published in the UK by Penguin. Speaking at the Royal Society of Arts on Monday Pollan put forward the case that actually, with or without the increasingly prescriptive advice… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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British right-wing global warming skeptics are revolting!

Posted on June 1, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

A small but vocal minority of neo-cons in Britain's Royal Society have reopened the debate on whether global warming is happening. http://looncanada.wordpress.com/2010/05/31/revenge-of-the-right-wing-climate-cha… added by: looncanada

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