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    As Big a Grain as You Can

    Wednesday, July 10th, 2002
    Category: Rants, Science

    Last week, the Worldwide Fund for Nature (otherwise known by their old initials: WWF) released a report which states that our planet is going to run out of natural resources within 150 years, and that by the year 2050, all of the world’s population will face severe restrictions on their lifestyle, just because resources will [...]

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    The Mystery of the Vanishing Vultures

    Tuesday, July 2nd, 2002
    Category: Science, Travels of an Intellectual Vagabond

    James Lovelock proposed the Gaia Hypothesis in the mid-80’s. Lovelock, a mathematician and an engineer, had proposed a model of the global ecosystem which maintains itself homeostatically; in other words, whenever one part of the system goes out of whack, another part of the system fills in. That, at least, is the basic idea of [...]

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    Ecological Engineering

    Thursday, January 10th, 2002
    Category: I Should Have Been a Firefighter, Science

    The other day after church, Jennifer and I had lunch with her parents. Jennifer’s mother asked me about the classes I’m taking in chemistry and mathematics, and what I plan on pursuing in graduate school. "What, exactly, is an ecological engineer?" she asked me.
    Well, according to the website for the website for the International Ecological [...]

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