To understand why the border will never be secure, and why it doesn’t matter anyway, we have to turn to other voices. These voices can’t speak to the hope and pain of the Dreamers, but can authoritatively educate us about the futility of borders and the impossibility of absolute security. >>Read More

These endeavors, representing very different fields--disaster relief, ecosystem monitoring, and public health, respectively—are all of a type, joining many other emerging forms, that we might call Decentralized Observation (DO). >>Read More

All of Earth's successful organisms have thrived without analyzing past crises or trying to predict the next one. They haven't held "planning exercises" or created "predictive frameworks." Instead, they've adapted. >>Read More

What is the difference between adaptability and resilience? >>Read More

To understand a gene variant that might have helped humans adapt to humid climates, the research team used an animal model, along with whole-genome sequencing data. The findings of these studies could provide a road map to human biological history and modern day variability. >>Read More

Studies of dolphins, primates and humans show the reason we choose the companions we do is more complex, and perhaps less honorable, than we might think. >>Read More

Dog owners everywhere like to take their dogs to the park to play. But is their behaviour best described as "play"? >>Read More