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Graham Strouts

MSc Agroforestry student at Bangor University. Horticulture, conservation, forestry, rewilding, cycling. Blogs at theculturalwilderness https://theculturalwilderness.wordpress.com/

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Does NBA Income Inequality Impact Team Performance?

A new paper says that players where a few superstars get the money leads to less cooperation and poor team performance. The authors say this salary compression is why teams won fewer games. The…

Paid The Bill But Power Still Shut Off By ComEd, A Libertarian And Scientific Case For Solar Panels In Winter. UPDATE

We all pay our electric and gas bills in winter with more urgency than in summer because cold can kill you. Without both electricity and gas modern furnaces will not function. So we pay…

Rnf Enzyme: Missing Link Between Anoxic Life On Earth And Modern Respiration

Life developed when there was no oxygen on earth. It was an anoxic environment dominated by bacteria, who instead of oxidation and reduction, as our mitochondria do to produce energy, probably …

Observations From The Past Can Help Inform Climate Changes

Prior to the 1980s, most thermometers were both inaccurate and not placed using scientific methodology. But tree rings need time and ice cores even longer, which means for recent periods of time have…