Extinct-in-the-wild species' last stand

Extinct and Extinct in the Wild Amphibian Species

The catalog's last stand

This article describes the uncertain future of the online catalog, and the tension that exists between creating a cataloging code that meets user needs while adhering to principles deemed important by the cataloging community. Underscoring this tension are the provocative questions posited by the Taiga Steering Committee, which call into question the future of libraries. For the traditional cat...

Science in Iran. The sturgeon's last stand.

Bottom fisheries: These are generally for groundflsh species such as rockfish, cod, and sole, which are caught by bottom trawling, the fishing practice of dragging large nets weighted with chains, rollers, or rock-hopper gear across the seafloor. Trawling is the fishing practice most destructive of marine habitats. regulatory agenci to generate these quota which ideall hould make fisheries sust...

Social Neuroscience and the Soul’s Last Stand

“Eventually, as brain imaging is refined, the picture may become as clear and complete as those see-through exhibitions, at auto shows, of the inner workings of the internal combustion engine. At that point it may become obvious to everyone that all we are looking at is a piece of machinery, an analog chemical computer, that processes information from the environment. ‘All,’ since you can look ...

The ethics of reviving long extinct species.

There now appears to be a plausible pathway for reviving species that have been extinct for several decades, centuries, or even millennia. I conducted an ethical analysis of de-extinction of long extinct species. I assessed several possible ethical considerations in favor of pursuing de-extinction: that it is a matter of justice; that it would reestablish lost value; that it would create new va...