No Time to Waste

Delayed biodiversity change: no time to waste.

Delayed biodiversity responses to environmental forcing mean that rates of contemporary biodiversity changes are underestimated, yet these delays are rarely addressed in conservation policies. Here, we identify mechanisms that lead to such time lags, discuss shifting human perceptions, and propose how these phenomena should be addressed in biodiversity management and science.

The next generation of obesity research: no time to waste.

THE OBESITY EPIDEMIC IS NOT THE FIRST MAJOR health crisis that the United States has faced. In recent decades, progress has been made against such daunting challenges as tobacco use, infant mortality, and HIV/AIDS. However, obesity may pose the most significant challenge yet because it involves changing approaches to 2 fundamental aspects of daily life: food consumption and physical activity. T...

No crisis should go to waste

No crisis should go to waste Mihai Nadin Reproducibility (or lack thereof, such as in biomedical sciences, cf. Goodstein 1 , or notoriously in psychology) affects more than the validation of experiments. Often, assumed reproducibility justifies transforming experimental evidence into convenient law (" evidence-based " policy, cf. Sarewitz 2). Failed reproducibility—almost exclusively in life sc...

No time to waste on the road to a liberal eugenics?

I n their article “No time to waste”, Arthur L Caplan, Brendan Parent, Michael Shen and Carolyn Plunkett make a valid point that there is “no time to waste” to regulate the application of CRISPR and other tools for genome editing [1]. Preventing the misuse of this new technology requires time for open discussions and should not be driven by the results of applying this technology, which cannot ...

No time to waste: a children's hospital Lean team streamlines its turnover process.