The fifty rand note

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A Rand Note

A Rand Note

The Rand Myth

Many people believe that Objectivism is simply a movement composed of selfish, deranged, arrogant anti-environmentalists. They are right. The fact is, Objectivists care little for their fellow man and less for the facts. The staple of Objectivism is not science, but hollow pseudo-philosophic anti-intellectual claptrap and outright lies. All designed to trick well meaning people into accepting a...

Fire forbids fifty-fifty forest

Recent studies have interpreted patterns of remotely sensed tree cover as evidence that forest with intermediate tree cover might be unstable in the tropics, as it will tip into either a closed forest or a more open savanna state. Here we show that across all continents the frequency of wildfires rises sharply as tree cover falls below ~40%. Using a simple empirical model, we hypothesize that t...