Richard Zurawski

In the time that it will take me to write this blog, an astounding 10,000 new people, over and above the number that already exist on this pale blue dot, will make their entrance to the world. In October of this year we will pass the seven billion mark, that is, 7 with nine zeroes, [...]

Something that seems to have fallen off the radar in recent years and even decades, is food and food production. When I was a boy throughout much of the 1950s and 1960s, there seemed to be a constant flood of awareness of how precious food was and how privileged I was to have enough to [...]

Now here is a ready made series of happenstance disasters, illustrating almost perfectly a point that I have been trying to make for a very long time. First the point. Abandon scientific reasoning and studies at your peril. Just a couple of months ago the world was agog with the media tsunami in Japan. For [...]

You may or may not have noticed that I have taken the last little while off from blogging. In the interim I did, and continue to do my latest book tour and set in place the beginnings of another phase of my academic life. The effects of changing your schedule is amazing. It appears, at [...]