A Win Win

What if we could increase marine food sources for people while also fighting climate change and preserving—or even increasing—marine biodiversity?[1] That is what Enric Sala, a marine ecologist, wants to do, and it appears to work. Sala wants to set aside approximately 30 percent of the most biodiverse ocean and Read more…

A False Choice

In 1633, sixty-eight-year-old astronomer Galileo Galilei was tried and condemned by the Inquisition for advocating the “heresy” that the Earth was not the center of the universe, but that it instead rotated around the Sun. The Church forced Galileo to recant. The Church grounded its position in scripture.[1] The 17th Read more…