Author Archives: Benjamin Dan

The advent and development of agriculture was an immensely important leap in the history of Humans as a species. There are different estimates as to exactly when we started farming and producing crops, however all the sources agree that doing so led to a revolution and allowed us to shift our focus from merely gettingContinue reading “Sustainable Agriculture: Returning to Our Roots?”

Libraries are great. They’re also old, like, really old. There’s evidence of collections of tablets with text in Assyria reaching as far back as the 7th century BCE, and despite almost three thousand years of progress, the general idea of a library is the same. While we don’t use tablets (at least not the ancientContinue reading “Not Your Typical Library”

I recall all throughout high school that we were always told “Wikipedia is not a good source, do not use it as it isn’t reputable or reliable”. Now, this wasn’t just one of my teachers mind you, it was all of them, and I know that many of my peers had the same experience throughContinue reading “Has Wikipedia Been Misunderstood?”

Scientific writing is a form of literacy which is quite different to what one usually encounters in everyday life, whether academic or otherwise. And while it is quite straightforward and aims for clarity and brevity while maintaining all the necessary details, in doing so it becomes almost alien to anyone entering the field. But itContinue reading “Scientific Writing Isn’t What It Used To Be”

Often when we think of habitat destruction the first image that pops into our minds is the loss of rainforests in South and Central America due to the vast amount of deforestation that occurs every day. And it’s no surprise that that’s the case, between 2004-2012 estimates suggest that 17.7 million hectares of the AmazonContinue reading “Logging, Agriculture, and the Loss of Birds”