“If you can’t explain a topic to a six year old, you really don’t understand it yourself”. Professor Dawn Bazely mentioned this quote in the podcast “The People Behind the Science” http://www.peoplebehindthescience.com/dr-dawn-bazely/ (13:40) where she was being interviewed by Mary McNeely, the host of the podcast. We, as science students, come across, and memorize aContinue reading “Dawn Bazely’s Words of Wisdom”
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Ecological Footprint (The Revelation)
A few weeks ago, as a class, we received a guest lecture about ecological footprint given by Chaya Kapoor. This sparked my interest on the topic and I decided to conduct further research myself. I came across a journal by Wackernagel and Rees. It explains what ecological footprints for beginners e.g. non-scientists, describes as aContinue reading “Ecological Footprint (The Revelation)”
A Mass Extinction Might be Closer than we Imagined
After watching the documentary titled ” Call of Life: Facing the Mass Extinction” I discovered how much humans are impacting the loss of biodiversity in certain plant and animal species. The documentary mentions that half of Earth’s population and diversity of plants and animals are rapidly declining. Species are becoming extinct as the rate ofContinue reading “A Mass Extinction Might be Closer than we Imagined”
Applied Plant Ecology Winter 2020 