“I appreciate your evidence-based approach.” I said recently, in a heated discussion about washing nappies, “But while the NHS recommends using non-bio detergents on baby clothes, you aren’t likely to convince the whole country to change its view.” “Yeah,” said a colleague, “getting the NHS to change their views on anything is like trying to…
A starling murmuration is an amazing sight. At their largest you can get millions of birds wheeling about the sky just as the sun starts setting. But it’s a phenomenon we know surprisingly little about. Last year I reported on work by the University of Gloucestershire and The Royal Society of Biology to change all…
This interview is with Shah Selbe. Shah is a National Geographic Explorer and, with colleagues at Nat Geo and elsewhere, is helping to shape the fields of open ecology and open conservation. As he says, he’s an engineer developing technologies to help with our greatest conservation challenges. In this interview, Adam Terlson and I interview Shah…