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Why We Need Historians for Social Insects

Social creatures like us find ways to share tasks that perpetuate their communities. Cockroaches are not social even though they live together because they can scatter to the four winds and as long as they find mates they will survive. ….

Speaking to the Future from the Past About Nuclear Waste

UPDATE: The Yucca Mountain Project was defunded by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nevada) in 2010. The project was terminated in the Department of Defense and Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act, passed by Congress on April 14, 2011. The United States ….

The Ethical Dilemma of Preservation

Have you ever wondered what it might be like to live in the stone age? Fred and Wilma Flintstone had it easy compared to modern stone age peoples who survive in remote corners of the globe. Scientists speak of “Uncontacted ….