Biologist - August 2009
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Learning a new language in order to feed the world
Sir James Mitchell
A simple formula has to be found to deal with the massive problem of increasing poverty and world hunger. Let us learn a new language and a new alphabet that will take us from the laboratory to the farm and feed the starving
Science Policy
IoB welcomes return of select committee
Is confusion causing food waste?
IoB addresses Parliamentary links day
Sustainable cities
Caffeine – our favourite drug
Peter J Rogers
Caffeine is the most popular drug in the world. Per capita consumption is particularly high in Europe. But are its claimed benefits being oversold?
Deep Brain Stimulation
Morten L Kringelbach, Alex L Green, Erlick A C Pereira, Sarah L F Owen and Tipu Z Aziz
Researchers can electrically stimulate the brain to help with treatment-resistant disorders such as Parkinson’s disease and chronic pain – and this is now starting to yield new insights into the mind.
The Galapágos Islands today – 174 years after Darwin
Alan B G Lansdown
The Galapagos Islands have been called Darwin’s ‘Living Laboratory’ and still present a unique opportunity to study five million years of evolution and natural selection where plants and animal have adapted to survive and thrive in specific environmental niches.
The global impact of Indonesian forest fires
Mark E Harrison, Susan E Page and Suwido H Limin
More than 10 years after the massive Indonesian forest fires of 1997-98 grabbed international headlines, the problem is still far from solved.
Act local, think global!
Francis K E Nunoo, Stewart M Evans, Susan Gebbels and Lynne A Murphy
In a novel intercontinental educational initiative, schoolchildren from Ghana and the United Kingdom got to grips with problems facing coastal environments in their countries and produced their own recommendations for sustainable management.
Who was ... Georges Cuvier?
Stephen Hoskins
Cuvier was a French zoologist who was instrumental in systematising the classification of animals. He built upon and extended the work of Linnaeus.
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56_3_Rogers | PDF 305 Kb | Published 27 September 2009
Biologist 56-3 article: Caffeine - our favourite drug by Rogers -
56_3_Kringelbach | PDF 156 Kb | Published 27 September 2009
Biologist 56-3 article: Deep Brain Stimulation by Kringelbach et al -
56_3_Lansdown | PDF 303 Kb | Published 27 September 2009
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56_3_Harrison | PDF 406 Kb | Published 27 September 2009
Biologist 56-3 article: The global impact of Indonesian forest fires by Harrison et al -
56_3_Evans | PDF 198 Kb | Published 27 September 2009
Biologist 56-3 article: Act local, think global by Evans et al -
56_3_Hoskins | PDF 116 Kb | Published 27 September 2009
Biologist 56-3 article: Who was Georges Cuvier by Hoskins
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