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Micro-Livestock: A Possible Future
January 8, 2016Although animal science has traditionally emphasized bigness, the 1991 report Micro-Livestock: Little-Known Animals with a Promising Economic Future shows that smallness has many advantages. If in the future the human species will become smaller, we will benefit from most of the advantages listed below. Small animals…
The Tall Dutch
April 9, 2015Females to Mars
October 28, 2014Microbial Temper Tantrums
March 22, 2014In stressful conditions, cells must prevent the initiation of replication and shift their priorities to protective functions. In other words: they must stop division and growth. Experiments in bacteria at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have uncovered the mechanism that translates stress into blocked cell growth.…
7up 7down
November 5, 2013Japanese Miniatures: Tokonoma
July 26, 2013Short Hearts
April 9, 2013This Crowded Earth
November 30, 2012Gene Shortage
September 29, 2012Brodmann’s Area 10
September 10, 2012D.I.Y. Shrink List.
April 7, 2012A Puzzle with 300+ Pieces
March 19, 2012The Larons
November 9, 2011(Mad) Scientist Fiction
October 24, 2011Mankind seems so indoctrinated to think bigger that sometimes the mere suggestion that we should become smaller is thoughtlessly rejected as mad science. Ever since the 20th century our relationship with science, vacillating between science as the salvation of society or its doom, has been personified by…
Rewilding Ghost Suburbia
October 21, 2011Auxology Update
October 11, 2011Auxology is the highly multi-disciplinary science that studies all aspects of human physical growth. It includes such diverse fields as economics, medicine, nutrition, and anthropology. Auxologists could, and perhaps should, play a key role in inspiring the cultural shift needed in order to accomplish a smaller…