Review of Giorgos Kallis. 2019. Limits: why Malthus was wrong and why environmentalists should care

Ecohydrology--why hydrologists should care.

Why is cheating wrong?

It seems so obvious that cheating is wrong that providing a justification is not a main concern: most of the research is empirical and focuses on quantification and correlations. I look at a number of reasons why cheating may be wrong: it provides an unfair advantage over other students, it hinders learning, and it is dishonest. They are unexpectedly weak (often not proving that cheating is wro...

Why should we care about fly tumors?

Drosophila is proving to be a valuable model for studying aggressive tumors induced by the combined activation of EGFR and JAK-STAT signaling. Here we summarize some of the most recent data showing that tissue damage and the modulation of common pathway regulators are at the heart tumor progression and metastasis.

Why should biomedical scientists care about biodiversity?

The ecological tradition is different: ecologists emphasise the diversity of their organisms, and many ecologists would argue that their organism is ‘unique’ because it exhibits adaptations to its environment. This uniqueness is encapsulated in the Linnaean binomial nomenclature: this label, by definition, establishes that a group of organisms is distinct enough from their relatives. Sticking t...

Ataxia telangiectasia: why should the ERS care?

Affiliations: Nottingham Children’s Hospital, UK Paediatric National Clinic, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Nottingham, UK. Imperial College and Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK. Dept of Paediatrics, Division of Respiratory Medicine, Amalia Children’s Hospital, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Rare Diseases Service and Pediatric Neurology Unit, Edmond...