Jason Treberg discusses the impact of Paul Yancey et al.'s classic paper 'Living with water stress: evolution of osmolyte systems', published in Science in 1982. Occasionally a hypothesis comes along that is so broadly applicable to biological systems that it borders on being universal. Even less frequent is when the hypothesis involves linking knowledge from almost a century before with recent...

This research extends the range of domains within which children's gestures are found to play an important role in learning. The study involves children learning about balance, and the authors locate children's gestures within a relevant model of cognitive development--the representational redescription model (A. Karmiloff-Smith, 1992). The speech and gestures of children explaining a balance t...

Two of Tony Allan’s phrases – big water and accountants will save the world invite me to argue that irrigation is poorly served when its hydrology seen solely as or via accounts. While applies because irrigated areas deplete considerable volumes water, systems contain many more relations, behaviours puzzles. In this problematic, environmental, social governance (ESG) accounts become a dominant ...