Deservedly bad rap, or not?

Sometimes we just have to admit the consequences of our actions

Post revisited — Historical science

Human success is hard to comprehend and the role of science rarely gets a mention

Conservation value

There is much more to conservation than saving a koala.

Farming of carbon is not carbon farming

Farmers know how important healthy soil is to their business. Shame we missed the carbon farming opportunity.

Drones

What’s the one thing stopping drones from taking off in agriculture? Interesting article that argues the obvious relevance of drone technology for agriculture — what farmer would not like a bird's eye view of performance on his paddocks — is hampered by friction. But the birds are coming.    

Seventeen percent

Would you boycott the gym if the machines gave faulty readings?

3 challenges for the pragmatologist

Pragmatology is not easy. Here are three challenges to being good at it.

What is pragmatology?

Pragmatology is the study of achievable solutions to complex problems. A weird mix of science and psychology.

Knowledge or evidence

If you type ‘natural sequence farming’ into Google the engine returns a little over 200,000 hits. Enter this string into Google Scholar and it returns over 200,000 scientific papers, albeit not all of them about this topic. Do the same on any of the specialist scientific referencing software like Mendeley or Zotero and a similar …