The business of science

Researchers reduced to making noise just to prolong their careers is a poor outcome...

Facts and values

When a value meets a fact anything is possible...

Conservation value

There is much more to conservation than saving a koala.

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 …

Knowing

Most of us know a great deal about something. It might be the batting averages of New Zealand test cricketers or the best splash of colour for the living room colour palette.  Maybe it’s the way a computer is wired or the collected works of Edgar Allen Poe. Even those who profess ignorance know about …