Year: 2023

What does science tell us about dogs?

A talk at The Royal Institution.

Does your dog really love you? Can dogs understand human emotions? And what’s the history of dogs and scientific research?

Jules Howard, author of the book Wonderdog, speaks for nearly an hour about the cognition of these incredible animals.

P.S. Jeannie is certain I have posted something similar not too long ago. If that is the case then my apologies.

The Book – “The Climate Casino”

Three hundred plus pages of vital information.

I bought this book from Thriftbooks and was so fired up that I sat down and started reading it almost immediately. For as the back cover explains:

Climate change is profoundly altering our world in ways that pose major risks to human societies and natural systems. We have entered the Climate Casino and are rolling the global-warming dice, warns William Nordhaus. But there is still time to turn around and walk back out of the casino, and in this book the author explains how.

William Nordhaus

William Nordhaus is a brilliant economist as Fred Andrews describes above. Indeed he is the Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University and he has his website here.

Now I am going straight to two videos.

The first is William Nordhaus receiving the Nobel Prize in 2018.

And the second is that lecture given at the same venue in 2018.

Hopefully you got to watch them both!