A Michael Broad Blog
A comparison of the biomass of humans, wildlife and livestock is interesting. The livestock we rear makes up “more than 10 times the biomass of wild animals and birds” in the worlds of Godfrey-Smith. Human domination can be measured in many ways but one crude yet revealing metric is biomass by Michael Broad He …
A new study which involved a team of scientists going through 400 years-worth of literature and visiting and measuring dodo specimens around the UK came to the conclusion that it was invasive species such as cats and rats and others rather than Dutch sailors – who hunted the dodo for its meat – which …
Cats and dogs make you spend more according to an interesting study published online which you can access by clicking on the following link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2024.114838 (opens a new page/tab). I have speculated on the connection between owning a cat or dog and spending more. But I think it is common sense. This is a …
NEWS AND COMMENT: the story comes from Japan where theft remains relatively rare resulting in perhaps, by European standards, lax security. This is one important aspect of the story and the second is the fact that the price of copper has increased and continues to increase dramatically as it hit a record high of …
Initially, this was quite mystifying to me but I finally worked it out 😻. It concerns a place in Minneapolis referred to as the “Wedge”. The name comes from an area of Minneapolis which is wedge-shaped and which is the Lowry Hill East neighbourhood. I believe they have formed a cooperative in that area …
Perhaps the notable aspect of this video which shows a man saving a cat from a vicious dog attack is that he physically intervenes by grabbing the dog and pulling it off the cat. He did not resort to violence himself and, for example, kick the dog or hit the dog in some other …
The Humane Society of the United States’ internal style guide has long recommended that staffers refer to animals has “he/she/they” and “who”. An effort is also underway to call on the Associated Press to update its style guide’s recommendation on the use of personal pronouns for nonhuman animals. Shelter and rescue communications can help …
This is my response to the above video on Reddit.com on the website: I see the funny side and I see a good relationship albeit an unusual one. I just wonder if he is training his cat to be difficult. All these human actions indirectly train the cat to respond in a certain way. …
