By Paul Cooper on September 25th, 2009
For those of you who haven’t been religiously hanging on my every tweet (shame on you), I should start by mentioning that my wife and I recently took the plunge. No, we didn’t sell all our earthly belongings and go a-wandering in India. We merely moved from the city to the hinterland. We rusticated ourselves. [...]
By Paul Cooper on July 17th, 2009
Salmon researchers are not a bunch of tweed-clad academics politely arguing over a cup of tea. Think sailors engaged in a bar fight instead.
The scientists who study wild salmon populations are locked in a fierce debate over salmon farms, the sea lice that thrive in them, and the destructive effect of those sea lice on [...]