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An Addendum to “Our African Big Five”
Not too long ago, we posted a blog post detailing the animals that make up the “African Big Five”: the African elephant, the cape buffalo, the lion, the leopard, and the rhinoceros. We wanted to understand how these animals’ populations were faring after seeing them on safari in 2010, and what kinds of threats…
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Will Fleets Ever Buy Electric Pickups?
I recently was listening to an episode of the Waveform Podcast where they were discussing the forthcoming Slate pickup. In this clip, the podcasters blithely describe their views of what a small business buyer might want and how well the Slate will serve: When the Ford F-150 Lightning was introduced, I had the same…
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Taxonomy: Why It Matters
Taxonomy, put very simply, is the combination of practice and science of categorization of things— for biologists, taxonomy is specifically the classification of organisms into a framework that reflects the relative recency of a common ancestor. While taxonomy has been practiced since ancient times, biologists recognize a couple watershed publications by the Swedish scientist…
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Our African Big Five
Ernest Hemingway, in stories like the Green Hills of Africa and The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, worked to romanticize big game hunting in Africa in the early part of the twentieth century. While Hemingway didn’t coin the term “African Big Five,” hunters in the late 19th and early 20th century coined this…
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Protection From Competition is No Favor
Tom Brady once remarked “I didn’t come this far to only come this far. I want to play against the best and I want to win against the best.” Would we admire the G.O.A.T of NFL quarterbacks as much if the NFL commissioner had openly made it known that Tom’s teams would be protected…
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The Geologic Time Scale
A common trope in science fiction and fantasy is that of a long-lived being, like the Elves Galadriel and Elrond in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, or the Time Lord the Doctor in BBC’s Doctor Who. These beings often engage with mortal Men or humans who, in comparison, live vanishingly short lifetimes…
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Hello world!
Hello world from Forska Research and Consulting. Welcome to our blog. Forska is a new company formed to pursue investigation across a broad array of subjects. Rod has had a long career in wireless telecommunications as a patented inventor and executive leader. Margot recently completed her PhD in Environmental Science and Public Policy from…
