Interesting readings I recently stepped into:

Science

• Future fossils: plastic stone (from the NYT)
• Is the notion that species interactions are stronger and more specialized in the tropics a zombie idea? By A. Moles and J. Ollerton
• Some blog articles on the difficult coexistence between agriculture and tropical ecosystems by J. Ghazoul
• Something is rotten in the state of Australia: after deciding to use the Great Barrier Reef as a dumping site for dredged sediment, the Australian government thinks of allowing the logging of 74,000 hectares of protected Tasmanian forest for timber.

Sort of science

• Academics anonymous: views of academia from the insiders (from The Guardian)

Nonscience

• “The Ship Breakers” from National Goegraphic
• Guardian investigation discovers enslaved fishermen on Thai shrimp fishing ships