Albert Bartlett might have been another obscure physics professor had he not put together a now famous lecture entitled "Arithmetic, Population and Energy" in 1969. The lecture, available broadly on ...

University of Colorado professor Al Bartlett, who delivered a lecture on world population growth at least 1,742 times during his lifetime, died Saturday in Boulder. He was 90. Albert Allen Bartlett, ...

Exponential growth refers to a process where a quantity increases at a consistent rate over time, relative to its current value. In simpler terms, imagine you have $100 that grows at a rate of 10% per ...

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Self-replicating molecules are likely to have played a central role in the origin of life. Most scenarios of Darwinian evolution at the molecular level require self-replicators capable of exponential ...

In any biological system, if you put a living organism into an environment where it can thrive, with unlimited resources and no predators or competitors, it will always grow in the same fashion: ...

… but our independent journalism isn’t free to produce. Help us keep it this way with a tax-deductible donation today. Last week, I attended a talk by William Hoffman entitled, “The Biologist’s ...