Kenneth Timmis

May 27, 2024 | enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Kenneth Timmis |John E. Hallsworth |Terry J. McGenity |Rachel Armstrong

INTRODUCTION The purpose of education (see Martin Luther King: http://okra.stanford.edu/transcription/document_images/Vol01Scans/123_Jan-Feb1947_The%20Purpose%20of%20Education.pdf; and Biesta, 2008 for discussions on why this is important) is to develop the minds and abilities of children, to help them realise their full individual potentials and to provide them with the knowledge and understanding they need to flourish as adults and manage the challenges and opportunities they will face that...

Apr 29, 2024 | enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Kenneth Timmis |John E. Hallsworth

MICROBES ARE SPECIAL Microbes are the dominant life form on Earth, collectively constituting a global biochemical reactor carrying out an unimaginable number and diversity of reactions that directly or indirectly sustain and regulate all life in the biosphere, and drive planetary processes and evolution (Falkowski et al., 2008; Goldman & Kaçar, 2023; Sousa et al., 2013).