Ryan Bates

Aug 7, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Ryan Bates

Who's the top boxer in the world today? We've picked that, plus nine others in our first-ever pound-for-pound list. Boxing is a simple sport. The goal, essentially, is to make your opponent incapable of fighting for ten seconds. In lieu of that, or a referee stoppage, the person who performed better over the course of the bout via judges’ scorecards wins. But at a glance, it can look complicated.

Jul 18, 2024 | lastwordongaming.com | Ryan Bates

War. War never changes. Neither does horror, for the most part. Instinctively, humans are born with two phobias – a fear of falling and of loud noises – and quickly pick up fear of the dark as well. Psychologists state that fear of the dark develops from our evolutionary need to protect ourselves, with darkness representing to a child the unknown. Monsters and demons and boogeymen could potentially exist in darkness, and it frightens us. But war… war never changes.

Feb 29, 2024 | nature.com | Rikki Gumbs |Ryan Bates |Michael Hoffmann |Benjamin Tapley |Samuel T. Turvey |Walter Jetz | +1 more

AbstractHuman-driven extinction threatens entire lineages across the Tree of Life. Here we assess the conservation status of jawed vertebrate evolutionary history, using three policy-relevant approaches. First, we calculate an index of threat to overall evolutionary history, showing that we expect to lose 86–150 billion years (11–19%) of jawed vertebrate evolutionary history over the next 50–500 years.

Feb 8, 2024 | biorxiv.org | Ryan Bates |Elizabeth Taylor |ElizaBeth Taylor |Yuheng Sun |Rikki Gumbs

AbstractThe IUCN Red List of Threatened Species assigns species to discrete categories based on a common set of criteria to capture relative extinction risk. Some quantitative analyses require a continuous probability of extinction not provided by discrete categories. Furthermore, the criteria may not translate to extinction risk in a universal way across species, because some species' attributes are not incorporated into the criteria.