Evolution
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Elephant Seals: Men should try not to be like them
Animals don’t exist as cautionary tales for humans, but if they did, elephant seals would’ve clearly been created to tell men how not to behave.…
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Shingles Vaccine and Dementia: Good news, but only because we got lucky
Shingles, also known as herpes zoster, is a viral disease that causes a painful rash as well as pain and general malaise. There is a…
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Ecojargon: Think like an ecologist, but don’t talk like one, please
There’s something about the way ecologists talk that makes my eyes glaze over: Prairie plants sequester carbon, prevent erosion and provide key habitat for endangered…
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From Ole Worm to Christian Vibe: Connected by narwhals, the unicorns of the sea
Slime Mold Time Mold, on their blog, mentions Ole Worm, a Danish Renaissance naturalist. In 1638, he was one of the first to recognize that…
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Unedited: The smarter you are the easier it is to fool yourself
Donald E. Carr points out that the sense impressions of one-celled animals are not edited for the brain: “This is philosophically interesting in a rather…
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Genome Counter: We have sequenced more than 100,000 eukaryotic species
The Human Genome project took 13 years and cost $3 billion. It was completed in 2003, although some gaps took until 2022 to be filled.…
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