Science & Nature
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Butterfly in the Sky…Can We Keep It?
Sometimes as parents we say things to our children that unintentionally lead us down paths we had no idea we’d…
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Sharper knives for sharper images, or, the ‘Deli slicer’ portion of your biology PhD
I’m doing a bunch of staining experiments at work right now. That means that, hopefully, in the next couple weeks…
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Bad Moon Rising
It was the night of February 27th, 2013. Rob and I were driving down a stretch of dark highway when…
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Write this in DNA
Sometimes it seems like the “Age of Synthetic Biology” is actually the “Age of Writing Great Works of Literature Into…
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Fog: My Head in the Clouds
A couple of weeks ago we had some major fog happening down here in Texas. Where we live, when fog…
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The Perot Museum: An Oasis of Science
With all of the controversy surrounding Texas schools teaching Creationism (including Young Earth Creationism which teaches that the Earth is…
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Overly-Honest Product Stickers
I was reading the “Sunday Secrets” on Post Secret recently and saw one that said: “my family thinks I only…
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