Science & Nature
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Cuttlefish in the Home Aquarium Part 2
Within the first week, the other three eggs hatched. According to others who have kept bandensis cuttlefish, if they are…
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Cuttlefish in the Home Aquarium Part 1
In August, I began a project that I’d wanted to do for a very long time: keeping dwarf cuttlefish in…
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Heritage and Challah
This past weekend was Rosh Hashana, which is the Jewish new year. Which is all well and good, but why…
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Making Mycological Masterpieces
Identifying mushrooms can be a lot of fun, but it can also leave you with beautiful artwork. Today I would…
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Yet another high profile paper about yet another epigenome that says the same thing, yet again.
A recent study developed a new way of probing the genome for “accessible” sites, and found the same things that…
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Gotta Formalin ’em All: The Marine Biology of Eugenie Clark, The Shark Lady. (Women in Science 42)
To the uninitiated, there seems a dizzying amount of carnage wrapped up in advancing biological knowledge. Every scrap of information…
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Computing Venus: The Astronomy of Maria Mitchell (Women in Science 38)
In the early nineteenth century nothing about the island of Nantucket made sense. It was simultaneously a hotbed of Quakerism…
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