Biology
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A Voice from the Silent Spring: The Life and Ecology of Rachel Carson
“Hunger, hunger, are you listening, To the words from Rachel’s pen? Words which taken at face value, Place lives of…
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NSFW Balloon Animals
For reasons too complex and bizarre to explain in full, I found myself needing to learn the craft of ballooning…
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Biological Units: The Strength of A Single Cell
Several recent papers have proposed methods of seeing huge numbers of individual RNA molecules within a cell. I suspect that…
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Carolynn L Smith and the Astounding Richness of Animal Communication
You’re a rooster who’s down on his luck. Your comb is a bit shabby, your fighting skills aren’t up to…
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The things we do with our eggs; reproductive health and genetic engineering
This op-ed in the New York Times set off a few of my warning bells. There’s the refusal of the…
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Stem Cells, Stressed Cells, Healing, and the Lure of Rejuvenation
A recent study in Nature, entitled “Stimulus-triggered fate conversion of somatic cells into pluripotency“, suggests that subjecting cells to dangerous…
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Clean Water, Breathable Air, and the Science of Food: The Legacy of Ellen Swallow
Every morning we wake up to a feast of assumptions. We assume that the place our sewage gets dumped is…
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