Biology
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When Memory Has Gone: The Neuroscience of Suzanne Corkin (Women in Science 66)
Forgetting is the horrible, beautiful necessity that keeps the past from swallowing the present but that, given too free a…
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the tragedy of dian fossey. (women in science 64)
There are people to whom it is given to wait alone on humanity’s dark edge and stand against all the…
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Speculative Biology via Twitter!
Last Friday, I started a game where via Twitter polls I collaborated with followers to make a planetary system, and…
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Aphantasia – What do you see in your brain?
What do you experience when you imagine things? Let’s do an experiment… Picture a red circle. Is it a picture? For…
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Must. Have. Morels.
I’ve spent a lot of time in my life trudging through underbrush. Getting poison ivy, countless scratches, bug bites, and…
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A Bay of Botany: Alice Eastwood’s Nine Decades and Three Hundred Thousand Specimens. (Women in Science 61)
April 18, 1906, and Alice Eastwood’s lunch bag hangs casually from a mastodon’s tusk while outside, a proud city burns. …
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