Biology
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Hyperbolic Crochet
I never took any of the classes in the excellent fiber department at my art school. Maybe I thought it…
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Capping the Chromosome: Elizabeth Blackburn and the Discovery of Telomerase (Women in Science 59)
Telomerase is one of those enzymes which just won’t let you come to a settled opinion. When it runs wild,…
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Argonne National Laboratory’s Microbiome Project: Surgery
Shortly after I’d written my last post (let’s not reflect on how long ago that was), I got tapped for…
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Vibrating Spiders and Waggling Bees: Madeline Girard’s Multi-Modal Menagerie. (Women in Science 57)
It’s not what you say, it’s how you vibrate your opisthosoma while you’re saying it. – Ancient Peacock Spider…
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Blue Babies with Crossword Puzzle Hearts: The Pediatric Cardiology of Helen Taussig. (Women in Science 56)
It’s sometime in the 1930s, and you’re walking into a ward full of crouching children with blue-tinted lips. Something is…
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Odilon Redon’s Dark Musings on Evolution
Imagine you are Adam or Eve in the Garden of Eden in a state of blissfully ignorant grace. You reach…
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Art of the Gaps 2: Extraterrestrial Life?
Happy New Year! Part of being human is having the drive to question the mysteries of the world around us.…
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