Science & Nature
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Maria Merian: The Princess Bubblegum of 17th Century Biology
Biology took a while to figure itself out. For centuries, it was a mish-mash of Aristotelian sentiments and cabinets of…
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Aging, Metabolism, and Basic Biology
I’m really happy when a plan comes together, which means when my general plan of “talk about science journalism and…
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Battle of the Sexes: Why Mammals Won’t Lose the Y.
An Op-Ed by Maureen Dowd trying to explain conflicting predictions about the fate of the Y chromosome sent me on…
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Art Inquisition: So Good It’s Fridge Worthy… Now What?
This one’s for all you parents. As a child, the budding young botanist Francis Darwin, son of one Mr. Charles…
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My Favorite Winners of the 2013 Photomicrography Competition
Nikon Small World is a website that celebrates the teeny tiny images scientists capture with light microscopes. Just as satellite…
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A Unique Way to See Sea Turtles
About a year ago our family went on a Caribbean cruise, and one of the stops was Grand Cayman. At…
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Giraffe: A Pain in the Neck for Science?
Did you know that the giraffe’s neck is proof of a god of some sort? Neither did I until a…
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Salt Therapy: Take It with a Grain of Salt
Recently, I’ve been hearing more and more about salt therapies, or halotherapy, and its supposed benefits. According to the .pdf…
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