Science
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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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Adult Coloring. Does it Have Actual Health Benefits?
There is a big trend in the meditation and self-help communities of adult coloring for relaxation, stress and anxiety reduction.…
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Bringing Teleology Back: Agnes Arber’s Neo-Aristotelian Plant Morphology (Women in Science 46)
Evolution is great. As an explanatory idea, as a process governing biology, from just about any aspect you care to…
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Scientist Paper Dolls: The Full Collection
You wanted the set, you got the set! Download your favorites by clicking on their faces. (Please comment below to make…
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Capsaicin and The Science Inside Hot Peppers
My painting that teaches a bit about the bite that bites back in chili peppers is complete! *This post was…
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Ada Lovelace and the Curious Practice of Programming for Non-Existent Computers (Women in Science 45)
What did Ada Lovelace do? She is one of the most fetishized scientists today – at conventions when I’m taking…
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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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Guns N Taxonomy: The Vertebrate Biology of Annie Alexander (Women in Science 44)
As a rule, our favorite flavors of scientist are the theoretical and experimental – we tend to like them either…
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