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Yesterday I suffered a mysterious blog FAIL around 1 or 2 pm eastern time. Half of my post about desmids — intricate, microscopic plants — vanished within an hour or so of publication. I didn’t realize it until around 6 pm, when I fixed it. So if you read my post yesterday but there weren’t [...]
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Sometimes I want to show you something just because it’s wonderful. So today I’m introducing a new feature: Wonderful Things. The name is taken from my blog’s masthead, but is also inspired by Howard Carter. When he broke in to the tomb of Tutankhamun, he stuck a candle in the hole and surveyed the contents. [...]
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Any animated film starring pirates, Charles Darwin, and a dodo is going to be worthy of mention here, but Aardman Animations — of Wallace & Gromit and Chicken Run fame — has outdone itself with “The Pirates!: Band of Misfits”. I missed its theatrical run. But I happened to catch it recently and I think [...]
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For animals, inheriting more than the usual two copies of DNA is usually a very bad thing. It can happen when two sperm fertilize one egg, or when sexual cell division errs, leaving a sperm or an egg with double the approved payload. But for animal embryos, the result is usually the same: death. This [...]
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… and thank you to the late, great Carl Woese, for my post about both — Archaea Are More Wonderful Than You Know — was a finalist in the Best Biology Post category in this year’s ScienceSeeker Blog Awards. If you are interested in learning more about Woese and Archaea, I encourage you to listen [...]
