I am so sensitive, I cry frequently. I am so soft, I cannot kill a cockroach. But very few things boil my blood like hoaxes and harmful conspiracy theories. It can take days to write all the points to refute one, yet the burden of proof is not on the one spreading such claims, but…
Scientists Are Giving Dead Brains New Life. What Could Go Wrong? – The New York Times
In experiments on pig organs, scientists at Yale made a discovery that could someday challenge our understanding of what it means to die. — Read on http://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/02/magazine/dead-pig-brains-reanimation.html
Melting glacier reveals astonishingly resilient frozen moss – The Washington Post
In Earth’s icy fringes, bacteria, moss and nematodes are bearing life anew. — Read on http://www.washingtonpost.com/science/ancient-life-awakens-amid-thawing-ice-caps-and-permafrost/2019/07/05/335281f8-7108-11e9-9f06-5fc2ee80027a_story.html
A Billion-Year-Old Fungus May Hold Clues to Life’s Arrival on Land – The New York Times
A cache of microscopic fossils from the Arctic hints that fungi evolved long before plants. — Read on http://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/22/science/fungi-fossils-plants.html
The Importance of Sleep
A while back my brother was mentioning that one of his friends slept for only a few hours a night, and she didn’t understand the importance of sleep or how our body’s cellular clock works. Around that time I was doing some readings on the circadian rhythm, so figured to write a blog about the…
Evolution or Creationism?
A few weeks back a friend asked me if I believed in creationism or evolution. I did not answer because I do not think that a simple "yes or no" answer, without context, really answers something that is as complicated and controversial as this topic. There are many good and intelligent people who do not…
A nice, short description about the theory of evolution
definitely one of the best description of the theory of evolution. thing is, folks who understand it will keep posting this. folks who don't understand it will never watch this. c'est la vie...because really, homo sapiens is the 'best' a 'designer' could do... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZt1Gn0R22Q
Novel genetic patterns may make us rethink biology and individuality
Novel genetic patterns may make us rethink biology and individuality.
The Philosopher-Scientist 