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From Fitness to Optimality: The Back Swing of Darwinism's Clock
This year is the 200th anniversary of Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of The Origin of Species. Looking back at the developmental history of biological thinking over the 150 years since the publication of The Origin of Species, we noticed that...
Human Body Art Exhibition at the Ontario Science Centre
The Body Worlds Exhibition is returning to accommodate the thousands of people that waited in line around the clock to see the plastinated models made from real human body parts taken from cadavers. Now,... Is it OK to impregnate a 60-year-old woman?
"Should old women have babies? Until recently, this wasn't an issue. Nature exhausted your egg supply, and that was it. But technology has surmounted that problem. Now you can get in vitro fertilization, donor eggs, and womb-rejuvenating hormones. You can freeze your eggs or... 316 views | 12 recommendations | 9 comments
Challenging Popular Myths About Autism
i could say a lot about the popular myths about autism, but i happily don't need to: someone already wrote an absolutely fantastic article. RACHEL COHEN-ROTTENBERG wrote such an accessible, accurate, direct and personally touching article on the topic, i thought it should... Fiction is crucial to our survival as a species
"Why do human beings spend so much time telling each other invented stories, untruths that everybody involved knows to be untrue? People in all societies do this, and do it a lot, from grandmothers spinning fairy tales at the hearthside to TV show runners marshaling roomfuls... Mass dolphin strandings blamed on military sonar
Mass dolphin strandings in some parts of the world are being blamed on military sonar, as the animals become temporarily deaf for about 40 minutes after sonar has passed through the region. Hearing is important to... MWV Episode 27 - ASMCUE
The American Society for Microbiology Conference for UndergraduateEducators (ASMCUE) is an interactive four-day conference on scientificupdates and effective teaching strategies. Now in its 16th year,... Protistia.
Protist are everywhere. They are noticable on the ground, they are in the air on the foods you eat, this is why they are the largest of the biological kingdoms.Protist come in all shapes and sizes, some can take... Science Shows Universe Not Eternal
We've all asked the question from the age of 2. Why did the universe have a beginning but not God? If God didn't have a beginning why should the universe have a beginning. Couldn't the universe just have always... 479 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
The agricultural apocalypse and the upcoming food shortage.
By, Uwe Paschen. Climatology and Agriculture are by far not a simple science nor easily understood by simply reading a couple of articles or even books about it. Why it is so difficult to follow and make sense... Jane Goodall branches out
" Jane Goodall's research has changed the definition of what it means to be a human. When she went to what is now Tanzania in 1960 to study the chimpanzees of Gombe, humans were thought to be the only animals capable of making and...HonKong - Synthetic Bio, students program DNA, new computers, synthetic fuel ...
Synthetic Biology: renewable fuel ? The Microprocessor created intelligent, self controlling, so called closed loop machines. the next step happens in Hong Kong China, program the DNA of a bacteriaand look what...Scholars suggest Human DNA shows signs of being an Invasive Extraterrestrial ...
Many scientists have documented that over 95% of Human DNA does not have a known purpose. This DNA has been colloquially referred to as "Junk DNA". However, other researchers have not been content to simply...The Biology of Ideology: Voting and Genes
Scientists are looking towards our genes to learn more about which way we vote, or whether or not we even choose to do so."In a wave of new research since the last presidential campaign, political scientists are...Songbirds Duel and Make-Up With Duets
One new study has discovered that some birds fight with each other by singing - kind of like a West Side Story scenario. They use tweets to defend their relationships and territories against other birds.Another...
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