The Crocodile and the Human Heart
In “Hot-blooded crocodiles?” (Tuesday, April 19, 2005), Mr PZ Myers writes: Crocodiles are beasts with an odd mix of features: they are ectothermic (meaning that …
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Birds, Brains, and Brahms
Some birds can move/”dance” to music, like the cockatoo Snowball, who can “dance” to Stevie Nicks. Birds seem to have some neurological precursor to music …
Monkeys & Music
In “Play that monkey music: Tunes inspired by tamarin calls seem to alter the primates’ emotions” (Science News, Tuesday, September 1, 2009), Jenny Lauren Lee …
The Fastest Muscles Alive
In “The Evolution Of Super-Fast Muscles” (Scientific Blogging, July 8, 2008, 12:00 AM), they write: [Coen] Elemans, the study’s first author, now is a postdoctoral …
The Integration of Biology With Chemistry and Physics: Anecdote 2
Isaac Asimov tells us another fascinating, intriguing scientific anecdote in A Short History of Biology: If a protein solution is placed in an electric field, …
More on the Death — the Murder — of Science Education
In “Science Workshop: Building a Lifelong Love of a “Boring” Subject” (Core Knowledge Blog, August 30, 2009), Robert Pondiscio quotes a newspaper article: The Future …
The Integration of Biology With Chemistry and Physics: An Anecdote
Isaac Asimov writes, in A Short History of Biology: Meanwhile, those steps in the breakdown of glycogen that lay beyond lactic acid and that did …
Life in Space
In “Building block of life found on comet” (Tue Aug 18, 2009, 9:37am EDT), Steve Gorman writes: LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The amino acid glycine, …
Picturing a Molecule: the Power of Math and Science
In”Single molecule, one million times smaller than a grain of sand, pictured for first time” (7:39 PM, 28th August 2009), Claire Bates writes: It may …
Drs. Hazen and Trefil: Science Education Has Failed
In “Book Marks: Science Matters” (Scott Holleran’s Blog; 14 June 2009), Mr. Scott Holleran writes: Two George Mason University science professors, James Trefil and Robert …