Biology:
Category: Biology
Most psychoactive substances only occur in a small group of closely related plants. But caffeine pops up in widely divergent branches of the floral kingdom.
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Posted by Martin R at 9:53 AM • 7 Comments •
Category: Biology
The press release claims that on one hand natural wetlands are not more biodiverse than recently dug ponds, on the other hand that biodiversity in wetlands increases with age.
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Posted by Martin R at 8:47 AM • 0 Comments •
Category: Biology
Signs of spring so far around where I live, apart from the obvious sunshine and disappearance of the snow & ice:Crocus Snowdrop Scilla Blackbird singing at sundown (ah!) Magpies brawling...
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Posted by Martin R at 9:11 AM • 15 Comments •
Category: Archaeology
A less well-known way in which Darwin's great idea was misunderstood or misappropriated.
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Posted by Martin R at 9:58 AM • 11 Comments •
Category: Biology
I am impressed by the gay dolphins' invention of nasal intercourse.
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Posted by Martin R at 7:21 AM • 14 Comments •
Category: Biology
Our goal should never be to rid the planet of humans.
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Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 91 Comments •
Category: Biology
There is no way of life that is ecologically sustainable for a global population of more than a billion.
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Posted by Martin R at 5:17 AM • 68 Comments •
Category: Biology
Somewhere, sometime, the first bird that fulfilled a genetic definition of chickenhood hatched.
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Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 22 Comments •
Category: Skepticism
A rare piece of irate e-mail.Hi Mr. Rundkvist, This is Gregory from the US. I was reading your thoughts on Dr. Moller and the Exodus Case. You criticize Moller for not trying to disprove his hypothesis. Tell me; do evolutionists...
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Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 73 Comments •
Category: Biology
It is an adjective ending in an S, just like erectus, afarensis and neanderthalensis.
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Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 26 Comments •
Category: Biology
Today we had eleven kinds, most of them hedgehogs and boletes.
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Posted by Martin R at 9:15 AM • 16 Comments •
Category: Biology
Wind-borne seeds like thistledown that can sprout anywhere.
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Posted by Martin R at 3:21 PM • 11 Comments •
Category: Biology
The find spot hasn't been near the sea since the end of the latest ice age.
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Posted by Martin R at 5:29 PM • 10 Comments •
Category: Art
Got up early this morning, six thirty, and slipped out for an hour's walk. The sun was already pretty high but still veiled in mist. I walked past vineyards and olive groves toward a farmhouse until yapping guard dogs made...
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Posted by Martin R at 4:58 PM • 8 Comments •
Category: Biology
The beavers are rallying in Sweden, multiplying and repossessing old habitat.
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Posted by Martin R at 7:54 AM • 4 Comments •
Category: Skepticism
The attacker struck during a break in the 10th International Conference on Science and Consciousness.
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Posted by Martin R at 9:58 AM • 1 Comments •
Category: Biology
New research from the University of Gothenburg shows the oldest phylum among the animals to be the ctenophores.
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Posted by Martin R at 3:02 PM • 6 Comments •
Category: Biology
To learn what the spruce genome was like 8,000 years ago, we needn't look for deadwood in bogs.
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Posted by Martin R at 2:37 PM • 18 Comments •
Category: Biology
Water suppliers use natural water to make tap water.
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Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 25 Comments •
Category: Books
In the US you can't popularise evolutionary biology without taking a stand against obfuscating fundies,
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Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 15 Comments •
Category: Carnival
Hey everyone, and welcome to the 96th Tangled Bank blog carnival! This is where you can toadally catch up with the best recent blog writing on the life sciences. BeastiesGrrlscientist at Living the Scientific Life explains why bright blue...
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Posted by Martin R at 8:50 AM • 1 Comments •
Category: Environment
This was one of those paper mills that used mercury in a big way.
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Posted by Martin R at 8:50 AM • 7 Comments •
Category: Biology
"I have been a beekeeper for eleven years now, having sort of tagged along when my father first bought two hives..."
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Posted by Martin R at 4:07 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: Biology
Longer than my little finger and shiny green.
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Posted by Martin R at 2:39 AM • 7 Comments •
Category: Biology
These cool-looking omnivores make their home in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Posted by Martin R at 8:50 AM • 4 Comments •
Category: Biology
The thing to note here is that I didn't know what I was doing.
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Posted by Martin R at 8:50 AM • 12 Comments •
Category: Biology
Everything hurries to bloom and procreate before the cold and snow returns.
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Posted by Martin R at 8:50 AM • 7 Comments •
Category: Biology
Huss has built software models of bits of the lamprey's spinal cord.
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Posted by Martin R at 8:50 AM • 0 Comments •
Category: Psychology
Some people screw around a lot, some very rarely, and some not at all.
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Posted by Martin R at 8:50 AM • 39 Comments •
Category: Biology
Something that forms the basic element of a snake-like thing, maybe?
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Posted by Martin R at 9:05 AM • 4 Comments •