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Janet D. Stemwedel (whose nom de blog is Dr. Free-Ride) is an associate professor of philosophy at San Jose State University. Before becoming a philosopher, she earned a Ph.D. in physical chemistry. Email her at dr.freeride@gmail.com.

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Friday Sprog Blogging: building cells.

Category: Biology

Last week, the Free-Ride offspring and I used our Cell Project kit from Galaxy Goo to build some three-dimensional models of animal cells out of clay....

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Breaking news from the Free-Ride silkworm colony.

Category: Critters

About half of the Free-Ride silkworms (who you know from pictures and videos) have decided that it's time to pupate. Of course, we immediately broke out the video camera. But, then the truth started to dawn on us....

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An open letter.

Category: Biology

Dear Natural Selection, Can we have a chat about weeds?...

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A chat with Uncle Fishy about beekeeping.

Category: Biology

The challenges of keeping bees. Also, some stuff about fish. (Yes, I'm sure your chats are more focused than mine.)

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Spring keeps on springing (audience participation edition).

Category: Biology

No, I'm not asking you to identify these plants because I've forgotten what I've planted.

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Friday Sprog Blogging: fish fry.

Category: Biology

This Friday marks the first day of spring in the Northern Hemisphere. Accordingly, in SprogCast #5, the elder Free-Ride offspring marks the change of season by describing a local release of trout-fry. You can download the sound file and pretend...

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Crystal jellies.

Category: Biology

One of the jellies we saw during our February visit to the Monterey Bay Aquarium is especially important to biologists. The crystal jelly (Aequorea victoria) is not only an interesting critter in its own right, but also serves as a...

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Passing thoughts on nature documentaries.

Category: Biology

We've been watching some episodes of Blue Planet here, marveling at the beautiful cinematography, as well as at how emotionally gripping they can be. Especially in the Frozen Seas episode, I found myself feeling almost wrung out by the dramatic...

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Cross jellies.

Category: Biology

Back in February when we visited the Monterey Bay Aquarium, my communing-with-jellies time included an interval gazing at the cross jelly (Mitrocoma cellularia)....

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Purple-striped jellies.

Category: Biology

During our second day at the Monterey Bay Aquarium last weekend, I finally got my much needed jelly time. I also had occasion to notice that their jelly exhibits have shrunk significantly since their height a few years ago, and...

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