Whose Reality is This?

After nearly a six year hiatus I hit the weights. And I found myself as my own client. "Slow, and with purpose."  "Concentrat...

Reported in May 23' 2013' issue of Nature journal: Hot topic, scalding hot, is the observed decrease in elk population in Yellowston...

Which came first: The obese chicken or its obese microbiota? « Nothing in Biology Makes Sense! Good summary of a recently published paper ...

"As we talked we started to wonder: do you get further in academia if you are a jerk?" A recent blog post, Academic assholes and...

KcD Studios: senior thesis  A brilliant idea and wonderful artistic imaginative renditions. A great idea to incorporate into teaching chem...

I find it sadly amusing that we still strive to reduce the obesity/diabetes problem down to one cause. As if reality and the world were bi...

There I was; leading a small team of scientists to save these precious proteins for the world. For the future. Ice cream proteins. We had ...

After many years in medical and veterinary biology and pathology, I always questioned the (rather blind) reliance on the mouse model by mode...

Climate change cometh. This year (so far) has been one of extreme weather nationwide. Rivers are either flooding or drying up (exemplified h...

I've known about Dr. Belyaev's experiment for many years, but this is the first (current) video of the foxes. The incredible fox ...

I have no words that can express the relevance and importance of this movie and it's content.

“What You Think, You Become.” Wow! Really? | Secret Life of Scientists & Engineers | PBS

In The Demon-Haunted World , Carl Sagan wrote: Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of ...

The Pronghorn is one of the iconic mammals of the West in North America. Often referred to as 'antelope,' Antilocapra americana is ...

Loosely following the debate, discourse and arguments surrounding climate change, sometimes I just have to look away. Like watching a bad wr...

"...epidemiologist Thomas Reichert of the Entropy Research Institute in Lincoln, Massachusetts, finds Polack's hypothesis complete...

How do I silence The tugging heart strings the tickling sadness the fleeting joy. How do I quiet the repressed longing the remembered images...

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear. - Herbert Agar

"Some people mistake being loving for being a sap. Quite the contrary, the most loving people are often the most fierce and the most ac...