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Why pregnancy is a biological war between mother and baby | Aeon Essays

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 23:28:15 +0000

A ferocious biological struggle between mother and baby belies any sentimental ideas we might have about pregnancy

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Scientists are trying to understand cephalopods’ behavior and molecular makeup.

Thu, 17 Dec 2015 18:19:02 +0000

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God, Darwin and My College Biology Class - NYTimes.com

Tue, 30 Sep 2014 21:13:39 +0000

EVERY year around this time, with the college year starting, I give my students The Talk. It isn’t, as you might expect, about sex, but about evolution and religion, and how they get along. More to the point, how they don’t.

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God, Darwin and My College Biology Class - NYTimes.com

Tue, 30 Sep 2014 21:13:39 +0000

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The Mystery of the Canadian Whiskey Fungus | Magazine

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 19:27:54 +0000

When he arrived at the warehouse, the first thing he noticed (after “the beautiful, sweet, mellow smell of aging Canadian whiskey,” he says) was the black stuff. It was everywhere—on the walls of buildings, on chain-link fences, on metal street signs, as if a battalion of Dickensian chimney sweeps had careened through town. “In the back of the property, there was an old stainless steel fermenter tank,” Scott says. “It was lying on its side, and it had this fungus growing all over it. Stainless steel!” The whole point of stainless steel is that things don’t grow on it.

Tags: #alcohol #biology #booze #mold #science #whiskey

Monogamy Helps Geese Reduce Stress | Wired Science | Wired.com

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 23:56:19 +0000

“It seems to be one advantage of monogamy: If you have a long-term relationship, that helps you cope with stress. It’s a good thing to do compared to systems where you always have to find a new partner and have no support in such situations,” said Claudia Wascher, an ethologist at Austria’s Konrad Lorenz Research Station.

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Zonkey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 22:56:15 +0000

Tags: #animals #biology #donkeys #zebras #zonkey

Sugar Within Human Bodies Could Power Future Artificial Organs: Scientific American

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 04:15:03 +0000

"Now there is hope that future implants might be powered not by batteries but by the fuels in our bodies that are used for energy. Scientists have shown that fuel cells implanted in rats can successfully generate electricity from sugar in the rodent's bodies. The devices kept going for months at a time."

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Unorthodox - Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:20:43 +0000

"This has three odd consequences. The first is that, by the end of sex, the two individuals have become genetically identical. It’s as if you and your mate began coitus as yourselves and finished as identical twins. The second odd consequence is that, partway through its life, a ciliate can radically alter its genetic make-up; genetically speaking, the transformation is so extreme that it’s as if you changed into one of your children. Talk about being reborn."

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The GOP ticket's appalling contempt for science and learning. - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:05:43 +0000

"This is what the Republican Party has done to us this year: It has placed within reach of the Oval Office a woman who is a religious fanatic and a proud, boastful ignoramus. Those who despise science and learning are not anti-elitist. They are morally and intellectually slothful people who are secretly envious of the educated and the cultured. And those who prate of spiritual warfare and demons are not just "people of faith" but theocratic bullies. On Nov. 4, anyone who cares for the Constitution has a clear duty to repudiate this wickedness and stupidity."

Tags: #biology #creationism #education #election #elitism #evolution #fruitflies #gop #learning #mccain #palin #politics #religion #republicans #science

Hairy blobs found in acidic hell

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:05:10 +0000

"Kathleen Benison, a geologist at Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, led a team that studied the sediments formed by acidic and very salty lakes in modern day Western Australia, and those deposited around 250 million years ago in North Dakota."

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How to make a zombie cockroach : Nature News

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 22:42:06 +0000

"Researchers discover how wasps' venom makes roaches their slaves."

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The prospect of all-female conception - Independent Online Edition Science & Technology

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 19:48:40 +0000

"Scientists are seeking ethical permission to produce synthetic sperm cells from a woman's bone marrow tissue after showing that it possible to produce rudimentary sperm cells from male bone-marrow tissue."

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The tiny magnetite compass in the human nose | Anthropology.net

Sun, 03 Dec 2006 20:49:17 +0000

"Magnetite helps orientation and direction finding in animals. It no doubtingly helps migratory species migrate successfully by allowing them to draw upon the earth's magnetic fields."

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Damn Interesting - How Bacteria Nearly Destroyed All Life

Sun, 10 Sep 2006 20:34:01 +0000

"the cautionary tale catalogued in ancient rocks warns us that the environment is certainly not impervious to the actions of those living in it."

Tags: #biology #earth #environment