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Open Lab 2010 Now Available
Hey there loyal readers, Remember back in January when I announced that one of my posts had been selected for Open Laboratory 2010? Well, the wait is over (you’ve been waiting anxiously, right?). Open...
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Slacker Wrap-Up Part I: Eau de Toilette (Literally)
Hi, my name is Kelsey and I’m a slacker. (Note: Pete has progressed past the slacker phase into delinquency.) I will try to redeem myself—slowly. I have a whole slew (like five) of completely...
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Slacker Wrap-Up Part II: Wind-powered Leaping Larvae
In a roly-poly world filled with roly-poly things (like tumbleweeds and peas), the ability to transform one’s non-roly-poly self into a blur of roly-poly-ness can be essential to survival. Huh? See...
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Slacker Wrap-Up Part III: Toxic Transport
Remember Nunavut? (It’s Canada’s newest territory.) Most of Nunavut is above the Arctic Circle where it’s pretty dang cold and pretty dang unproductive (in a biological sense). But the two ponds on...
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Baby Birds Bump Off Competition
Aww, look at the little birdie feeding the big birdie: Wikimedia Commons: Per H. Olsen That’s a mama reed warbler and a baby cuckoo (note that the cuckoo doesn’t fit in the nest). It’s an adorably...
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The Dinosaur Post
I’ve never really been into dinosaurs. As a kid I knew the basics—Tyrannosaurus Rex, Triceratops and Brontosaurus—but I preferred furry animals. In fact, when asked what I wanted to do when I grew up,...
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Word of the Day: Apophallation
There are some things you just need to know, like the fact that Brontosauri never existed. There are other things you really should know, like the fact that sea cucumbers breathe out of their butts...
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Carnival of Evolution and Giant Jelly Explained
The latest edition of Carnival of Evolution is now up at Pharyngula. As usual, it’s filled with fabulous posts on evolution (including a fascinating piece on satin bowerbirds and how a researcher used...
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