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I don't know why this fascinates me so, but the Tyrolean mummy they call the "Iceman" has made (or unmade) more science career...

Here's a peek at what I've been up to lately: I'm enjoying revisiting my ecology textbooks and reading new PLoS ONE articles. I...

jstor opens limited free access option non-subscribing scholars | Inside Higher Ed : "The depletion of the traditional professoriate ha...

A New Stalked Filter-Feeder from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale, British Columbia, Canada . 2012. L. J. O'Brien and J.-B. Caron. PL...

My wild New Year's Eve activity was watching Netflix's streaming video of Werner Herzog's Cave of Forgotten Dreams . I was expe...

These videos made me laugh really hard. I have no idea why this amuses me, but I'm having Linux trouble today, can't figure it out,...

In all the years I worked in science, microscopy was my very favorite thing, so I was excited to find this timely video on a collection of...

Via Slashdot , I read Soviet Scientist Turns Foxes Into Puppies , where I found these links to documentary excerpts. I don't know wha...

I've had this article sitting on my "to blog" list for a while: Bugs Inside: What Happens When the Microbes That Keep Us Healt...

If like me, you love the Burgess Shale fossils, you'll be taken with this news item: Eight-armed animal preceded dinosaurs . It's ...

Lincoln Walks At Midnight points to several articles on the presidential race in West Virginia, including The Washington Post's A New ...

Last month Sherry informed me that Kentucky's Creation Science Museum is in some financial hot water. That's why, when I came acro...

Paleoblog points to an amazing fossil find, Prehistoric Armored Worms. The fossil in question is very lifelike, showing extensive soft tis...

Last month, I substituted for a seventh grade science teacher. The topic du jour was evolution. There's been no controversy about cour...

I came across these plates from Ernst Haeckel: Kunstformen der Natur 1899-1904 a couple of weeks ago on a needlework design Web site. I wa...

Reya tipped me off to a delightful book, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan (2001). It's the...

Michael J. Ryan's wonderful Paleoblog points out that yesterday, November 14, was the birthday of Charles Lyell, prominent geologist ...

One Species' Genome Discovered Inside Another's . I thought this was an interesting article, and it comes out of the research instit...

Underwing or Catocola moths are common on Droop Mountain, and there are quite a few species with colorfully-striped hindwings of yellow, o...

The St. John's Wort has been in bloom the last couple of weeks. They're small but beautiful flowers. Don't you love that cloud ...