Published inAha! ScienceOrganism that Lives Less Than 1 Day Predicts the SeasonsMeasuring daylight to predict the futureOct 39Oct 39
Published inAha! ScienceHow Can This Seabird Get Enough Sleep When It Spends Weeks in the Air?Great frigatebirds can’t land on the water, so they’ve evolved to take the ultimate power napsMay 1410May 1410
Published inCurated NewslettersWhat Evolutionary Biology Says About the Future of AIRather than a pure robot civilization springing up de novo, it’s more likely that AI will integrate itself into things that already exist…Feb 1819Feb 1819
Published inCurated NewslettersEvolution and aging: do the dinosaurs have anything to do with human senescence?How senescence evolvesJan 67Jan 67
Published inILLUMINATIONThe diet of our ancestors: what tapeworms tell us about human evolutionMost of us don’t think about tapeworms much. They’re uncommon in the developed world, and kind of gross. But it turns out the little…Oct 19, 202320Oct 19, 202320
Published inILLUMINATIONWhat Can We Learn From A Sleeping Octopus?In recent years, an accumulation of research has made very clear how important getting enough sleep is for human health. There’s a wider…Jul 21, 202311Jul 21, 202311
Adventures in metabolism: If your cat eats antifreeze, you can ask your vet to get him drunkThe main ingredient in antifreeze is a compound called ethylene glycol (also found in various other products). This stuff is really bad to…Mar 20, 202311Mar 20, 202311
Published inILLUMINATIONYouth and the Pleistocene ClimateThe connection between climate change and adolescenceDec 1, 2021Dec 1, 2021
Published inILLUMINATIONThings Not SeenReflections on Life and Science in the PandemicSep 16, 2021Sep 16, 2021
Published inMedium Coronavirus BlogA Closer Look at the Alarming Resurgence of Covid-19 in Manaus, BrazilWhat sequence analysis and computation reveal about the deadly spread of the virusMay 12, 2021May 12, 2021