From the monthly archives:

April 2009

Lesbian Necrophiliac Bdelloid Rotifers (and the Scientists who Love Them): Part 1

April 30, 2009

So you’ve been having a rough decade eking out a living as a bdelloid rotifer, living in the soil, some moss, or a small vernal pool. First, it stopped raining a few days after you hatched. Then you entered a period of dried-up stasis in which your cell membranes ruptured, metabolism ground to a halt, [...]

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The Fish with the Observation Deck

April 22, 2009

Back in March, I posted a link on Facebook to this blog, the aptly named, “Scientists Solve the Mystery of Why this Fish is So Freakin’ Crazy”, at the Deep Sea News.
The blog includes this clip:

If there was ever a fish that belonged on Futurama . . . this is it. The see-through head apparently [...]

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My science lineage on NPR!

April 15, 2009

So most of my friends (and probably most of you here) have figured out I’m a bit, well, extra excited about fungi. Well, the person who planted the spore in my brain (and the person who trained her) hit the airwaves and Interwebz today after Cornell (Alma mater A) published a press release about the [...]

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