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Acts of Heroism and Signs that Make a Difference
Over the past thirty odd years, I’ve spent time at our local East Bay running track. It’s nestled against a steep hill, a ledge big enough for football and soccer pitch, and on the hillward side, a...
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Beauty’s in the Eye of Beholder
Streaming Lagoon AlgaeAlgal cells through the scope at about 100X These blobby green things are the primary organisms enveloping dead water portions of the Palace of Fine Arts Lagoon in San Francisco....
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In the Name of Science
A major case of scientific misconduct in cancer research has just started to unfold involving alleged fraudulent research, stolen data, and missing evidence. Oddly enough it wasn’t the bad science...
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Grooving Your Swing
The interplay between neurons and glial cells becomes more complex, Science, 333, 9/16/2011 Eric Kandel demonstrates Aplysia's droop reflect Our nervous systems, and that of other vertebrates, contain...
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Green and Blue All Over
Looking Skyward through the Maple Looking out my office window, I observe green plants everywhere, a lush, verdant view. Under a microscope, it turns out, it’s frequently more than green plants that...
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Pin Point Accuracy from Blurry Vision
In a recent study, Takashi Nagata et al, Science 1/27/2012 demonstrate that a jumping spider, H. adansoni uses chromatic aberration to help determine distance from prey. Prey typically being a small...
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Brain Traces
Golden eagle in flight, courtesy of Wikipedia Just this morning, I had a seminally enlightening moment; something that naturally comes to all of us. Several days ago, I was attempting to tell a...
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New 14 Letter Swear Word on island Earth
It’s come to me. I’ve finally discovered a new meaning for a commonly used word. It’s a politically correct swear word at best, but there have been others––”great leap forward,” “final solution,” “war...
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A Magnetic Sense of Wander
It turns out that at least some of the vertebrate organisms, i.e. pigeons, sea turtles, perhaps migrating birds generally, have a sense of magnetic field detection. A representational map of the...
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