Nature News “The trouble with turbines: An ill wind” What is particularly scary about this story is the targeted effect that wind turbines can have on particular species who gravitate to the very wind corridors that are ideal for efficient power generation.
A Minor Post, Articles, Biodiversity Loss, Birds, Sustainable EnergyNature “Piled too high“
A Minor Post, Science as a career, WebBiology Letters “Emasculation: gloves-off strategy enhances eunuch spider endurance” Nature Research Highlights “Castration boosts spider stamina“
A Minor Post, Articles, Sex and ReproductionNew Scientist “Lost toad comes back from the dead” ScienceShot “‘Vanished’ Toad Sighted“
A Minor Post, Conservation Biology, Extinction, WebProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences “Delayed paternal age of reproduction in humans is associated with longer telomeres across two generations of descendants” Science Daily “Offspring of Older Fathers May Live Longer” What I find fascinating here is the hypothesized adaptive value of this genetic discovery: telomeres may be a molecular mechanism by which Read More
A Minor Post, Articles, Genetics, Human Evolution, SenescenceSteady State The Daly News “Real Dichotomies Are Not Made ‘False’ by Soft Science or Political Pandering” What’s really valuable here is the clarification of what is cultural construction (‘there does not have to be a conflict between economic growth and environmental protection’) and what is scientific reality (‘there is actually an empirically-demonstrable conflict between Read More
A Minor Post, Anthropogenic Change, Conservation Biology, Economics, Ethics, Sustainability, WebProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences “Functional diversity within the simple gut microbiota of the honey bee“
A Minor Post, Articles, Coevolution, MutualismProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences “Deer, predators, and the emergence of Lyme disease“
A Minor Post, Articles, ParasitismScience News “Peacocks ruffle feathers, make a rumble“
A Minor Post, Adaptation, Communication, MSCI-363, Biological Origins of Sound & Music, WebProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences “Purified and synthetic Alzheimer’s amyloid beta (Aβ) prions“
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