Shark Attacks in Perspective
I love comparisons and unit conversions. Most of the times they are fun. For example, if Daniel Day-Lewis touched an …
Category Archives: Biology
The Snake Bite That Turns You Into A Jello Mold
The Russell’s Viper is one of the deadliest snakes in all of Asia because it can give your blood the …
SkyMall Bugs Me
This post originally appeared on Randi.org SkyMall bugs me. It bugs me not just because it sells a helmet lined …
The Snake and The Preacher: Skepticism on Primetime TV
This post originally appeared on Randi.org Maybe a supreme being is saving you from rattlesnake venom, but it’s easier to …
The Last Thing the Squirrel Saw
This post originally appeared on Scientific American We have to assume it was a squirrel, but we know how it …
Of the Creation Persuasion
This article was originally published on Scientific American The Earth is flat. A full moon leads to more crime. Humans …
The Cheetah: Nature’s Speed Machine
This is perhaps the most elegantly employed infographic I have seen. Also, cheetahs are flippin’ awesome. Infographic designed by Jacob …
The Cutest Response to Creationism
Sometimes it is necessary to take a few steps back and look at the big picture. In the evolution/creationism debate, …
Python eats alligator while it is still alive
While I expected the snake to kill the alligator before eating it, as some constrictor snakes listen to a prey’s …
Freaky fungus turns a tarantula into a work of art
This unfortunate arachnid is infected with Cordyceps, a parasitic fungus that replaces its host’s tissue with its own. Cordyceps fungi …
If we evolved from monkeys…{Infographic}
Hopefully the above infographic clears up this woefully common question.
This is What Evolution Is {Image}
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The “Tornado in a Junkyard” Fallacy
As a promoter of science literacy and therefore the theory of evolution, I often get some push back from those …
The Amazing Zebrafish
Biologists study the incredibly useful zebrafish to learn about everything from evolution to embryonic development (and sometimes a bit of …
Researcher gets 15,000 mosquito bites a year, for science {Video}
Researcher Steve Schutz offers his arm to a legion of hungry, lab-bred mosquitoes everyday (having been bitten over 150,000 times …
Why Does Your Nose Get Stuffy One Nostril at a Time?
Because your nostrils split their workload. Throughout the day, they each take breaks in a process of alternating congestion and …
How do cats survive falls from great heights?
Recently, a small cat living in Boston survived a 19-storey fall from an apartment building. It was surely a bit …
Electric eels aren’t the only electric animals
If you ask anyone to think of an “electric” animal, it is pretty likely that they will think of the …
There is no “tongue map” of taste
One of the many oft-repeated myths about the human body is that there are specific regions on the tongue which …
Some Turtles Are Terrifying
The leatherback sea turtle is the largest turtle, and the third largest living reptile, in the world. It’s a docile …
