There was a very cool article in the NY Times science section last week about mirrors that I’ve been meaning to blog about. So I’m finally getting around to it.
The piece, by Natalie Angier, is chock full of interesting tidbits. For example, scientists use mirrors to study how the brain creates and recognizes [...]
Archive for July, 2008
On my never ending search for weird science stories, I came across a slide show titled “Towers of Food” in the online version of the NYT science section. The slide show features sketches and renderings of futuristic urban farms occupying 30-story towers.
The concept of vertical farming has been developed by researchers and students at [...]
I came across this headline in “Science News” recently: “Farm Life Turns Male Toads Female.” Here’s the skinny. Scientists at the University of Florida have found that toads living near agricultural sites–ranging from small farms to major agro-industrial complexes–tend to exhibit signs of intersexuality, as in having both male and female [...]
Here’s a good argument against intelligent design: life is just too weird and random to be the product of an overarching, ordered plan. Take, for example, the case of the Labord’s chamelon–a lizard residing in Southwestern Madagascar. This lizard incubates in its egg for eight to nine months, then hatches and develops very [...]