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  • Leonardo's gears
    The *Madrid Codices I and II* are two collections of *Leonardo da Vinci*'s manuscripts found in a collection in the *National Library of Madrid* at the end...
    1 week ago from Doc Madhattan
  • Timeless Figures, #2: Werner Heisenberg
    Werner Heisenberg was a good man who deluded himself into thinking he was working for a good cause. That cause was not working for the Nazis but maintain...
    2 weeks ago from The Curious Wavefunction
  • The Hayflick Limit: why humans can't live forever
    A scientific legend, Leonard Hayflick, passed away at the beginning of August. Most non-scientists probably don’t recognize his name, but he made a rem...
    1 month ago from Genomics, Medicine, and Pseudoscience
  • The Art in the Random
    The Art in the Random Art happens in our minds. Creation only requires that we recognize it. Random patterns take shape, and we see an image. The specta...
    2 months ago from Pleiotropy
  • Course Corrections
    I've been teaching a course for the last 15+ years. I love this course because I conceived it and brought it to fruition. Since its inception, it has bee...
    4 months ago from Angry by Choice
  • Friday Fabulous Flower - Bottle brush buckeye
    Not too many plants blossom in the middle of summer. But the bottle brush buckeye is reliable shade tolerating plant. Not only that but once establish...
    1 year ago from The Phytophactor
  • The Site is Dead, Long Live the Site
    I'm moving house. Over the past few years, Blogger has become somewhat less user-friendly behind the scenes. Nothing major, and certainly nothing I'm going...
    2 years ago from Catalogue of Organisms
  • The Site is Dead, Long Live the Site
    I'm moving house. Over the past few years, Blogger has become somewhat less user-friendly behind the scenes. Nothing major, and certainly nothing I'm going...
    2 years ago from Variety of Life
  • Does mathematics carry human biases?
    This week, a conversation flared up on Twitter on whether mathematics can carry human biases, and what such a possibility could even mean. The spark was...
    3 years ago from PLEKTIX
  • The Alvarez and the Crater of Doom
    *"It was nothing of this earth, but a piece of the great outside; and as such dowered with outside properties and obedient to outside laws." * *"The Colou...
    4 years ago from History of Geology
  • Thinking about a post-pandemic world
    I've been trying to think carefully about what our world will be like once the current pandemic is over. Most people are rightly focused on the current si...
    4 years ago from RRResearch
  • Easter fires: Rainbow demonstration rises again
    It the the custom in many Christian denominations to light a Pascal fire at their Easter rites. For Catholics, this is done after sunset on Saturday night...
    5 years ago from The Culture of Chemistry
  • A New Placodont from the Late Triassic of China
    *Wang, W., Li, C., Scheyer, T. M., and Zhao, L. 2019. A new species of Cyamodus (Placodontia, Sauropterygia) from the early Late Triassic of south-west C...
    5 years ago from Chinleana
  • Bryophyte Herbarium Survey
    Are you #Herbarium Staff? We recently began a multi-year research study examining how bryophyte specimens are stored and organized at scientific institutio...
    6 years ago from Moss Plants and More
  • WE MOVED!
    *DEAREST READERS, * *THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT THROUGHOUT THE YEARS. WE WILL BE DEPARTING FROM THE FIELD OF SCIENCE NETWORK. * *FIND US AT OUR NEW BLOGGI...
    8 years ago from Games with Words
  • Update: Tree of Eukaryotes (parasitology edition)
    There arose a need for a new tree for a parasitology meeting, so after almost five years, I finally updated the tree of eukaryotes. There are still things ...
    9 years ago from Skeptic Wonder
  • Growing the kidney: re-blogged from Science Bitez
    Hi guys, I've set-up a new science/education blog called* Science Bitez *so I'll be blogging from there from now on! Here's my first Science Bitez post: On ...
    9 years ago from The View from a Microbiologist
  • Goodbye FoS, thanks for all the laughs
    Moving house again… Well almost, moving addresses anyway. It wasn’t that long ago I moved from Disease of the Week to here at Disease Prone to take advanta...
    13 years ago from Disease Prone
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