Category: Science
Steve Laufmann: Is Biology Engineering?
Laufmann describes how his work as a systems engineer relates to the red hot field of systems biology.
MicroRNAs: A New Clue About Octopus Intelligence?
While octopus brains are very different from vertebrate brains, they share with vertebrates, a huge number of microRNAs.
Fossil Friday: Purgatorius and the Abrupt Origin of Primates
Primates not only appeared suddenly, but their different subgroups of lemurs, tarsier, and simians all appeared at about the same time.
Educating “Professor Dave” on the Fossil Record and Genetics
Farina says that if you want to make “creationists’ head explode” you just have to mention that reptile scales and bird feathers are made of the same keratin.
Move Over, Keats? Here Is AI-Generated Poetry
This poetry is bad to the point of hilarity, much as some movies are so bad that they’re “good.”