Showing posts with label biology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label biology. Show all posts
Sunday, April 13, 2025

James Weiss’s Hidden World

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Even though we moved from Travis County to Hays County, I maintain a City of Austin Public Library card because one branch is very convenien...
Monday, January 23, 2023

The Morning Sky

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Stepping outside with the cat after her breakfast, I stopped to take in the sky. I felt comfort from the familiar sight and regret for not b...
Sunday, January 15, 2023

Microscopy (again)

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Ahead of a medical procedure, I was cautioned that I will not be doing any bending and lifting for a couple of months or more. So, I packed ...
Tuesday, July 19, 2022

ANDROMEDA, STRAINED

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I accidentally borrowed the 2008 remake of The Andromeda Strain from our city library. Long ago, a fter seeing the 1970 movie, I read the bo...
Tuesday, March 15, 2022

Microscopy

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 I took up a new hobby. I bought microscopes from ShopGoodwill.com and some prepared slides from Amazon. I was happy to be able to take some...
Tuesday, October 18, 2016

A Moment of Science Fact as Science Fiction

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The picture that appeared on Reuters.com was startling familiar.  "My god! Someone built the Time Tunnel!" I thought.  But, it wa...
Sunday, May 3, 2015

Evolution vs. God

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The premise is that Darwinian evolution is unproved and unprovable. It is accepted on faith, passed to students on the authority of profess...
Saturday, May 10, 2014

Watson’s Double Helix: Doing Science and Writing About It

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The Double Helix (1968) is James D. Watson’s very personal account of how he and Francis Crick worked out the structure of DNA th...
Monday, February 17, 2014

Fossils and Behaviors

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Sub-adult American alligator  in Pearl River Delta, Mississippi.  Photo by Kristine Gingras  from the journal artlcle. Crocodile...
Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Epigenetics and Evolution

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The mechanism of evolution has not been discovered.  No consistent theory exists. Random mutations adapting to changing environments was the...
Sunday, December 1, 2013

Epigenetics

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It is not surprising that we share 98.9% of our genome with chimpanzees.  It is challenging to consider that we have about the same number ...
Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Bob Swanson and Genentech

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Money is a culture medium for growing viable enterprises into self-sustaining engines of creation.  Bob Swanson was 29 when he provided...