Powdered wombat guts and other sources of feelings of wellbeing
Posted in Misc on Jun 1st, 2008
Here’s a fine article in the New York Times on the importance of understanding science. That heavyweight publication should be rolled up and used to whack Andrew Clover for this in the Sunday Times
At school, I did eight years of science, and I’m proud to say I didn’t take in a single word, even [...]
Posted in Misc on Dec 9th, 2007
There’s a fine article in the New Yorker about retroviruses and their role in human evolution. It explains why we don’t lay eggs any more, among other things. And the explanation is beautiful and elegant.
The idea that paleovirology will shed light on our evolutionary past is a blast. That we carry a lot of DNA [...]
Wombat Diet
Powdered wombat guts and other sources of feelings of wellbeing
There are 171 Posts and 222 Comments so far.