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Scribbles Blog Hop
Today is National Show Your Journal Day! Didn’t you know? I’m participating in the Scribbles Blog Hop. Do you have a journal? Do you write in a journal? Do you write in someone else’s journal? Or do you just have …
The Writer’s Forensics Blog: Transient Global Amnesia
Do you need some temporary but believable amnesia for your fiction? In this post, the Writer’s Forensics Blog hosts Dr. Strobl on the topic of Transient Global Amnesia. Transient Global Amnesia is a condition of full amnesia that leaves the …
Wired: Physicists Find Way to Stop Coffee Rings
Ever wonder why a drop of coffee dries in a ring and not a drop-like circle? Wired has an article about physicists at the University of Pennsylvania who have done great imaging research to find out. From the article; ‘So …
Rare Ladybird Spider Released In U.K. Preservation Area
Wired has a post on Britain’s rarest spider. All Rights Reserved Maarten Bos This stunning spider was released into the Arne reserve in Dorset by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (hmmm… ironic much?). The spider was near …
Narrative-Collective Assimilation
Today another writing-science crossover post. I like these. They make me smile. Livia Blackburne has a great analysis of an article by psychologists Shira Gabriel and Ariana Young. They have done research on what they call narrative-collective assimilation, which is …
Move Your Food–With Salt!
DISCLAIMER 1: This post is not for the squeamish. DISCLAIMER 2: I am not a vegetarian and I do eat animal products. I do not condone killing animals for pure amusement of humans. The proceedings below are bordering on that. …
Tarantulas–A Heart To Love?
In a surprise discovery, it may be that tarantulas have a double heart beat. Gavin Merrifield et al. at Edinburgh University imaged for the first time spiders in a MRI that routinely used for mice and rats. From the press …
Powered By Osteons: How To Section Teeth
I’ve done a lot of sectioning of tissue in my life, primarily when I worked in a pathology diagnostics lab. Working there I got every type of biopsy and surgery extraction you can imagine in for analysis. If you work …
Wired: Lost Rainbow Toad Found After 87 Years
These kinds of reports make me happy. I think it puts into perspective the fact that we only know of the tip of the species iceberg and unknown species are discovered frequently. The article lists some species that have been …
Antibody Profiling: The New Identification Technique?
The Writer’s Forensics Blog has a post on some very interesting news. Every person is exposed to an unbelievable array of microbes during their lifetime. All bacteria, virusses and lesser known intruders trigger our defensive system: our immune system. Our …
