Category Archive: Science & Nature

Jan 16 2012

Finally! Apoptosis explained, using nifty animation.

I’m sure you’ve spent many a night lying awake in bed wondering about your immune system; how it works and what would happen when one of the ‘soldiers’ in your immune system’s army encounters a diseased cell, right? Like, how exactly do your innards cope with these rogue, infected cells? Well, Drew Berry has created some nifty …

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Dec 20 2011

Pale Blue Dot

On this day in 1996, American astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist and author Carl Sagan passed away. Sagan is known for the award-winning 1980 television series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, which he narrated and co-wrote, a series I remember watching avidly in my youth. Along with David Attenborough, Sagan was one of my heroes as I was …

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Dec 05 2011

How can anyone hate spiders after watching this cute couple?

Oct 13 2011

Welcome, Pharyngulistas!

If you’re dropping by from PZ Myers’ blog Pharyngula, after he posted my article on why I’m an atheist, then welcome! And this is where I’d originally posted that article back in 2009.

Sep 02 2009

Hey, I'm a star! Well, more of a comet really…

A friend of mine was working out at the gym this week, and as she was pumping it up she saw a clip on the Discovery Channel on one of the TV screens. It was an episode of one of the Daily Planet’s Science + The City shows hosted by Alan Nursall, in which he …

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