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Let's talk about contingency in the history of life on Earth. Stephen Jay Gould, in "Wonderful Life" asked the question: what if we could 'rewind' the tape of life to

The Chinese started using cinnabar colored lacquer to dye earthenware & ceramic pots into intense red works of art. The lacquer likely protected the user from the worst of mercury

Fennec foxes gigantic ears serve dual functions:1. Temperature control in their native Sahara2. They can hear their prey (insect or small mammal) in their burrows. The Fennec fox is the

Let's talk about the Shmoo, and how it's become part of multiple fields of science & medicine as well as being a global cultural phenomenon.It was a creature invented in

Controversially True Statement:WILD HORSES ARE *EXTINCT*.It sounds a bit odd, but at present there are many DOMESTICATED horse populations, a number of FERAL populations, but only one proposed extant WILD

“High in the North in a land called Svithjod there is a mountain. It is 100 miles long & 100 miles high & once every 1000 years a little bird

Isaac Asimov's essay "The Relativity of Wrong" explains an important fact about Flat Earthers, evolution denialists and other anti-science denialist movements:they're *very nearly* right.A flat Earth would have curvature of

100 years ago in June, Galveston, TX had an outbreak of bubonic plague.The "third pandemic" of plague started in Yunnan China in mid to late 1800's, and spread around the

Oh boy. Do you guys remember when I tweeted about testing windows earlier today?Very relevant for this pre-print about false negative rates in SARS-CoV-2 testing!https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.05.20053355v1.full.pdf The authors repor

Let's talk about *window period* and how it makes everything in diagnostics complicated and difficult.Window period is the time between infection and when a diagnostic test becomes useful. This is