Biology
Chimps and Tools
These chimps seem very smart indeed. Especially the women. I guess I'm not surprised after all we have read this term about the intelligence of animals, and chimps in particular. I'm always fretting about eating meat, and ironically this made me feel better because it shows that meat eating is just a natural thing. It seems like so far, chimps haven't gotten caught up in neurotic guilt cycles.
Colossal Squid
I read an article in the New Yorker years ago about colossal sguid. Fishermen have been saying that they've seen them for years. Marine biologists scoffed at the idea and said the fishermen were just hallucinating, that this was merely the stuff of folklore like mermaids. When I read that article, they still hadn't caught one. In 2004 they finally did, and this is one is even bigger. Who knows, maybe mermaids are next...
- Interactions Among Organisms
INTERACTIONS AMONG ORGANISMSSymbiotic Strategies http://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/nat08.living.eco.humeco.lpsymstra/ Read ?OVERVIEW? and answer the following questions:1. Write a sentence (using your own words) explaining...
- The Fossil Record- Evolution Part 2
How Evolution Works ? Evolution Part 2Ms. Carter Evidence for Evolutionhttp://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/tdc02.sci.life.div.lp_evid/ Video: Becoming a FossilRead the Background Essay DESCRIBE how fossil are formed and give examplesWatch the videoWhat...
- Week Six
Living and Non-Living Systems This subject threatens to become very intense and arcane. I can't say I fully understand the autopoetic definition of living systems. I really don't understand the role of cognition in it. That being said, I'll...
- Week Four
A Drug For Everything? It seems like that is the way that we are headed. Clearly, there's an alarming trend toward medicalizing everything, even personality, and then making nearly every aspect of the human condition "treatable". Looked at from this...
- Week Two: Evo Devo Thoughts
I was genuinely surprised to learn about the role of master control genes in the evolutionary process. I always thought (as many people do, I think) that the development of a new trait required a mutation in a gene. And, honestly, I could never figure...
Biology
Week 13: The Science of Life
Chimps and Tools
These chimps seem very smart indeed. Especially the women. I guess I'm not surprised after all we have read this term about the intelligence of animals, and chimps in particular. I'm always fretting about eating meat, and ironically this made me feel better because it shows that meat eating is just a natural thing. It seems like so far, chimps haven't gotten caught up in neurotic guilt cycles.
Colossal Squid
I read an article in the New Yorker years ago about colossal sguid. Fishermen have been saying that they've seen them for years. Marine biologists scoffed at the idea and said the fishermen were just hallucinating, that this was merely the stuff of folklore like mermaids. When I read that article, they still hadn't caught one. In 2004 they finally did, and this is one is even bigger. Who knows, maybe mermaids are next...
- Interactions Among Organisms
INTERACTIONS AMONG ORGANISMSSymbiotic Strategies http://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/nat08.living.eco.humeco.lpsymstra/ Read ?OVERVIEW? and answer the following questions:1. Write a sentence (using your own words) explaining...
- The Fossil Record- Evolution Part 2
How Evolution Works ? Evolution Part 2Ms. Carter Evidence for Evolutionhttp://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/tdc02.sci.life.div.lp_evid/ Video: Becoming a FossilRead the Background Essay DESCRIBE how fossil are formed and give examplesWatch the videoWhat...
- Week Six
Living and Non-Living Systems This subject threatens to become very intense and arcane. I can't say I fully understand the autopoetic definition of living systems. I really don't understand the role of cognition in it. That being said, I'll...
- Week Four
A Drug For Everything? It seems like that is the way that we are headed. Clearly, there's an alarming trend toward medicalizing everything, even personality, and then making nearly every aspect of the human condition "treatable". Looked at from this...
- Week Two: Evo Devo Thoughts
I was genuinely surprised to learn about the role of master control genes in the evolutionary process. I always thought (as many people do, I think) that the development of a new trait required a mutation in a gene. And, honestly, I could never figure...