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Here in Oregon, we get a lot of rain and fall leaves all at once. Often they leave sidewalk stains that are like ghosts of their past selves. But why?

I was reading a scientific article on how Bison are a keystone species in the Konza prairie (located in northeastern Kansas) and the various effects they have on the ecosystem there from eating dominant grasses and thereby increasing biodiversity, to a direct effect on the nitrogen cycle with physical landscape changes (wallows) in there for [...]

I used to think protein only meant things like chicken. It was just a classification for dividing food up when using a food pyramid. Darn nutrition. However, anyone familiar with cellular biology knows that proteins are a lot cooler than that. Proteins are biomolecules. They are strings of amino acids with peptide bonds.
I think my [...]

I admit it. I am a facebook frequenter.
Therefore, I manage to catch some of their ads once in a while. Most of them I ignore, but this was an advertisement for a shirt that said “YAY, Serotonin!”
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What a wonderful geeky shirt. I had to click on the advertisement. The words [...]

As I pack to get ready for my Scuba certification dives this weekend, I cannot help but reflect on the amount of science that goes into scuba diving. In fact, without science, a lot more divers would be seriously injured.
So here is a reflection on various aspects of science in Scuba….
Excited for Scuba! Photo [...]

Last night as I was writing a long paper, my brother was chopping onions, and his eyes were streaming. “They’ve never affected me this badly before!”. I took over chopping for a bit while he recovered and was soon in the same state.
His curiousity was afire though, so he looked up the causes of onion [...]

Doctors prescribe antibiotics to people with bacterial infections. In a oversimplified explanation, the antibiotics kill the evil bacteria. After most of the bacteria are killed, your symptoms go away, and your body can beat the rest of the bacteria into submission. After all, your body’s immune system is a powerful thing. It just needed a little antibiotic help.