Its really hard to colonize someplace when you send people there, they contract malaria and they die. Quinine was the first effective treatment of malaria. After that, Africa stopped being the “white man’s grave” and another British colony.
Read the full post »Well, in terms of the psychology experiment, I definitely was correct in my previous post regarding the argumentative factor of the Echinoderms Vs. Mollusks.
In fact, there is even a blog response by Kevin at Deep Sea News regarding my cavalier attitude on the coolness of snails. After he mentions Endosymbiotic bacteria, I must admit, [...]
I’ve heard so many people knowingly talk about how the Human Population growth is exponential and how there are way too many of us. I just want to finally correct this long standing assumption of exponential growth.
The Human Population is NOT growing exponentially.
In population mathematics, growth rate is measured by the formula b-d=r. The rate [...]
Plenty of people have heard about the advances in finding green fuels, like getting fuel from soybeans or corn, but now research is continuing on the implementation of certain types of algae (pond scum) as an alternative fuel source.
Fifty percent of the weight of algae is oil, and they are incredibly fast growing (which can [...]
My brother sent me some interesting blog posts regarding Echinoderms vs. Mollusks and which ones are better and why.
I was at first wondering how this argument starting showing up over the internet and decided to test out its argumentative quality in a semi-sorta psych experiment with one of my science minded friends.
Debates are fun and [...]
This is the biojournalism.com companion podcast for 3-29-2008. The podcast is published weekly and covers the science news from the past week in a quiz-style format. As always, we welcome your comments below or email us: podcast@biojournalism.com.
Here are this week’s contents:
Antarctic glaciers are melting.
Squid beaks are hard… and soft.
Schizophrenia is linked to genetic mutations.
Hit the [...]
Read the full post »I was thinking that exercise would perhaps just force the cold out of my body, make me well faster, even if I was killing my lungs with my coughing. So I raced Saturday and Sunday and spent sunday night and monday morning completely miserable. I’m still getting over my cold, so perhaps my idea didn’t work.
Was I helping or harming myself? According to an article in American Fitness, “New research shows you can put as much effort into a workout when you have a cold as when you are healthy.” However, it warns against exercising if you have a fever.
Read the full post »This is the biojournalism.com podcast for 3/22/2008. We cover the science news from the past week in a quiz style format. We’d love to hear your comments: leave them below, or email us: podcast@biojournalism.com
Contents:
Xprize foundation announces another 10M dollar prize
Toxins have been found in consumer-labled organic goods
Gecko tails have more use than meets the eye [...]
Kallen is currently pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Biology and Journalism at the University of Oregon and, of course, writing a blog.