I'm turning my blog over to Claire Drysdale, an undergraduate at UNC, Chapel Hill. After using SimUText as a student, Claire contacted us to see if we …
Mitosis Explored – SimBio’s new tutorial
If you want your students to remember the stages of mitosis, the above mnemonic device would probably be useful. But does rote memorization of the …
Male Antelope Lie To Get Sex
Earlier I mentioned examples of critters that lie to get what they want. Last week in American Naturalist Jakob Bro-Jørgensen and Wiline M. Pangle …
Octopus Aces Physics Homework
Here's a question from my daughter's physics homework. A balloon with a weight tied to it just barely floats. If the balloon is pushed down under the …
Survival of the Fittest? Not Always.
Are the fittest always the ones who survive? I'm thinking of "fitness" in its everyday meaning, not its technical meaning. We might expect that the …
E-Textbooks and the Blind
If you are blind and studying any of the sciences, there are a lot of obstacles in your way. One of them is the textbook. Somehow, you must get the …
Language, Lying, and Evolution
I recently received an email from a cognitive psychologist asking whether it is plausible that human use of language for deception is an adaptation. …
Is a picture worth 1,000 words?
We all know that making someone a drawing is a great way to explain scientific ideas. Reviews of textbooks will talk about the quality of the …
Genomic Analysis of Identical Twins Finds Few Differences
There's an intriguing paper in today's issue of Nature. Sergio E. Baranzini and colleagues looked at three pairs of identical twins, two female pairs …
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