Tag: Australia
Make Like a Scorpion, and Other Arachnid Designs
Long shunned for their bites and toxins, arachnids are gaining respect for biomimetic inspiration.
Media in a Swoon over Death Doctor and His Suicide Machine
The man is thoroughly reprehensible. No wonder the mainstream media is attracted to him like a magnet to metal.
New Bird Migration Secrets Revealed
Advances in live data logging show how birds do it: get from here to there. Some surprises were uncovered in recent experiments.
Darwin on Trial — As Fresh and Relevant as Ever
Because of Phillip Johnson’s leadership no informed person will ever again honestly say that Darwin’s theory flows straight from the data.
Jerry Coyne on Our “Divinity Sense Organs”
Sir David Attenborough, an agnostic, invokes a rather nice metaphor about a termite mound.