Tag: environment
A Crowd-Sourced Solar Eclipse Experiment
The Sensor Logger phone app can record and store the readings from any combination of your phone’s sensors.
War on Human Exceptionalism Turns to Tool Use
As the academic war on human exceptionalism motors on, researchers’ thinking sometimes shorts out — and they don’t even notice.
Epigenetics: Performing the Genome
Epigenetics is surpassing genetics in distinction, just as the pianist gets the applause and not the piano.
Natural Selection Subtracts, It Doesn’t Add — And That Matters
In the wild, all organisms must live within their niche. There are no wild polar bears in Arizona, and no iguanas in Alaska.
A New Look at Natural Selection
If you are a pine tree, you need to have antifreeze in your needles if you are rooted beyond certain latitudes or elevations.