Tag: Illustra Media
Crying “Chance, Chance” When There Is No Chance
Note the artfully deployed passive voice. One-way traffic “was finally counteracted by the launch of the first artificial satellites.” Who counteracted it?
“Merry Christmas from the Moon”: Recalling a Historic Anniversary
As sort of a holiday card in video form, our friends at Illustra Media offer this about the Apollo 8 and its famous Christmas Eve message of 1968.
Encore Performances in the Design of Life
News from Princeton discusses the work of Tom Smith and Bridgett vonHoldt, who have solved a “long-standing finch beak mystery.” The answer turned out to be Mendelian, not Darwinian.
Evolutionary Relationships In Echolocation — An Obsession that Smothers Wonder
Perhaps it is awe-inspiring to evolutionary biologists to try to work a puzzle, trying to find how everything is connected by common ancestry.
Awe at Echolocation? Nah, Convergence Again
The passionate focus on evolutionary relationships in biology papers tends to obscure awe at the wonders in life.