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MicroRNAs: A New Clue About Octopus Intelligence?
While octopus brains are very different from vertebrate brains, they share with vertebrates, a huge number of microRNAs.
Scientific Racism and the Confederate Flag
Alexander H. Stephens was Vice President of the Confederacy. In 1861 he delivered an oration justifying slavery and rebellion on scientific grounds.
Elk Goes Down; Darwin Breathes a Sigh of Relief
What is the evolutionary argument against unapologetic racism and the supremacy of whatever race can climb to the top?
Turning Our Dead into Fertilizer
These methods send a powerful symbolic statement that we are essentially nothing more than carbon atoms gathered temporarily in a rational and animated form.
James Tour: “Molecules Don’t Care About Life”
Blowing smoke is what science media and even scientists themselves do a great deal of the time when they talk about the origin of life.