Oct
26
2008
1

Evolution in Action: Fruit Flies Evolve Low Oxygen Tolerance in the Lab

In a cool new study in PLoS Genetics, through artificial selection researchers have allowed fruit flies (Drosophila) to evolve tolerance to normally lethal low levels of Oxygen.
To many scientists, this type of research will not be seen as that impressive, as a general finding. Artificial selection has been occurring for millennia, and it is the [...]

Oct
24
2008
52

Sarah Palin: a Blithering Idiot Who Could Destroy Science and Medicine

In one of the single most maddening, ignorant, unfathomably idiotic statements (out of many) I have heard spew through Sarah Palin’s lips, the candidate for the second highest position in the free world uttered a single phrase today that could utterly destroy the progress of medicine and scientific understanding.
In her very first policy speech, Palin [...]

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