Haldane, On Being the Right Size
december 2009 by maciej
Comparative anatomy is largely the story of the struggle to increase surface in proportion to volume
classic
essay
bio
anatomy
scaling
december 2009 by maciej
E. coli long-term evolution experiment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
october 2009 by maciej
Particularly fascinating are the bacteria that evolved to eat citrate
bio
evolution
microbiology
experiment
lenski
october 2009 by maciej
'Marathon mice' elucidate little-known muscle type
august 2008 by maciej
Welcome to the next class of performance-enhancing drugs
fitness
sport
muscle
bio
august 2008 by maciej
Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
september 2007 by maciej
I want a personal piper
wwii
commando
bio
scotland
september 2007 by maciej
Squirrels wield a hot, secret weapon - life - 13 August 2007 - New Scientist
august 2007 by maciej
tail heating to deter rattlesnakes, who see IR
bio
eco
snake
neat
august 2007 by maciej
It's about: Thermoregulation
april 2007 by maciej
journey to a magical land of ha
wtf
thermoregulation
bio
art
nutscode
video
april 2007 by maciej
HIGH PRESSURE CRYONICS
march 2007 by maciej
"The problem of removing a human brain from the skull while keeping it viable could be difficult, but doing-so quickly at low temperature might eliminate the need for constant perfusion."
cryonics
physics
bio
chem
pressure
crank
march 2007 by maciej
Sidewalk Socrates (NYT magazine)
february 2007 by maciej
on Sidney Morgenbesser
philosophy
profile
bio
morgenbesser
february 2007 by maciej
Flying Saucers Explained
january 2007 by maciej
interesting speculation on certain kinds of UFOs as fauna
space
bio
exobio
alien
ufo
scifi
aviation
january 2007 by maciej
Thanksgiving, Turkey, and Tryptophan
november 2006 by maciej
Debunking the turkey-as-tryptophan-bomb myth. " I suspect substitution of a 10-lb Thanksgiving hamburger for your turkey will have the same result."
chem
bio
biochem
turkey
thanksgiving
received_ideas
debunk
eat
serotonin
tryptophan
november 2006 by maciej
Circadiana
november 2006 by maciej
circadian rhythms science blog
blog
science
bio
sleep
interesting
november 2006 by maciej
Ibogaine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
november 2006 by maciej
"The most studied long-term therapeutic effect is that ibogaine seems to catalyze partial or complete interruption of addiction to opioids."
chem
bio
drug
opiate
addiction
november 2006 by maciej
Jane Goodall In Beijing
october 2006 by maciej
notes from her recent lecture
beijing
goodall
self-promotion
chimpanzee
forest
eco
bio
lecture
notes
china
africa
leakey
october 2006 by maciej
Pere David's deer, Milu
october 2006 by maciej
However, on May 17, 1865, Pere David convinced the guards to allow him to look once over the wall. As luck would have it, a herd of these deer happened to walk by at that very moment - a moment which would amaze both the missionary and the scientific wor
eco
animal
zoo
endangered
china
deer
bio
october 2006 by maciej
Григорьев, Аполлон Александрович — Википедия
october 2006 by maciej
comprehensive russian wikipedia article on A.A. Grigor'ev
grigor'ev
poetry
bio
wikipedia
lit
russian
october 2006 by maciej
Guardian Unlimited | Weekend | Genetic sexual attraction
october 2006 by maciej
Interesting speculation that the people you live with before the age of six or so trigger a natural kind of incest taboo, whether or not they're relatives. Conversely, some blood relatives who meet for the first time late in life will really want to get
anthro
bio
sex
incest
soc
adoption
psychology
development
october 2006 by maciej
The Levitator - controversy over publication of new Mao bio in taiwan
august 2006 by maciej
details on accusations and counter-accusations about whether a bigwig kuomintang general was a commie
china
politics
kuomintang
taiwan
mao
history
controversy
bio
august 2006 by maciej
The Loom : A Dead Dog Lives On (Inside New Dogs)
august 2006 by maciej
dog tumor propagates its way into immortality, other dogs
bio
med
weird_science
cancer
cool
august 2006 by maciej
Hearts Still Scarred 40 Years After China's Upheaval - New York Times
june 2006 by maciej
"where are they now" article on two Cultural Revolution figures
china
politics
mao
communism
cultural_revolution
bio
repression
june 2006 by maciej
Black Sapote: The Chocolate Pudding Fruit
april 2006 by maciej
persimmon relative that tastes like chocolate pudding
fruit
central_america
bio
plant
want
eat
april 2006 by maciej
The Risks Digest Volume 24: Issue 24
april 2006 by maciej
nice short first-person account of hypoxia training
aviation
risk
bio
climbing
april 2006 by maciej
Jon Lee Anderson on Hugo Chavez (2001)
april 2006 by maciej
excellent New Yorker profile of Chavez from well before the 2002 coup attempt
chavez
venezuela
bio
profile
jon_lee_anderson
new_yorker
2001
april 2006 by maciej
The old way of raising cattle is now the new way - better for the animals and better for your table
april 2006 by maciej
Atlantic Monthly article on grass-fed beef raisers in the US
beef
argentina
eco
bio
hazard
us
april 2006 by maciej
The Intoxicating Birds of New Guinea - National Zoo| FONZ
april 2006 by maciej
first known example of a poisonous bird
toxin
new_guinea
bio
eco
birds
april 2006 by maciej
Stung - insects and the ways they hurt us
april 2006 by maciej
"There I was, 10 feet up a tree, holding a bag of live wasps in one hand, basically blinded with pain."
entomology
bug
ow
pain
bio
eco
cool
april 2006 by maciej
Charles Darwin on Tierra del Fuego
march 2006 by maciej
chapter from the Voyage of the Beagle
darwin
bio
history
memoir
tierra_del_fuego
patagonia
chile
argentina
eco
march 2006 by maciej
Beaver links
march 2006 by maciej
colleciton of beaver info, much of it highly pro-beaverist
beaver
tierra_del_fuego
eco
canada
bio
march 2006 by maciej
List of Invasive Species in Patagonia
march 2006 by maciej
in Spanish, with latin names
es
eco
patagonia
argentina
bio
invasive
march 2006 by maciej
The Antarctic Sun: Dry Valleys flood
march 2006 by maciej
an unusual year of high temperatures and its effect on the strange antarctic dry valleys
antarctica
geo
weather
bio
march 2006 by maciej
Martin Caparros - por Alan Pauls
february 2006 by maciej
article on argentinian author Martín Caparrós [in Spanish]
argentina
lit
es
crit
bio
february 2006 by maciej
Magellanic Penguin Migration
february 2006 by maciej
Dr. Klemens Putz tells you everything you want to know about the peregrinations of the Magellanic penguin
penguin
bio
birds
ha
marine
argentina
eco
february 2006 by maciej
Birds of Argentina
january 2006 by maciej
very comprehensive site with photos
argentina
birds
bio
eco
reference
photo
january 2006 by maciej
frontline: modern meat: interviews: michael pollan | PBS
december 2005 by maciej
excellent interview on beef factory farming practices in the US
meat
us
eco
farm
bio
agribusiness
interview
pollan
december 2005 by maciej
Ilya Ilf, Yevgeny Petrov
november 2005 by maciej
Biographical sketch in English
bio
ilf-petrov
lit
russian
november 2005 by maciej
Сейфуллина Лидия Николаевна (1889–1954)
november 2005 by maciej
Bio of the Soviet author Lidya Seifullina
lit
sov
russian
bio
cccp
november 2005 by maciej
Graphic images of parasites
september 2005 by maciej
exhaustive but horribly-designed site
reference
insect
bio
september 2005 by maciej
Patuxent Bird Identification InfoCenter
september 2005 by maciej
excellent if terse reference
birds
reference
bio
september 2005 by maciej
New York City Audubon Society - list of NYC birds
september 2005 by maciej
very comprehensive but for unfathomable reasons they don't have photos
bird
nyc
bio
eco
reference
september 2005 by maciej
Erowid LSD Vault : LSD Related Death of Elephant in 1962
september 2005 by maciej
bizarre experiment in giving an elephant acid
drugs
bio
wtf
ha
september 2005 by maciej
CSIRO PUBLISHING - marine insects
september 2005 by maciej
very short abstract mentions coral treaders and other (~160) species of oceanic insect. Nothing else on Google for these intriguing pelagic bugs
marine
insect
huh
eco
bio
september 2005 by maciej
Human Botfly, Torsalo, Dermatobia hominis
september 2005 by maciej
bot flies that parasatize humans
insect
tropics
eco
bio
september 2005 by maciej
Tree Squirrel (Rodent) Bot Fly 'Cuterebra emasculator' (Diptera)
september 2005 by maciej
nasty fly that parasitizes squirrels
insect
eco
reference
bio
september 2005 by maciej
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