Category Science

Science Saturday

I’ve been reading The Art of Subtext, a book about fiction and subtext by Charles Baxter. In a passage I read last night, Baxter writes ...

Science Saturday

[Note: While the timestamp on this post is January 13, 12:59AM, it was actually posted EST, 11:59PM on January 12. Technically, it is Saturday. ...

Science Saturday

Yes, But Could They Do a Triple Lutz? Archaeological evidence shows that bone skates (skates made of animal bones) are the oldest human-powered ...

Science Saturday

Could a Monkey Really Do Your Job? Boxer and Feinstein, two female rhesus macaque monkeys presumably named after California’s U.S. ...

U2: Out of Africa

My geno-journey is complete. Not a big surprise, but I come from the haplogroup U2. Here’s what is known: Family Tree DNA’s ...

Science Saturday

It’s All in Your Head. Diagnostic testing for multiple sclerosis has been notoriously difficult and not entirely reliable over the years. ...

Science Saturday

Seeing stars. CNET reported earlier this week that Google Earth has a new feature called Sky, which prompted me to finally download Google Earth ...

Science Saturday

I’m taking a geno-journey. I’m a bit late to the game but I caught a rerun of the National Geographic documentary Journey of Man on ...