Blonde By Nature

With the help of 30 international labs, research biologist Linda Holland has solved the sequence of the amphioxus genome (aka lancelet). Although it’s not a well-known marine animal, the worm-like creature has stolen the scientific spotlight since it is the closest invertebrate relative to vertebrates, despite the genetic split from vertebrates over 520 million years [...]

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Everything in the natural world is connected and the indicator of our successes and failures is apparent in the fragile balance of ecosystems. Ultimately, an ecosystem is “a community of living and non-living things that work together in harmony and balance” and if it becomes corrupt, frogs are the first to effectively communicate the ailments [...]

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There is a YouTube video of a tuff of clouds that contain a light wispy-looking rainbow in no particular formation that claims to be taken 30 mins before the 2008 Sichuan earthquake in China. Some suggestion that the type of rainbow was closely connected to the quake itself and likely even a sign of [...]

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Burning incense isn’t just to cover up the scent of cannabis anymore…
The FASEB Scientific Journal announced today that Incense Is Psychoactive: Scientists Identify The Biology Behind The Ceremony. A research team of 15 brains from Johns Hopkins University and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem studied the burning of the resin from the plant Boswellia [...]

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With a confirmed death toll soaring above 23,000 with another 42,000 still missing, the government believes that Myanmar’s Cyclone Naris will have taken over 100,000 lives. As the first U.N. aid flights start to arrive in myanmar, I watch in sadness the damage that Mother Nature has created and feel the need to dedicate [...]

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