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Stereotyping: Not just for high school anymore
Escherichia coli (E.coli): if you are an average member of the public you might think of this bacteria in terms of some really nasty food poisoning. The name might conjure up warnings on...
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Dreams, Another Exercise in Things we Don’t Know
When it comes to sleep and dreams a few things are clear. Firstly, people really like to study them. Secondly, some of the gross physiological features of sleep can be observed and measured. Thirdly,...
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Biomimetic Backflips: When Robots inform Biology
The area of biomimetics is pretty much what it sounds like: mimicking biology. These principals are used extensively for many types of engineering problems and are now an area of very prolific research...
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The Midas Mind: Explorations of the Golden Section
The Golden Section, the Golden Proportion, the Golden Mean. What is this curious and literally irrational number? This blog post will what it is, where it shows up, how we use it, and the science and...
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Fall Back into that Old Rhythm
As any of our readers who suddenly found themselves an hour early for an appointment or eating dinner in the dark might know, last weekend was the daylight savings time switchover. There’s been a fair...
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Deep Sedation: Not for Everyone
We don’t often include personal stories on the blogs, but in this particular post I’m giving a short description of some a surgery I recently underwent. I had all four of my wisdom teeth removed in an...
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Making Mutants, the Safe Way
The practice of medicine has come a long way from the days of the four humours. Instead of being filled with a delicate balance blood, snot, and various forms of “bile,” we now understand that our...
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Engineering Enzymes: Steps in the Right Direction
Enzymes: you’ve heard me rave about their incredible abilities before and you’ll hear it again. These specially-abled proteins can perform in microseconds all kinds of nifty chemistry that would...
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You can be Fat as long as you’re Fit
It seems like there’s always a new study popping up in the news about diet, fitness, obesity, etc. Granted, these are very important topics for public education as the overall sedentary trend in our...
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A Mountain of Data can mean Anything
Although we hear about DNA sequencing technology in everything from forensic televisions shows to descriptions of new scientific discoveries, the implications of this technology, and what it requires...
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