The Mammal Family: Into the Cenozoic
The last time I discussed the mammal family tree, I ended the post in a bit of a hurry and glazed over the relationships between living mammal groups. Now it’s time to go a bit deeper. Cenozoic, ho!
A Little Biochemistry
Like a lot of people, I took AP Biology in high school, and memorized a bunch of stuff about the Krebs cycle and the electron transport chain and how mitochondria is…you know what it is. But I realized recently that...
Thermoregulation
Thermoregulation, or animals’ control of their body temperature or lack thereof, I’ve discussed before in my posts on dinosaur fuzz and the physics of the very large and very small, but only in relation to particular phenomena and not as...
Summer Art 2021
I guess it makes sense that after halving my posting schedule in 2021, it would take twice as long to compile enough art for an art post.
The Evolution of Beauty
Lately I’ve been reading a lot of nature books, and quite a few of them have mentioned natural beauty as it relates to one topic or another. I thought it would be worthwhile to synthesize all these viewpoints together into...