Some of My Favorite Loom Posts To Tide You Over
I’m off this week for an extended Fourth-of-July break. I won’t be writing any new posts here (except for a pointer to my “Matter” column in the New York Times on Thursday).
But with nearly ten years of archives, I can offer some old favorites to read in the meantime, from oldest to newest:
Hamilton’s Fall: Why leaves change color in the fall.
Spite in a Petri Dish: Spite and bacteria are not two words that usually go together.
Two posts on eyes: building them up and taking them apart.
An Inordinate Fondness for Beetle Horns: A post on the research of Doug Emlen, who later became my textbook co-author.
Florida, Where The Living Is Contradictory: Evolution-based biotech and creationism thrive in the same state.
The Wisdom of Parasites: On discovering the emerald jewel wasp, a sinister brain surgeon.
Behold, For I Am The Giant Flatulent Raccoon! How Ann Coulter became obsessed with my appendix.
A Dead Dog Lives On (Inside of New Dogs): More details on contagious cancers.
Cystic Fibrosis? Blame Eve. A look at Young Earth Genomics–with a creationist making a fascinating guest appearance in the comment thread.
Question of the Day: How Do You Get Crabs from a Gorilla?
Dawn of the Picasso Fish: A fossil fish halfway to being flat.
The Human Lake: Medicine as ecology
“You, My Friend, Are a Wonderland”–What’s living in my bellybutton.
Tongue Parasites to the People of Earth: Thank You For Overfishing
Fifty-seven Years of Darkness: Evolving with the lights out.
The Birth of the New, The Rewiring of the Old: An experiment with E. coli produces what may be a new species
