148 years ago today 24 Nov 2007 … a book was published that changed the way we thought of biology. Evolution General Science Species and systematics
Evolution New work on the origin of life 11 Jun 2008 I can’t say much about this without reading the paper in the company of Somebody Who Knows About Chemistry, but Jack Szostak’s team at the Harvard Medical School has done some interesting looking work on the self assembly of lipids into miscelles that could contain DNA reactions. What is new… Read More
General Science Intermediate concepts in science: a list 2 Feb 200818 Sep 2017 As well as the Basic Concepts list, I occasionally get sent some links that are in my mind too advanced to be basics, but too good not to mention. So I will do with them what I have done with the Basics. Send me some links… Recent additions Coturnix’s Biological… Read More
Ecology and Biodiversity Konrad Lorenz – a lecture 24 Sep 2009 As I noted before, Paul Griffiths gave a lecture on Konrad Lorenz. The podcast is up now. Sydney Ideas Key Thinkers: Konrad Lorenz Professor Paul Griffiths delivers his 2009 Sydney Ideas Key Thinkers lecture on the remarkable life and legacy of Konrad Lorenz (1903-1989), Austrian zoologist, animal psychologist, ornithologist, and… Read More
And 23 years ago today, my first personal contribution to the human gene pool arrived. I will always enjoy that coincidence.
If a boy, did you name him Orjan? No. At the time, we weren’t aware of the significance of the date. But if we had been, of course we would have been all over that…..
You want to complain… my daughter was an elective inducement, and we scheduled it for the Friday, because Thursday was mid week. Had we thought it through, her birthday would have been 6/7/89. Oh well…