FieldNotes: Science Notes and high school start times

One of the best days of the year for science writing is the day when the students of the UC Santa Cruz program for science writing publish their final works in a collection called Science Notes. Each student works on a topic for an entire year or so, goes into depth of reporting, teams up with art students of the Science Illustration Program at California State University, Monterey Bay to produce illustrations, arts and videos, and publishes a highly polished, beautiful piece. The 2015 Science Notes just published last week - read them all:

Smoke in the Valley by Kerry Klein at Science Notes 2015:

One night a few years ago, Natalie Sua was watching television at her home in Fresno when she noticed movement across the room. Her five-year-old son Javier looked like he was convulsing. She lifted his shirt and discovered his chest and stomach were retracting. Javier was struggling so hard to breathe he couldn’t even wheeze. Sua rushed Javier to the emergency room, where doctors explained that he was having an asthma attack. Sua was shocked; he had never shown signs of the disease. “They were telling me I barely got him there in time,” the 29-year-old says. “His whole airway was almost closed." ....

Edges of Extinction by Nicholas Weiler at Science Notes 2015:

Past a gate covered in brambles and down a faint path blocked here and there by fallen trees lies a small pond caked with algae and surrounded by gray willows. By the edge of the pond, Barry Sinervo carefully inserts a cable into the rear of a lifelike pale green gelatin frog. His student, Anna Ringelman, stands by taking notes. The UC Santa Cruz ecologist has come to study California red-legged frogs. They’re away at the moment, dispersed across campus for the winter. But that doesn’t bother Sinervo. He designed these rubbery agar models, which soak up water and the sun’s warmth just like real amphibians, to test why frogs across California are going extinct. They can stand in for absentee frogs as well as they have for vanished ones. ....

Call of the Beachmaster by Nala Rogers at Science Notes 2015:

A young male elephant seal known as U145 is about to make his move. He has spent the morning watching a dozen female seals lounging on a strip of beach at California’s Año Nuevo State Park. Now a sleek female on the edge of the group is weaning her pup and returning to sea, leaving the spot where she has lain for the past month. Her pup opens huge, liquid-dark eyes and calls after her, a shrill banshee cry. The dominant alpha male heaves his battle-scarred bulk after the departing female. She is one-third the size of most males, and if she were alone, the subordinate males by the waterline would try to force her to mate. But while the alpha male escorts her and claims one last tryst in the surf, he leaves his harem unguarded.......

Heard it from a Bird by Chris Cesare at Science Notes 2015:

Zebra finches mate for life. They also rarely shut up. “That combination is sweet in terms of studying communication,” says Frederic Theunissen, a neuroscientist at the University of California, Berkeley. “It's just like us: We're social and we're vocal.” Most of the songbirds’ sounds are simple squeaks. Mates stay in touch, newborns ask for food, and the whole colony raises the alarm when danger is near. But researchers have long been more interested in the birds’ songs—complex vocalizations that males learn at a young age and use during courtship. Theunissen studies how finch brains recognize those songs amidst the clamor of other sounds. ....

Condors in Purgatory by Rex Sanders at Science Notes 2015:

Swooping low across a canyon inside Pinnacles National Park, California condor #444 appeared to be in fine health. “Ventana” hatched in 2007 from a nest in Big Sur, and she paired five years later with #340. The next year they fed their first chick regurgitated food scavenged from miles away. That food came from a dead animal—rotting, stinking and crawling with maggots. But one of the condor’s favorite meals, the gut pile left behind after a hunter kills a deer or wild pig, threatens the survival of this critically endangered species. Every year, researchers must trap about one-fifth of the free-flying condors in the western United States and Mexico to treat them for poisoning from fragments of lead ammunition in their food. Other workers lug carcasses to feeding stations and spend long hours monitoring the birds’ travels. Wild condors, now numbering about 230, would go extinct without this sustained, multi-million-dollar program of research, breeding, tracking and treatment.....

Sea Stars Go Viral by Leslie Willoughby at Science Notes 2015:

Spruce and cedar stand sentinel on a rocky Oregon headland. Gulls call from a distance, invisible in the colorless mist. It’s 5:45 a.m. at Cape Arago, 15 miles southwest of Coos Bay, and it's too cold to slide into rubbery, waterproof overalls still wet from the previous day’s work. We pick up toolboxes, clipboards, and lengths of PVC pipe. Nate Fletcher, a biologist at UC Santa Cruz, leads us down a muddy path. His colleagues have surveyed this shoreline every six months since 2000, and they know something has changed. This morning in the outgoing tide, sea stars—previously plentiful—now barely cling to life. In June 2013, scientists first watched these flamboyantly colored creatures transmogrify just as Yeats once described in a poem: “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold. . . .” Within days the animals disintegrated, their arms walked off in different directions, and they melted into goo. ....

Wild West Nile by Leigh Cooper at Science Notes 2015:

Dead mosquitoes spill onto a glass slide in a ball, claws caught on legs, legs wrapped around heads. Ecologist Tony Kovach, a graduate student at UC Santa Cruz, untangles the insects with tweezers, trying not to detach the legs from their owners. He searches through the buggy ball for one group of mosquitoes, the Culex genus, which includes the distinctively marked Culex tarsalis. “He’s all tattooed up,” says Kovach. “He’s got stripes—prison tatts.” Under the microscope, he points out a white stripe running down each of the mosquito’s dark legs to its small claws. With a twist of the tweezers he draws attention to the mosquito’s proboscis. The piercing mouthpiece looks like a chocolate-dipped cannoli, brown at each end and light tan in the middle. Kovach will separate the Culex mosquitoes from the many bugs he collected while tromping through bogs and farm fields north of Sacramento.....

Just Within Reach by James Urton at Science Notes 2015:

Maggie Reynolds sighted her target on the laptop screen and inhaled. Her eyes darted between the screen and her upright fist. She struggled, trying to raise her fist a few inches higher. But the desires of her brain couldn’t connect with her muscles. She failed, and the laptop made a percussive clunking sound. She lowered and massaged her numb left arm, fist still clenched. Reynolds looked over at Luke Buschmann, the lanky UC Santa Cruz graduate student who sat nearby on a sofa. He focused on a mathematics textbook balanced on his knees. Buschmann hadn’t noticed her struggle, or that Reynolds still had good news to share. “That was my highest score,” she boasted....

Power House by Kim Smuga-Otto at Science Notes 2015:

Along a mountain road in Santa Cruz County, one in every ten houses sports solar panels. Peter Putt of Suns Up Solar pulls his truck into the driveway of a home with a major installation. Three of the system's 38 panels perch on the sloping roof of the two-car garage. Inside is a gray minivan, a cluster of bikes, and a low white box tucked against the wall. It looks like an extra freezer. Putt, middle-aged with gray hair and a bushy mustache, greets his client, Teresa Mangelsen, with a hug. They discuss the two fuse boxes next to the garage door opener. Then, Putt pops open the white box. It contains not frozen food, but two rows of eight black cubes, each the size of a toaster. Fat red and black cables snake among them.....

Cerebral Vibrations by Lisa Marie Potter at Science Notes 2015:

Just minutes after I remove my boots inside the entrance of the Globe Institute of Sound and Consciousness in San Francisco, founder David Gibson asks whether I’d like to experience the sound table. “Absolutely,” I say. Gibson leads me past knee-high crystal bowls and U-shaped tuning forks into a warm, candlelit back room. I lie on the table’s amethyst mattress and gaze at the mandala designs on the ceiling fabric. Ambient music fills the space: wind chimes, waves, a string quartet. Then, subwoofers start vibrating bass rhythms into my toes, thighs, back, shoulders and head. As the music builds, the pulses intensify—and I begin to relax. ....

The Rest Of The Best:

Famous Fluid Equations Are Incomplete by Natalie Wolchover at Quanta Magazine:

In 1900, the great mathematician David Hilbert presented a list of 23 unsolved problems worth investigating in the new century. The list became a road map for the field, guiding mathematicians through unexplored regions of the mathematical universe as they ticked off problems one by one. But one of the problems was not like the others. It required connecting the mathematical universe to the real one. Hilbert’s sixth problem called upon researchers to axiomatize the laws of physics — that is, rigorously construct them from a basic set of starting assumptions, or axioms. Doing so would reveal contradictions between laws that demanded different axioms. And deriving the entire body of physical laws from the same axioms would prove they were not merely haphazard, incoherent descriptions of disparate phenomena, but instead formed a unified, mathematically airtight, internally consistent theory of reality. “Once again it was an issue of unification, which pervades physics to this day,” said Marshall Slemrod, a mathematician at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.........

Why the long face? Researchers compile directory of horse facial expressions by Tim Radford at Guardian:

A horse doesn’t have to pull a long face, it has one already. But it can and does look down its nose at you. It can be insistent, if not a nag. Horses are expressive, but those who want to decipher their expressions have a few hurdles yet to jump. But the chase is on. Scientists at the University of Sussex have compiled a directory of facial expression in one of humanity’s oldest four-legged friends. Their Equine Facial Action Coding System (EquiFACS for short) has identified 17 discrete facial movements in horses that may indicate mood or intention or just bafflement. This is at least three more than the facial expressions identified in chimpanzees. Dogs can get a message across with 16 different expressions. And human faces have 27 different ways of speaking silently, with the lips and eyes and the occasional wrinkled nose.....

How to change the minds of vaccine skeptics? Scare them. by Julia Belluz at Vox:

.........This latest study may offer clues about a new way of addressing vaccine skepticism. As the authors write, "Rather than attempting to dispel myths about the dangers of vaccinations, we recommend that the very real dangers posed by serious diseases, like measles, mumps, and rubella, be emphasized." They suggest parents may be more responsive to "warnings (in the form of graphic pictures and anecdotes) of the severity of these diseases.".......

Ancient Sea Monster Unearthed In Alaska Mountains by Shaena Montanari at Forbes:

The remote snow-covered Talkeetna Mountains in Alaska probably do not evoke thoughts of a diverse ocean ecosystem. But the rocks that make up this region have clued paleontologists into the existence of a 70 million year old Cretaceous seaway that contained Alaska’s first ever elasmosaur. Elasmosaurs are Mesozoic marine reptiles that lived in the oceans during the time the dinosaurs roamed the Earth. The elasmosaurs had the longest-necks out of all plesiosaurs, with 36-72 neck vertebrae, and powerful swimming flippers that propelled them through the oceans.....

The New Laws of Explosive Networks by Jennifer Ouellette at Quanta Magazine:

Last week, United Airlines grounded nearly 5,000 flights when its computer system crashed. The culprit: a faulty network router. Later on the same morning, another computer glitch halted trading on the New York Stock Exchange for over three hours. Some saw the sinister hand of a hacker in these outages, but they are far more likely to be a coincidence, an intrinsic feature of the system rather than a bug. Networks go down all the time, a consequence of unprecedented levels of interconnection. Disruptions can occur even in the most robust networks, whether these are power grids, global financial markets, or your favorite social network. As the former Atlantic reporter Alexis Madrigal observed when a computer error shut down the Nasdaq stock exchange in 2013, “When things work in new ways, they break in new ways.”......

CDC's Plan To Reduce Superbug Infections Is Wishful Thinking by Judy Stone at Forbes:

The CDC optimistically just said that better communication between hospitals, nursing homes, and health departments could markedly reduce antibiotic resistant “superbug” infections. While a laudable idea, I’m afraid the plan is the stuff of dreams…or, in this case, computer models. Given my view from the trenches—working part-time in several community hospitals—here are the problems I see that need to be overcome.....

The Rise of Computer-Aided Explanation by Michael Nielsen at Quanta Magazine:

Imagine it’s the 1950s and you’re in charge of one of the world’s first electronic computers. A company approaches you and says: “We have 10 million words of French text that we’d like to translate into English. We could hire translators, but is there some way your computer could do the translation automatically?” At this time, computers are still a novelty, and no one has ever done automated translation. But you decide to attempt it. You write a program that examines each sentence and tries to understand the grammatical structure. It looks for verbs, the nouns that go with the verbs, the adjectives modifying nouns, and so on. With the grammatical structure understood, your program converts the sentence structure into English and uses a French-English dictionary to translate individual words..........

How Time, Space and Authority Figures Influence Your Moral Judgment by Adam Hoffman at Smithsonian magazine:

Philosophers and psychologists studying moral reasoning have long argued that certain pillars of morality are largely fixed and apply universally across time and space. But work conducted by an international team of researchers now suggests that people's moral judgments are far more flexible than previously thought. The study offers insight into the ways people respond to morally troubling events, from rape to slander, and may yield clues to the level of outrage expressed by a given community. “Human societies all have higher-order punishment, which means that we don’t just punish wrongdoers, we punish people who fail to punish wrongdoers,” says co-author Daniel Fessler, a professor of anthropology at University of California, Los Angeles. “So it is costly not to be outraged when you should be.”..........

Food for Thought by William Saletan at Slate:

It’s gut-check time for the anti-GMO movement. In the past couple of years, some of the country’s best science journalists—Amy Harmon, Nathanael Johnson, Keith Kloor, Michael Specter, and others—have shredded many of the movement’s claims and arguments. Three weeks ago Slate poked more holes in the case for banning or labeling genetically engineered food. t’s gut-check time for the anti-GMO movement. In the past couple of years, some of the country’s best science journalists—Amy Harmon, Nathanael Johnson, Keith Kloor, Michael Specter, and others—have shredded many of the movement’s claims and arguments. Three weeks ago Slate poked more holes in the case for banning or labeling genetically engineered food. Some GMO critics, to their credit, seem open to reforming the movement. Gary Hirshberg, the chairman of Just Label It, has been pounded by GMO advocates for unscientific statements. But in his latest essay, Hirshberg shows tentative signs of turning away from allegations that GMOs per se are dangerous. He’s trying to refocus the debate on transparency, herbicidal applications, and long-term monitoring. Others are clinging to the same old discredited attacks on GMO safety. Chief among them is Claire Robinson, an editor at GMWatch and researcher for Earth Open Source. Two years ago, when Johnson investigated issues on both sides of the GMO debate for a series in Grist, Robinson accused him of parroting industry spin. Now Robinson has written a three-part series leveling a similar charge at Slate. Her arguments fail, but they do so in an instructive way. By exploring these common anti-GMO errors, you can learn a lot about how to think critically, and not just about GMOs. Here are some of the lessons......

Herbs and Plants – History by Doctor Ramey at David Ramey, D.V.M.:

The history of veterinary applications of plants – today mostly referred to by such terms as “herbals” and “botanicals” is actually quite long and well documented. That fact seems to be responsible for some of the appeal of plants as medicines. The line of thinking is along the lines of, “Well, if it’s been around for so long, then there must be something to it.” Of course, when you look at things that way, you’d be able to make a very persuasive argument for riding donkeys to work, but I digress......

Can anesthesia satisfy the need for sleep? by Jessa Gamble at The Last Word On Nothing:

When Michael Jackson died, it came to light that he had been receiving an IV drip of the anesthetic Propofol throughout the night for the previous two months. His death was attributed to cardiac arrest, brought on by an overdose of the drug. Clearly, this kind of treatment is a bad idea, and I don’t know anyone who would support it. But in the months that followed, the underlying principle — that anesthesia can replace sleep — was summarily dismissed. I think it deserves a second look......

And if that is not enough, more readings for later this weekend:


Descendants of Holocaust Survivors Have Altered Stress Hormones by Tori Rodriguez at Scientific American Mind
New York Needs Coyotes by Lance Richardson at Slate
Once again, the problem is not synthesis, it's design by Ashutosh Jogalekar at The Curious Wavefunction
Our Evolving Ethics on Animals by Derek Beres at Big Think
Should Prison Sentences Be Based On Crimes That Haven’t Been Committed Yet? by Anna Maria Barry-Jester, Ben Casselman and Dana Goldstein at FiveThirtyEight
Doctors Say We Should Let Students Sleep in Longer by Jessica Hullinger at Mental Floss




Answer to earthworm's ability to digest poisons unearthed by scientists by Tim Radford at Guardian
Lessons From Charles Darwin on Promoting Philanthropy by David Sloan Wilson at The Chronicle of Philanthropy
Tyrannosaurus rex study reaffirms its predatory credentials by Ian Sample at Guardian
Are imperfect, ‘leaky’ vaccines resulting in emergence of nastier viruses? by Arvind Suresh at Genetic Literacy Project
How Citizen Scientists are Creating an Atlas of Turtles in Connecticut by Russ Campbell at Citizen Science Salon
How White Came to Be Synonymous With Clean and Good by Courtney Humphries at Nautilus
Malacology Monthly: A Look at Bivalves, From Both Sides Now by Douglas Long at Deep Sea News
Yes, Other Animals Do Have Sex For Fun by Jamie Lawson at The Crux
Hamsters Are Happier When They Have Toys by Kiona Smith-Strickland at D-brief
Fifty psychological and psychiatric terms to avoid: a list of inaccurate, misleading, misused, ambiguous, and logically confused words and phrases by Scott O. Lilienfeld, Katheryn C. Sauvigné, Steven Jay Lynn, Robin L. Cautin, Robert D. Latzman and Irwin D. Waldman at Frontiers in Psychology
Okay, Um, So, Uh, What Exactly Is All This Fuss Over GMOs? by at Bon Appétit
How anti-vaxxers have scared the media away from covering vaccine side effects by Julia Belluz at Vox
Frequent spicy meals linked to human longevity by Haroon Siddique at Guardian



The Flip Side of Optimism About Life on Other Planets by Dennis Overbye at OUT THERE
Schools are starting to teach kids philosophy -- and it's completely changing the way they think by Chris Weller at Business Insider
Encounters with the Posthuman by Sally Davies at Nautilus
‘Sleeping on it’ really is the smartest way to solve a problem by Padraic Monaghan at Quartz
Spicy food associated with longevity by Nathan Seppa at Science Ticker
3 ways GMO rice could improve world but tech hurdles and anti-GMO protests block way by Iida Ruishalme at Genetic Literacy Project
At Tiny Scales, a Giant Burst on Tree of Life by Kevin Hartnett at Quanta Magazine
Hadromeros: A Trilobite Survivor by Christopher Taylor at Catalogue of Organisms



World’s largest natural sound archive now fully digital and fully online. by Cornell University at Cornell University Tumblr
Most space charts leave out the most important part — all of the space by Kelly Dickerson at Business Insider
Study: How experiencing awe transforms the way you treat the people around you by Thu-Huong Ha at Quartz
Why Evidence From A Randomized Clinical Trial For Ovarian Cancer Treatment Has Limited Value by Elaine Schattner at Forbes
Painting Fire With Fire by Michelle Nijhuis at The Last Word On Nothing
Should search algorithms be moral? A conversation with Google’s in-house philosopher by David Webber at Quartz
Science, not fear, should guide food labeling laws by The Editorial Board at Boston Globe
Are plants intelligent? New book says yes by Jeremy Hance at Radical Conservation
Sex life of ancient Fractofusus organism revealed by Rebecca Morelle at BBC News
Price and prejudice: How ads for egg donation are starting to sound like matrimonials by Ipsita Chakravarty at The Scroll
This 1831 Geological Journey Was Decisive For Darwin's Scientific Career by David Bressan at Forbes



Kingston’s Fight: McKinney boy and his family confront a paralyzing illness by Anna Kuchment at Dallas Morning News
Galápagos penguins find a cool refuge in a warming world by Jason G. Goldman at Conservation
Monarch butterfly studies tell a perplexing tale by Emily DeMarco at AAAS News
Seeing in Purple: The Art and Science of Color by Paige Brown Jarreau at FromTheLabBench
Science explains why people see faces where there are none by Christophe Haubursin at Vox
Gluing Yourself to a Live Crocodile and Other Mistakes by Robinson Meyer at The Atlantic
Theories of Everything, Mapped by Natalie Wolchover at Quanta Magazine
Newly Discovered Predatory Dinosaur 'King of Gore' Reveals the Origins of T. RexGeology Page
Exploring The 'Wild And Haunting World Of Dolphins' at NPR Fresh Air
Nematodes Use Slugs Like Buses ... and Maybe Cruise Ships by Jennifer Frazer at The Artful Amoeba
Science on Television: Despite tensions, the potential of visual narrative and scientific storytelling is enormous. by Clara Florensa, Oliver Hochadel and Carlos Tabernero at LSE Impact of Social Sciences blog
Are Whales And Dolphins Cultural Beings? by Barbara J. King at 13.7: Cosmos And Culture
Dark side of the moon captured by Nasa satellite a million miles from Earth by Oliver Milman at Guardian
Scientists in Iran clone endangered mouflon – born to domestic sheep by Saeed Kamali Dehghan at Guardian
The Curious Case of the Bog Bodies by Kristen C. French at NautilusIs the “new” Norwegian wolf really wild? by Idun Haugan at Gemini
Mind-controlling wasps enslave zombie spiders to build them a perfect nest by Ellen Dorothea Moss at The Conversation
Researchers say they've found a way to combat anti-vaccine attitudes, but is it premature to celebrate? by Simon Oxenham at BPS Research Digest



The enduring legacy of Leo Szilard, father of the atomic age by Ashutosh Jogalekar at The Curious Wavefunction
Birth control pills have dramatic anti-cancer benefits by Steven Salzberg at Genomics, Medicine, and Pseudoscience
Want a Bird Flu-Free World? Consider Breeding Resistant Birds by Tamar Haspel at The Plate
Tetrapodophis amplectus: Is it “The Archaeopteryx of the Squamate World”? by Stephanie Keep at National Center for Science Education blog
Rebecca’s Amazon Adventure by Rebecca Tripp at TREE Foundation
How Dogs Know a Face When They See One by Carol Clark at The Epoch Times
Dolphins and Drugs – The Shocking Connections by Douglas Long at Deep Sea News
Mathematically Precise Crosshatching by Glendon Mellow at Symbiartic



A Scientist Responds… to The Fly by Diane Kelly and Ria Misra at io9
Why everyone who is sure about a food philosophy is wrong by Tamar Haspel at Washington Post
So You Want to Talk about Lions… by Jason Bittel at onEarth
WIlliam Provine doesn't like random genetic drift by Larry Moran at Sandwalk
Venomous frogs use toxic face spines as weapons by GrrlScientist at GrrlScientist
Tuskless 10 Million Year-Old Walrus Ancestor Discovered In Japan by Shaena Montanari at Forbes
Making Friends in New Places by NICHOLAS A. CHRISTAKIS at NYTimes



Most US middle and high schools start the school day too early by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at CDC Newsroom
Schools Start Too Early, Federal Officials Say by Alexandra Sifferlin at TIME
U.S. Schools Kids Start Too Early, Study Finds by Maggie Fox at NBCnews
CDC: Too many schools start class too early, a problem for student health by Emma Brown at Washington Post
Science Confirms Horses Have All the Feels by John Wilkinson at Horse Collaborative
Scientists Discover that Horses Are More Expressive Than Chimps by Allison Eck at NOVAnext



How to write about RNA by Larry Moran at Sandwalk
With lab-grown meat, can we have our animals and eat them too? by Suzanne Jacobs at Grist
Albino Sea Cucumbers, a Delicacy, Could Become a Lot Less Rare by CRYSTAL TSE at Sinosphere
How homes kept cool before the age of AC by SolarCity at SolarCity blog
'Caveman Instincts' May Favor Deep-Voiced Politicians by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery
Climate change causes timing shifts in fish reproduction by Christina Wu at Phys.org
Bees, breastfeeding and epigenetics: Can nutrition alter our genes? by Steven Lin at Genetic Literacy Project
12 lies about “12 mainstream vaccine lies” refuted by Orac at Respectful Insolence
Meet Dr. Katy Smith – Mastodon Detective by mostlymammoths at Mostly Mammoths, Mummies and Museums
Why we are poles apart on climate change by Dan Kahan. at Nature
Good news for the planet? And are "ecomodernists" part of the solution? by David Brin at CONTRARY BRIN



What do doctors say to 'alternative therapists' when a patient dies? Nothing. We never talk by Ranjana Srivastava at Comment is free
The Great Victorian Weather Wars by PETER MOORE at NYTimes
Want to keep ER nurses from leaving? Focus on patient safety instead of satisfaction. by Thomas Paine, MD at KevinMD
Call off the bee-pocalypse: U.S. honeybee colonies hit a 20-year high by Christopher Ingraham at Washington Post
Eye shape reveals whether an animal is predator or prey, new study shows by Tim Radford at Guardian
This Bird Spends Over Six Straight Months in the Air by Esther Inglis-Arkell at io9
I hated working with fetal tissue. But my research led to a breast cancer breakthrough. by Madison Kilpatrick III at Vox




Previously in this series:

FieldNotes: a view to spotted horses in the morning
FieldNotes: The Word For World is Blue (or is it Gold?)
FieldNotes: Golden Mean, polite middle-ground, and optimal numbers of legs.
FieldNotes: speeding up and slowing down time
FieldNotes: from Captain Ahab to Jeff Goldblum, chasing the giants
FieldNotes: this is not your grandparents' neuroscience!
FieldNotes: Brontosaurus in, Food Babe out.
FieldNotes: Rogue Microwave Ovens Call Home
FieldNotes: Let the sleeping apes lie
FieldNotes: one thing leads to another leads to another
FieldNotes: Seductive Allure of Seductive Allure of Neuroscience Explanations
FieldNotes: do African horses do flehmen at the sight of Derby hats?
FieldNotes: How The Bird Got Its Beak
FieldNotes: When Snakes Had Legs...
FieldNotes: Only before the bicameral mind evolved could people fall for Bohannon's cheap stunts
FieldNotes: Water, fire, origin of life, origin of cooking.
FieldNotes: Jurassic World, and other strange animals...
FieldNotes: Honey Badger Don’t Care!
FieldNotes: Hallucigenia is back on its head again.
FieldNotes: Poisonous and grieving quail, reclusive rail, and giants!
FieldNotes: When Snark was a Boojum
FieldNotes: In a grip of the legs of a snakeFieldNotes: Cecil and grief



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