Author Archives: Bob ll

Vegan musician, activist, author, and restaurateur, Moby, is turning his backyard pool into a tree and plant-filled pollinator paradise for bees, butterflies, and other creatures vital to the ecosystem. Source: Vegan Musician and Activist Moby is Turning His Pool Into … Continue reading →

Ahhhhhhh this might be fun folks. Hopefully this judge can figure out unlike the judge in 2016 that a human cell and a person are two different legal entities. A federal judge in Washington, D.C. has rejected a motion by … Continue reading →

Monsanto is going beyond GMOs and investing in the gene-editing startup Pairwise. The deal could herald the arrival of the first Crispr produce. Source: Monsanto is on the verge of producing the first fruit made with a blockbuster gene-editing tool … Continue reading →

Pesticides from California’s Central Valley farms are found in Pacific chorus frogs living in pristine Sierra Nevada national parks. Source: Pesticides Contaminating Critters in California’s National Parks Scientists first noticed sharply declining frog populations in the Sierra Nevada starting in … Continue reading →

Source: A brief outline of various ways to measure the rate of photosynthesis – including measuring photosynthesis via the uptake of carbon dioxide (e.g. using immobilised algae), via the production of oxygen in pondweed, via the increase in dry mass, … Continue reading →

The lighter-colored streets actually reflect the sun’s rays and help keep LA cool. Source: Los Angeles is spending $40,000 per mile to paint streets white — and it could have a surprising ripple effect on the city Wow and downtown … Continue reading →

World Water Day, an annual celebration initiated by the United Nations to raise awareness about water scarcity and how to preserve and use it safely. Even though water covers almost three-fourths of the Earth’s surface, there are many regions that … Continue reading →

Source: https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/21/health/mumps-vaccine-study/index.html Well I seem to be posting a lot on Immunology. And unfortunately this is such a hot-button issue that even scientists can’t seem to approach it rationally. I’ve been posting to some extent because I’ve been taught a … Continue reading →

He wanted to play God, so he cracked the human genome. Now he wants to play Darwin and collect the DNA of everything on the planet. Source: Craig Venter’s Epic Voyage to Redefine the Origin of the Species I just … Continue reading →

I am going to open up a huge can of worms. A few of my friends and I regularly discuss _mandatory_ vaccinations. They think I’m insane. They may be right 😛. I believe that some of the confusion that may … Continue reading →