August 2012
1 post
Honeybees: Nature`s Little Communists, Part 4.
So without too much introduction, let’s continue on from my last post. The only thing that I’d really like to preface with is this: Much of the answer to how honeybees form into a single ‘superorganism’ can be uncovered in discussing why exactly honeybees need to do this. So to begin simply, let’s discuss… The Purpose of Life For human beings, the purpose of any given person’s life is...
September 2011
1 post
Honeybees: Nature`s Little Communists, Part 3.
Alright, up to this point I’ve tried to focus on the honeybee as a singular organism, ignoring for the moment what is doubtlessly its most interesting feature: the creatures’ social organization and interactions. So lets get to the good part now, let’s talk about the colony. The Human Organism and the Honeybee Superorganism One of the most fascinating things about the human body is that we...
May 2011
4 posts
Anonymous asked: Hello! Thanks for an interesting read so-far about bees. I have always loved bees, and finding a paper that can put something in layman terms is always nice.
Anyways, I had a question regarding your second part, and their mating in particular. How can this mating method produce enough variation for natural selection? Do the queens in some way choose what drones to mate with?
Anyways, I had a question regarding your second part, and their mating in particular. How can this mating method produce enough variation for natural selection? Do the queens in some way choose what drones to mate with?
Honeybees: Nature`s Little Communists, Part 2.
After a couple of rewrites, I think I’ve found that the most logical way to structure this is to first overview the very basics of an individual honeybee’s biology. I’ll hold off until my next post to zoom a bit out in scope, and do a relatively similar analysis with the entire colony. Even though what I really want to talk about is how honeybees work together, I’ve found that without a...
Honeybees: Nature`s Little Communists, Part 1.
In this blog, much like in my last, I’d like to stick with basic biology and physiology. Although, instead of continuing to discuss humans, I’d like to take a step sideways on the evolutionary tree, and steal a quick glance at one of our most complex neighbors. Perhaps also one of our most important. And stingy. Definitely stingy. Yes, that’s right, I’m talking bees, bitches. Honeybees. ...
March 2011
6 posts
Our Sexy Senses, Part 4.
So last I left off, I expressed this single completely absurd, but totally factual claim: That our visual perception is an interpretation of a reality far different than we naturally perceive. In actuality, the universe around us is void of both color and any ‘solid’ appearance we associate with it. Neither of those qualities exist outside our own minds. And again, we know this to...
Our Sexy Senses, (Part 2 Revision!):
Really, I’m surprised it took me a whole three posts before I ruined science.* Frankly I was aiming for two posts, and to be completely honest, a part of me was really wishing I could do it in one. But no, it was my third post (Our Sexy Senses; Part 2) where I started to describe real phenomenon inaccurately. I said something wrong. So, in short, I need to take a step back and revise...
Anonymous asked: when will you be covering how love works?
Our Sexy Senses, Part 3.
I’m going to spend most of this building upon my last post about sight. With that in mind, it’ll probably be a good idea to sum up some key points I made.
What we ‘see’ is electromagnetic energy (in the form of light) being radiated from an object, not the object itself.
Other than energy level (which manifests in frequency/jiggliness), there is no physical difference between light and other...
Our Sexy Senses, Part 2.
So, before I embark my explanation of this absurd miracle we call ‘sight’, I’d like to make a quick aside. It will only take a second, and I think it’s fairly important. It’s this: I want to note that I’ll be using all of my personal restraint to not spend this entire blog making fun of the blind. While far too easy, I’d like to set an example and...
Our Sexy Senses, Part 1.
(I will be taking the bulk of the factual information in the following blog from a book. Normally it would be a text, but in this case it is Biocentrism, by Robert Lanza and Bob Berman. It’s quite interesting, and I highly suggest that you read it. I am stealing nothing from it but the hard science, a process I assume is legal. I’m kind of banking on ‘legal’ right now.)
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February 2011
1 post
An Introduction
The idea for this blog has been in my head for quite a while now. And, like all potentially bad ideas, it started as a series of questions of the ‘why not?’ variety. Simply put, they were these:
1. Why not write a blog explaining the fundamental principles of as many of the branches of science as I could tackle?
2. And why not do it in a way that would be easily accessible and engaging to the...
