Archive for March, 2010
|White Horses, Polarization, and Flies
Saturday, March 27, 2010
This paper in Nature is very cool. White horses ought to be selected against due to sunburn and other reasons. But they’re still around – why? The answer deals with how a parasite interacts with the white hair as opposed to those horses with colored hair.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v463/n7283/full/463852a.html
Tags: Biology, Current Literature, Evolution, light spectrum, Network Science, predator-prey, vision
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Why It’s Tough to Accept New Scientific Data that Conflicts With our Learned Beliefs
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Check out this absolutely amazing review in Science magazine:
If you cannot get the full text let me know and I’ll send it out individually.
BTW, these psychologists cite Francis Crick. Amazing. The guy was an absolute giant.
Tags: Current Literature
Posted in Science & Belief | No Comments »
One of my favorite videos on Evolution
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
It’s calm, dispassionate, and spot-on:
Tags: Biology, Evolution, visual media
Posted in Teaching | No Comments »