China, Oil, and the Monroe Doctrine

China, Oil, and the Monroe Doctrine

I found this article interesting. This quote especially caught my eye:  "With an expanding economy and a car fleet mushrooming with its middle class, China has been searching far and wide for…
Obese Britain Blind To Risk Of Sight Loss

Obese Britain Blind To Risk Of Sight Loss

ANDOVER, England, November 9 /PRNewswire/ -- As the UK's obesity crisis burgeons, millions of overweight Brits are blind to the fact that their unhealthy lifestyles mean they are twice as likely to…
See The Benefits Of A Healthy Lifestyle

See The Benefits Of A Healthy Lifestyle

ANDOVER, England, November 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Sight charity The Eyecare Trust has joined forces with healthcare provider Simplyhealth to warn that many lifestyle choices can pose a serious threat to…
Squid Fronts and Backs, Ups and Downs

Squid Fronts and Backs, Ups and Downs

One of my favorite zoologist habits is to gesture on one's own body when describing an animal's anatomy. The weirder the animal, the funnier the implicit analogy. "These worms have a ventral nerve…
Why Physicists Like Ratios

Why Physicists Like Ratios

A good part of basic research in fundamental physics focuses on the definition, the prediction, and the measurement of quantities which put the current theory -the standard model- to the test in the…
PEPcase  and salinity tolerance

PEPcase and salinity tolerance

PEPcase determinations As a key enzyme in C4-photosynthesis and Crassulacean Acid Metabolism (Kluge, 1983), phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase (EC 4.1.1.31) has been studied intensively in several…