Why Is Mediocrity So Common?

Why Is Mediocrity So Common?

Bell curves are everywhere. Pick 100 random people and measure them: measure their height, their weight, their blood pressure, their time to run a mile, or to sprint 50 yards, and their IQ, and you…
Jumping Into Stem Cells

Jumping Into Stem Cells

I have always held a fascination for transposons, or jumping genes as they are sometimes called. Part of this interest may be due to my background in Drosophila genetics, where a transposon called a…
Jurassic Park In A Swiss Lake

Jurassic Park In A Swiss Lake

It makes sense that ecological changes caused by humans affect natural biodiversity and, in some cases, can even cause permanent displacement of a species. Unless science revives it. Researchers…