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Big Bugs, Little Bugs
The titan beetle (Titanus giganteus), is not necessarily a gentle giant. Its jaws can snap pencils and easily cut into human flesh…. and they fly. Calm down, the adults don’t feed, they just look for...
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Look Who’s Talking
Humans have the ability to make language, although too many choose not to use it well. Our speech involves anatomy, genes, and our higher brain functions that allow us to attach meaning to words and...
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Leaves Suck!
We have talked about the reactions of photosynthesis before. Basically, the plant uses the energy of the sun to fix carbon (change it from gas to solid) by adding water to it chemically. Then it splits...
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Lions And Tigers and Ligers, Oh My!
A full grown liger is a biiggg cat! A male lion and a female tiger get to know each well, and their love child is huge. It doesn’t happen in the wild because the ranges of lions and tigers don’t...
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I’ll Fly Home—Or Not
The snowy owl is sedentary, meaning it does not migrate. The males are almost perfectly white, while the females and juveniles can have black barring. They sit, look, and listen for their prey, which...
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Your Body Has A Photographic Memory
Biology Concepts – innate immunity, acquired immunity, memory response, influenzaYour body is exposed to tens of thousands of foreign molecules every day. Some can do you harm, some can’t. Your immune...
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Feelin' Hot Hot Hot!
Biology concepts – fever, infectious disease, sexually transmitted disease, innate immune systemWould you be willing to be a human guinea pig, to see if one disease might stop another? The term “human...
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Mostly Dead Is Slightly Alive
Miracle Max had his own methods for determining if someone was all dead or just mostly dead. They involveda bellows and Carol Kane’s voice. But the point is made, for centuries, people were just...
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