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The Ugly Butterfly Gets The Girl
Biology concepts – fluctuating asymmetry, mate selection, honest signal, directional asymmetryFacial symmetry supposedly plays a role in physical beauty, but may represent developmental stability, an...
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Hermit Houses And Fiddler Claws
Biology concepts – bilateral asymmetry, directional asymmetry, antiasymmetry, crabs, evolution, mate choice, sexual selection, sexual dimorphismHermit crabs aren’t true crabs since they don’t have ten...
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Left-Handers Have Prettier Brains
Biology concepts – evolution, internal bilateral asymmetry, lateralization of function, brain, neural plasticityThis MRI start at one ear and shows slices through the head until it gets to the other...
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Everybody Is Just A Little Twisted
Biology concepts – bilateral asymmetry, brain, ventriculomegaly, brain torque, fluctuating asymmetry, sex hormones“Getting all your ducks in a row” actually comes from bowling. The pins used to be...
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Fibonacci Numbers And Odd Lungs
Biology concepts – respiratory system, bilateral asymmetry, evolution, estivation, Fibonacci scaling in natureWorf, although raised by humans,was mostly Klingon. He definitely adhered to their warlike...
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The CPU In Your Head
Biology concepts – homeostasis, neuroendocrine system, hormone, pituitary, hypothalamusLet’s face it, everything I know about computers I learned from Tron and Tron Legacy. What I learned most from the...
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Thinking Asymmetrically About Hormones
Biology concepts – neuroendocrine system, bilateral asymmetry, internal asymmetry, hormones, endocrine glandsJack Nicholson did some try asymmetric thinking in The Shining. The fact that he was driven...
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What the Heck Are Those Doing There?
Biology concepts – internal asymmetry, neuroendocrine, reproduction, hormone, absence symmetryThis is the Decatur County Courthouse in Greensburg Indiana. A mulberry tree has been growing out of the...
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Ovaries March To A Different Drummer
Biology concepts – neuroendocrine, ovary, bilateral asymmetry, internal asymmetry, absence asymmetry, hormones, ovulationMany things we are taught in school just aren’t so. The Salem witch trials, for...
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Organs Don’t Always Follow The Plan
Biology concepts – internal anatomy, asymmetry, symmetry breaking, primary ciliary dyskinesia, situs solitus, situs inversusYou hold your right hand over your heart for the national anthem, correct? So...
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It’s 11 PM, Do You Know Where Your Organs Are?
Biology concepts – situs inversus, situs ambiguous, dextrocardia, dextroposition, isomerism, canalizationCatherine O’Hara has situs inversus, but she doesn’t have any strange stories to tell about it...
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One Egg, Two People, A Bunch of Reasons
Biology concepts – twinning, placenta, amnion, monozygotic, conjoined twins, in vitrofertilizationTwins are always a subject of interest. Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch are twins in the Avenger and...
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Twins That Share More Than Clothes
Biology concepts – mosaicism, mosaic twins, chimera, anaphase lag, non-disjunction, polar body twins, oogenesis, preimplantation genetic screeningCard stunts are a modern form of mosaic art. North...
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Don’t Disrespect The Dizygotic
Biology concepts – dizygotic twins, assisted reproductive therapies, in vitro fertilization, oogenesis, follicles stimulation, hormones, body mass indexIn the 2015 movie Spy, Melissa McCarthy looks...
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When You’re Not Just Yourself
Biology concepts – chimeras, twins, immune tolerance, ABO blood groups, random assortmentThe latest Wrath of the Titans movie had a chimeraas one of the monsters that had to be defeated. It had two...
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You And Mom Are Never Apart
Biology concepts – chimeras, microchimerism, autoimmunity, tolerance, self, rejection, graft vs. host disease, HLA, Rh factorMedicine can now accomplish many types of transplants – face, hand, multiple...
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Twins Versus Siblings, Where’s The Line?
Biology concepts – twins, genetic linkage, racial phenotypes, skin pigmentation, single nucleotide polymorphism, random assortment, discordant race twinsA great story came out this past July about a...
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Twins of Different Seasons
Biology concepts – twins, dizygotic, delayed interval delivery, steroid hormones, lung development, time of birthLeonardo DiCaprio starred as the twins Louis and Philipe in the latest iteration of The...
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Twin Sons Of Different Mothers…… Or Fathers
Biology concepts – twins, superfecundity, superfetation, hormones, reproductionBest In Showis one of the great movies; it also gives you a good idea how crazy some people get about their dogs. I...
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Blood --- Not Just For Vampires Anymore
“Nosferatu” was the first film (1922, directed by F.W. Murnau) made about the blood sucking undead. It followed the Stoker novel so closely that his estate sued and a court ordered all the copies...
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