Taxonomia Falla

Recently came across some ridiculously horrible taxonomy from China (.pdf). If you scroll down a bit you can see the english translation. At first glance this looks like a standard taxonomy paper with bare-bones species descriptions. You might even think to yourself, “huh, wonder why they are describing species from only one specimen”. Not the . . . → Llegir més: Taxonomia Falla

Trist però cert

The brief comment about Linus Pauling and Vitamin C below made me remember this video first posted a while ago by Pharyngula. Això és Kary Mullis, l'inventor de la PCR, i un guanyador del Premi Nobel. El seu invent anàlisi d'ADN bàsicament fet possible. Però igual que Pauling, ell també és completa i totalment les femelles. If you have . . . → Llegir més: Trist però cert