Jamii tahadhari

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 . . . → Soma Zaidi: Jamii tahadhari

Sad lakini ni kweli

maoni mafupi kuhusu Linus Pauling na vitamini C chini lilinikumbusha video hii ya kwanza posted wakati iliyopita na Pharyngula. Hii ni Kary Mullis, inventor ya PCR, na mshindi wa Tuzo ya Nobel. Uvumbuzi wake kimsingi alifanya DNA uchambuzi inawezekana. Lakini kama Pauling, yeye pia ni kabisa na kabisa karanga. Kama una . . . → Soma Zaidi: Sad lakini ni kweli