October 2009
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August 2009
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July 2009
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"Darwin In Kansas" by: Salman Rushdie
This is a short essay written in September, 1999 by Salman Rushdie (author of ‘Midnight’s Children’ and ‘The Satanic Verses’) on the unsettling lack of acceptance of Charles Darwins theory of evolution by natural selection published in 1859 (also independently concieved but published subsequently by Alfred Russel Wallace a friend and contemporary of Darwin’s)...
Axolotls teach us a lot about limb regeneration →
Axolotls (famous for their text book example of neotony or becoming sexually mature but never fully physically mature) can also regenerate lost limbs, something that biomedical engineering has been looking into for some time now, and is inching ever closer as stem cell research has been given the green light.
Answers to medical problems will be found in nature, and evolution will be the greatest...
June 2009
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