Lizards all male climate change club

Nature magazine reports this headline: Condemned to single-sex life by climate change. They are talking about a species of lizards called tuatara that live "on about 30 small islands in…

Artificial photosynthesis

I don't normally get excited about "Advances in Science" papers, but everything now and then it's fun to let your imagination play. Thus, I recommend this article about an MIT…

Start squirreling away nuts?

[Update: yes, there has been a title change. The old one was stupid.] The other day, some weather geek friends of mine and I were exchanging emails about the early…

Never too old to learn

I'm at Cornell, teaching my now-annual statistics course to a group who have come up from the city and are there enrolled in a Masters program. Cornell requires students to…

Stinky Tofu

It's time for a science experiment! In a large plastic bag, collect the following: the solid bits from the kitty litter, or the equivalent output from Fido, a week's worth…