biology

A day in the life of a field ecologist

Details from my summer experience conducting fieldwork in the Colorado Rockies Photo caption: View of the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, with Gothic Mountain towering above. 4:30...

Native Plants at the Georgia Tech EcoCommons

Introduction The effort to bring greenspace and restore natural ecology to the Georgia Tech campus can be seen in the EcoCommons, a park built near...
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today i learned (til)
Yusra Anwar

How does food become energy?

Kevin Wolfe

Badass Biology: Humanity’s Most Important Adaptation

Badass Biology: Humanity’s most badass adaptation At some point, modern humans started believing that we are somehow special, that we are the center of creation...
Joe Mendelson

The Art of Getting Robbed with Gringo Perdido

As a US citizen who travels internationally to conduct research, I’m well aware of the perception that gringos = $$. Sometimes that perception is...
Kevin Wolfe

Badass Biology: Bat Echolocation

Vision is awesomely complicated. A lot of animals, like the hawk, use vision to detect important environmental cues from vast distances. They use complex...
Alison Burger

Megalodon: Fact or Fiction?

Barbies? Yea right. Doll Houses? Please. I was never the little girl who played with mini tea cups and pretended my stuffed animals were...
Joe Mendelson

Cultural Collisions with Gringo Perdido

In case you’ve ever wondered what happens to the items that are too lame to re-sell in thrift stores in our culture, they eventually...