Days of The Dragon

We went to the zoo on Saturday and it was pretty empty, which was really nice. We got to spend as much time as we wanted at each exhibit, the penguins, jaguars, jellyfish, and flamingos were the big hits this time!
He was really interested in how some of the jellyfish can sting you, and I [...]

This year we didn’t do a lot of the usual gardening that I do because the house is up for sale (someone please come buy my house!). Parker An did plant some sunflower seeds, though! Unfortunately, all but four of them got eaten by critters before they even fully germinated. The four that did make [...]

I was so excited to see the discoverers of GFP (Green Fluorescing Protein) win the Nobel Prize in chemistry.
Most people probably don’t realize just how monumental this discovery and research has become. Not only is it really cool that nature has this very simple chemical that glows really coolly under fluorescent light, but it is [...]

Being a serious bioscience person, this anniversary is really neat for me. July 1, 2008 was the 150 year anniversary since the first public presentation on Natural Selection, the mechanism by which evolution takes place, by Darwin.
This posting has a nice overview on the presentation, and events leading up to it.

An extremely rare turtle was recently found in Viet Nam, it may be the last wild specimen on Earth.
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo today announced the discovery of a critically endangered turtle in northern Vietnam that previously was thought to be extinct in the wild. Experts from the Zoo’s Asian Turtle Program confirmed that they have identified [...]