Reading Time: 2 minutes Humans have been paired with chimps in movies, television, and books as far back as I can remember. I’d assume that’s mostly due to the similarities we share with these great apes—how we can see ourselves in them and undeniably realize our link to them, despite also being indoctrinated elsewhere into the idea that humans […]
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How science cheats women
Reading Time: 2 minutes Women have made many great scientific achievements, despite the sexist attitudes that tried to hold them back.
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Uterus 101: On menstruation, miscarriage, and mifepristone
Reading Time: 10 minutes When my Grade 5 class went through Ontario’s reproductive health curriculum in the mid-1990s, the boys and girls were separated, and received remarkably different lessons. Along with the basics of our changing bodies, I and the girls were shown how to use condoms through a banana demonstration, and told how important protection would be when […]
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Semantic paraphasia: The things we can’t help
Reading Time: 5 minutes I often mis-say specific words. I know the word I want and I’m thinking of the right thing at the time, but the wrong word consistently pops out. It turns out there’s a term for this situation: semantic paraphasia. Today, Lord Snow Presides over our brains — and the stuff we literally can’t help sometimes.
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Myxozoa: Pushing the Limits of Definitions (LSP #214)
Reading Time: 5 minutes The sheer mind-blowing facts of our world never end. These rabbitholes we explore turn into warrens full of information for the curious to devour — and each new twist and turn in the warren only leads us to more questions we want to answer. At no time in human history has it been easier to learn and grow — and best of all, to share what we’ve found with others.
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Where the Denisovans Are 2021 (LSP #206)
Reading Time: 5 minutes Today, Lord Snow Presides over the way one ancient human species, the Denisovans, reached the present day through our DNA.
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Where the Denisovans are 2021
Reading Time: 5 minutes Today, Lord Snow Presides over the way one ancient human species, the Denisovans, reached the present day through our DNA.
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DNA Study Tells Us That We’re Barely ‘Human’ At All (LSP #201)
Reading Time: 7 minutes Today, Lord Snow Presides over the many, many facets of our humanity — and the messy DNA that makes us so.
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New DNA study tells us that we’re barely human at all
Reading Time: 4 minutes Today, Lord Snow Presides over the many, many facets of our humanity — and the messy DNA that makes us so.
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Resetting Our Biological Clocks (LSP #199)
Reading Time: 6 minutes Hi and welcome back! Every human who is ever born will die. Hopefully, that’ll happen after we’ve lived as long and as full a life as we desire. That means that aging is a natural part of life — something everyone goes through if they live long enough. Hey, it beats the alternative! But scientists […]