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# A Schooner of Science

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- [Happy International Talk Like a Pirate Day!](https://aschoonerofscience.com/just-for-fun/happy-international-talk-like-a-pirate-day/) - Ahoy mateys! It be the best day of the year once again! Happy talk like a pirate day! It's too late to get your ergonomic pirate keyboard, but add plenty of R's into your day anyway. The image is from the Language Log, who weren't sure who to credit it to. They had a little
- [A shameless plug for the #asc14](https://aschoonerofscience.com/science-communication/a-shameless-plug-for-the-asc14/) - Australian Science Communicators are converging today for the ASC conference of 2014. I very much enjoyed the 2010 one in Canberra where I happened to be, and made a special trip to be at the 2011 conference in Melbourne, but unfortunately can't make it to Brisbane this time around. Instead, I'll be watching the action
- [Cuddly robot seals assist in dementia care](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/cuddly-robot-seals-assist-in-dementia-care/) - When I was a child, I had a toy from Seaworld that was a baby seal, and man I loved that little guy. I also had a Furby, one of those fluffy toy robots that took the world by storm in 1999, and are having a major comeback now. Little did I know that, had
- [Cuddly robot seals assist in dementia care](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/cuddly-robot-seals-assist-in-dementia-care/) - When I was a child, I had a toy from Seaworld that was a baby seal, and man I loved that little guy. I also had a Furby, one of those fluffy toy robots that took the world by storm in 1999, and are having a major comeback now. Little did I know that, had
- [New approach to gently insert DNA into cells with high-tech lasers](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/new-approach-to-gently-insert-dna-into-cells-with-high-tech-lasers/) - Ethical concerns aside, gene therapy is a really exciting area of science. How cool to explore the functions of DNA and cellular machinery by inserting exactly what you want into a cell of your choice. How many options to treat disease, create better crops or fun novelties like glow in the dark cats. As an
- [Talking endangered words in Adelaide](https://aschoonerofscience.com/science-communication/talking-endangered-words-in-adelaide/) - On Thursday I'm heading to Adelaide for the Australex 2013 linguistics conference at the University of Adelaide. The topic - Endangered words, and signs of revival. I volunteer with a project to revive an endangered language called Barngarla, which was spoken by Aboriginal people in the Eyre Peninsula of South Australia. During the missionary days
- [3D printers make batteries the size of a grain of sand](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/press-print-for-power/) - To make the sand-sized batteries, scientists printed layers of concentrated lithium oxide-based inks. A 3D printer squeezed out interlacing anodes and cathodes using a nozzle finer than a human hair.
- [Astronaut sings Bowie's Space Oddity - on the International Space Station](https://aschoonerofscience.com/just-for-fun/astronaut-sings-bowies-space-oddity-on-the-international-space-station/) - How cool is this? Astronaut Chris Hadfield sings Space Oddity from the International Space Station. He is floating in a most peculiar way, as the guitar spins in front of him. In another video he talks about having to re-learn guitar in zero gravity, as his brain had to adjust for the lack of weight
- [Congratulations to The Tesla Science Centre - it's going to happen!](https://aschoonerofscience.com/science-communication/congratulations-to-the-tesla-science-centre-its-going-to-happen/) - I was so pleased to see on The Oatmeal this morning that the Tesla Science Centre will be going ahead - they've purchased the land where Nikola Tesla's old laboratory stood and still have $800,000 in the bank to start cleaning it up and building the interactive museum. This is the best crowd-funded campaign I've
- [Shape-shifting devices, gadgets for the future](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/shape-shifting-devices-gadgets-for-the-future/) - These devices transform on demand, bending up to hide personal information or curving around to make a console for playing games. It sounds like the future for mobile phones
- [Happy fourth blogaversary](https://aschoonerofscience.com/jibber-jabber/happy-fourth-blogaversary/) - Sorry for the unscheduled downtime last week, all the issues have been sorted now (I think) and we're back! Just in time for... A Schooner of Science's fourth birthday! Hooray! If you want to help me celebrate, why not buy me a beer? To date, the Schooner has been running on dreams and tap water,
- [Carnivorous snails, so how does that work?](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/carnivorous-snails/) - Carnivorous snails have huge hooks on their tongue, and when they catch up with their snail prey, the predator just licks away until there's nothing left.
- [Brains compensate for a stuffy nose](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/brains-compensate-for-a-stuffy-nose/) - Have you ever noticed how quickly your sense of smell returns? Almost as soon as the sniffles are gone, you're back to sniffing roses, and new research is finding out how our brain can adjust so fast to changes in sensory input.
- [Gift Ideas for a Chemist or Chemistry Grad](https://aschoonerofscience.com/just-for-fun/gift-ideas-for-a-chemist-or-chemistry-grad/) - Chemistry is a most excellent discipline full of colourful chemicals, of peering into a world of unknown forces, and of creating new materials that have never before existed ever. To show the chemist in your life how much you appreciate their saving the world on your behalf (yes, Chemists are superheroes. You didn't know?) here
- [Observations on a sedated cat, and links to Chlorpromazine, an antipsychotic in humans](https://aschoonerofscience.com/drugs/observations-of-a-sedated-cat-and-links-to-chlorpromazine-an-antipsychotic-in-humans/) - What a year! I've been around the world (Canada, USA, Argentina, Chile, Denmark, Germany, France, Ireland, England, Hong Kong) to be finally reunited with my kitty cat Phobos back in Adelaide, Australia. I know most pirates have a parrot, but I prefer my pets fluffy. I had just over a month in my home town
- [Visiting the Royal Institution of Great Britain](https://aschoonerofscience.com/science-communication/visiting-the-royal-institution-of-great-britain/) - This story has been a month in the making, and I should have just posted it back then! I've been really busy with visiting Hong Kong and coming back to Adelaide and seeing friends and family again, excuses excuses. Still, here 'tis, better late than never. One of the things I was most excited to
- [Toothbrushes and breath testers for tuberculosis](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/toothbrushes-and-breath-testers-for-tuberculosis/) - Tuberculosis is a major health issue, with around a third of the world's population infected with the bacteria mycobacterium tuberculosis. Not all these people actually have signs of illness, only 10% will go on to have any symptoms during their life. For the rest it remains latent, the bacteria is present but not causing any problems. As
- [When a joke tickles the Broca area in your brain...](https://aschoonerofscience.com/just-for-fun/when-a-joke-tickles-the-broca-area-in-your-brain/) - Ever wondered what happens when you hear a joke? Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net
- [New species of supercute slow loris](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/new-species-of-supercute-slow-loris/) - With huge eyes peering through a bundle of fluff, slow lorises are the epitome of adorable. Just look at that face! And that's just what scientists have done - looking at the facial markings of slow lorises to identify one completely new species, and officially recognising two more as unique which had previously been considered
- [On the lost and foundness of blogging](https://aschoonerofscience.com/uncategorized/on-the-lost-and-foundness-of-blogging/) - We were 90% sure it was gone. At one point this week, we were 100% sure. Through an old e-mail address, a missed reminder to pay for server space, and a dash of travel confusion, the Schooner was deleted. Unfortunately, just a few days earlier, we'd also deleted our back-up of it. Let this be
- [Powering devices with the battery in your ear](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/powering-devices-with-the-battery-in-your-ear/) - Did you know there's a battery in your inner ear? It was news to me when I found this on EurekAlert.com. Turns out not only is there a natural battery, but a group is working to utilise it to run medical devices. The natural role of your ear battery is to turn sound vibrations into
- [Oh no, it's been so long since my last update!](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/oh-no-its-been-so-long-since-my-last-update/) - Oh dear, I'm seriously struggling to keep up this blog at the moment. Europe is just so distracting! So many pretty things to see and history to learn, when I get home I usually just zonk out and berate myself silently for not having the strength to blog. I did see another cool clock today,
- [Talk like a pirate day!](https://aschoonerofscience.com/uncategorized/talk-like-a-pirate-day/) - Arr, it be talk like a pirate day yet again! Be sure to get yer pirate talk on, mateys, and make the most of this special occasion! Sadly, there ain't be much happenin' in Lubeck, where I am on this fine day, but even without an official parrrty I will be celebratin' all the same!.
- [Brilliant brass astronomical clock in Denmark's finest castle](https://aschoonerofscience.com/science-art/brilliant-brass-astronomical-clock-in-denmarks-finest-castle/) - Sorry for the lack of posting, I'm currently in Denmark and out most days visiting castles and museums. It's a hard life! I recently went to a renaissance castle just North of Copenhagen called Frederiksborg Slot. It was a bit of an accident, actually, because I was looking for Hamlet's castle at Helsingor and got
- [Nikola Tesla, the best geek in the world](https://aschoonerofscience.com/just-for-fun/nikola-tesla-the-best-geek-in-the-world/) - This is the greatest comic I have ever read. Of course, it comes from that brilliant, somewhat bent mind of The Oatmeal - who's take on life is always on the most hilarious angle (such as how to have a pet Tyrannosaurus.) But on this piece he's a little more serious. He begins with the
- [The brewer's yoke, the domestication of microbes](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/the-brewers-yoke-domestication-viewed-by-a-microbe/) - Something happened when I was spliced. Some random event in my chromosomes, I suppose. In any event, I wound up lacking. My sister took all the toxin genes.
- [Good God Particle, is that the Higgs boson?](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/good-god-particle-is-that-the-higgs-boson/) - CERN have discovered a new particle, and it looks like the elusive Higgs boson, the subatomic particle that, theoretically, gives mass to everything.
- [Heaven in a grain of sand](https://aschoonerofscience.com/science-art/heaven-in-a-grain-of-sand/) - I'm in San Pedro de Atacama, Chile, just next door to the Atacama desert, the highest desert in the world. So what better than a post about sand? To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in
- [Transit of Venus - it's happening tomorrow!](https://aschoonerofscience.com/science-communication/transit-of-venus-its-happening-tomorrow/) - Unless I've got the time difference wrong, the Transit of Venus is happening tomorrow! That's where Venus crosses between us and the Sun, the rarest of all eclipses. The next one happens in 2117, over a century away, so don't miss this one. Australians can see it on 6 June 2012 in the morning until
- [SKA decision announced, split between Aus and South Africa](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/ska-decision-announced-split-between-aus-and-south-africa/) - Members of the SKA Organisation have just announced the locations - there's two of them - for the square kilometre array, which will revolutionise astronomy with the world's most sensitive radio telescope peering into the dawn of the Universe. South Africa was chosen to host most of the SKA, including all the dishes and mid-frequency
- [Paper-based device tests blood type, Harry Potter style](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/paper-based-device-tests-blood-type-harry-potter-style/) - An easy to read blood test spells out your results, and the diagnostic device was developed with Harry Potter in mind, say researchers from Monash University. It's even easier to read than the books! Monash describe it as "the first equipment-free, bioactive paper-based diagnostic device capable of reporting multiple conditions in written text." How does
- [Happy birthday blog](https://aschoonerofscience.com/uncategorized/happy-birthday-blog/) - Who'd have thought it? A Schooner of Science turned three just the other day. They grow up so fast... Here in Seattle the tulips are blooming, spring is springing, and they are celebrating the 50th anniversary since the World Fair was held around the space needle. Time flies... Tomorrow I'm going down the west coast
- [Catch the wind with a sailing GPS, arrr!](https://aschoonerofscience.com/just-for-fun/catch-the-wind-with-a-sailing-gps-arrr/) - 'Twas getting dark and mighty cloudy as I consulted, yet again, the map. An X, in red like clotted blood, marked dead Betsie's buried treasure. That magnificent cow had plowed these oceans, churning the sea foam to cream, for years beyond her species, yet in the end we all come to naught... She mooed her
- [It's eggbot!](https://aschoonerofscience.com/just-for-fun/its-eggbot/) - Happy Easter everyone! And if you don't celebrate, than happy spring themed holidays that happen in August in the Southern Hemisphere. Check out this robot ($195) that decorates eggs, golf balls, baubles and other strangely shaped objects. You can make designs from Inkspace on Mac, Windows or Linux. How geeky and Eastery is that? Their
- [Chasing the aurora](https://aschoonerofscience.com/how-things-work/chasing-the-aurora/) - A brisk wind flowed through the trees as I retreat for the car. Ignition on, -17°C outside, warm air flows through the vents. Another cold clear night – perfect for viewing the elusive aurora borealis. We'd been sitting out for almost two hours, but it was 1:20 am and we were throwing in the snap
- [Feminist and Aboriginal science with Lillian Dyck #AAASmtg](https://aschoonerofscience.com/science-communication/feminist-and-aboriginal-science-with-lillian-dyck-aaasmtg/) - Hon. Lillian Dyck, first female and Aboriginal senator in Canada, took the stage at the AAAS conference to discuss western science, feminist science and Aboriginal science. Subjectivity is inherent in the western scientific method, she said. We use inductive reasoning, interpret data, and models that are not ideal (eg. animals). A hypothesis may be generated
- [Opening ceremony of the AAAS 2012 conference](https://aschoonerofscience.com/science-communication/opening-ceremony-of-the-aaas-2012-conference/) - Nina Fedoroff speaks at the opening of the 2012 American Association for the Advancement of Science, February 2012.
- [In Vancouver](https://aschoonerofscience.com/jibber-jabber/in-vancouver/) - Ahoy me hearties! Thought I'd post a quick one to say I'm on the other side of the world. Arrived today in Vancouver, ready for the AAAS annual meeting to start in a few days. So I'm feeling pretty exhausted! I'll recover some energy before making a big push to post plenty of contact during
- [Call out to Aussies! Watch transit of Venus on the tall ship Endeavour](https://aschoonerofscience.com/science-at-home/call-out-to-aussies-watch-transit-of-venus-on-the-tall-ship-endeavour/) - Australians can sail the tall ship replica Endeavour in 2012 to watch the transit of Venus from Lord Howe Island. It's the rarest of eclipses, and I'm going to miss it!
- [Trojan atom](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/trojan-atom/) - What kind of control we can wield over atoms! An electron orbiting an excited potassium atom has been confined with radio waves to mimic the movement of the Trojan asteroids of Jupiter. The Trojan asteroids precede and follow Jupiter as it orbits the sun, like an entourage of bodyguards around royalty. Earth's first Trojan asteroid
- [Trojan atom](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/trojan-atom/) - What kind of control we can wield over atoms! An electron orbiting an excited potassium atom has been confined with radio waves to mimic the movement of the Trojan asteroids of Jupiter. The Trojan asteroids precede and follow Jupiter as it orbits the sun, like an entourage of bodyguards around royalty. Earth's first Trojan asteroid
- [Which animal has the longest tail?](https://aschoonerofscience.com/just-for-fun/which-animal-has-the-longest-tail/) - I'm pretty fond of doing the Saturday quiz in the Adelaide newspaper, though I never keep score. I mean, who knows who won the Olympic backstroke in 1978? That was before I was born! I can't let that drag down my credit rating, you know. Anyway, last week it asked which land mammal has the
- [A little something something from a bluehead wrasse fish](https://aschoonerofscience.com/just-for-fun/a-little-something-something-from-a-bluehead-wrasse-fish/) - I know, I know. It's been awhile. Bad pirate! Post-holiday pillaging and plundering, time got away from me. Not to worry, I've harpooned it and got a handle on things now. So, just a quick one to tide ye olde blog over 'till I'm properly back on decks. Thought I'd share this rather funny column
- [Christmas chemistry, the science of holly ](https://aschoonerofscience.com/poisons/christmas-chemistry-the-science-of-holly/) - Holly includes about 400 species in the genus Ilex. About 20 or 30 of those bright berries can kill an adult, though leaves can be used in traditional drinks like mate.
- [Vampire squid on Occupy Wall Street, biology of Vampyroteuthis infernalis](https://aschoonerofscience.com/the-realm-of-bizzare/vampire-squid-on-occupy-wall-street-biology-of-vampyroteuthis-infernalis/) - Vampyroteuthis infernalis means vampire squid from hell, but it's not even technically a squid. Or an octopus. It's got an order all of it's own. They have a consistency similar to a jellyfish, quite gelatinous. Like many jellyfish, it swims by shooting out a jet of water behind it to propel it forward,
- [Eyewear made by 3D printers, designed by you](https://aschoonerofscience.com/science-art/eyewear-made-by-3d-printers-designed-by-you/) - Someone I met in the sci-comm scene in Canberra last year is making it possible for the public to use 3D printing to design eyewear. A few companies give the public access to the technology, but I like that this one is all about the eyewear (you know... sea-glare.) Three dimensional printing creates objects by
- [Museum of South Australia exhibition on barcode of life](https://aschoonerofscience.com/science-art/museum-of-south-australia-exhibition-on-barcode-of-life/) - For those of you who live in or around Adelaide, I recommend popping into the SA Museum and checking out a funky artwork by Joseph Rossano. It's just in the foyer (past the security people, before the staircase) and features a set of big, blue butterflies behind frosted glass. The butterflies look blurry - on
- [Science behind the headlines - beyond seven billion people](https://aschoonerofscience.com/science-communication/science-behind-the-headlines-beyond-seven-billion-people/) - In the 20th century we added five billion people to the Earth. Before that, we had only added two billion in total. Part of the reason is a decreased death rate, due to better medical facilities, coupled with an increase of food
- [Notes from the international barcode of life conference #bol4](https://aschoonerofscience.com/science-communication/notes-from-the-international-barcode-of-life-conference-bol4/) - DNA barcoding database, open access, matches barcode regions from unknown samples to a species. People have used it to check out the slice of fish in sushi, illegally collected shark fins and more.
- [Future floating laboratory, prospectus of the HMS Beagle Project](https://aschoonerofscience.com/science-communication/future-floating-laboratory-prospectus-of-the-hms-beagle-project/) - This exciting project which plans to build a modern version of Darwin and FitzRoy’s tall ship the HMS Beagle kitted out as a floating laboratory.
- [More coral crochet (and brief patterns)](https://aschoonerofscience.com/science-art/more-coral-crochet-and-brief-patterns/) - My coral submissions for Adelaide's crochet reef, with notes on the patterns I used. Fire coral and rope coral with kelp.
- [The physics of pink - why it isn't in the rainbow](https://aschoonerofscience.com/science-communication/the-physics-of-pink-why-it-isnt-in-the-rainbow/) - "Did you know there's no pink in the rainbow?" my brother asked in the car. "Yeah, it always used to bug me in playschool. 'Pink and yellow and purple and green?' Why couldn't they just put them in order of wavelength!' I said. "Or teach the Richard of York gave battle in vain acronym so
- [Did I hear you right? McGurk and other illusions](https://aschoonerofscience.com/science-at-home/did-i-hear-you-right-mcgurk-and-other-illusions/) - What you see changes how you hear. A video silently mouths "ga" while audio plays "ba" and you hear the sound "da." Close your eyes and the effect stops.
- [University of Adelaide research week begins](https://aschoonerofscience.com/science-communication/university-of-adelaide-research-week-begins/) - Today marks the start of Research Week at the University of Adelaide, so if you're SA based like me, might be worth heading in for a look. Monday 5pm there's a seminar on wind energy that looks good. We're always spotting turbines when we road-trip to Melbourne. On my way to Whyalla for a science
- [Prehistoric kraken lair with fossilised 'self-portrait'? Probs not.](https://aschoonerofscience.com/just-for-fun/prehistoric-kraken-lair-with-fossilised-self-portrait-probs-not/) - It would be remiss of me not to write about this wonderful, but rather unlikely story, given its about a subject close to my heart - giant squids. Within Nevada's Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park are nine fossilised remains of ichthyosaurs, marine reptiles that looked a little like dolphins, but much bigger. Nine remains all in one
- [Crocheting a coral reef](https://aschoonerofscience.com/science-art/crocheting-a-coral-reef/) - Handmade crochet pieces of a coral reef on exhibition at Adelaide's RiAus.
- [Tales of the demon core](https://aschoonerofscience.com/poisons/tales-of-the-demon-core/) - On August 21, 1945, the demon core claimed its first victim. Harry Daghlian was at Los Alamos, a secret laboratory which worked on the Manhattan Project.
- [Green potatoes are poisonous](https://aschoonerofscience.com/science-at-home/green-potatoes-are-poisonous/) - So I was cooking dinner tonight and had a hankering for potato wedges. Unfortunately, in a fit of nonsense I had put my potato in the fruit basket to ripen. Ridiculous. So it had turned greenish. Now I'm a pretty frugal, food-saving kinda person and hate throwing stuff out, but I had a feeling that
- [Photographs from the first day of spring](https://aschoonerofscience.com/science-at-home/photographs-from-the-first-day-of-spring/) - Spring has sprung here in South Australia, bees buzz in the blossoming trees and the air is warm and sweetly scented. So I took my camera for a stroll around my neighbourhood and took some pictures to capture the first day of spring. Wattle - nothing says Australian spring so much as the smell and
- [Hen mothers for ducklings, cross-fostering species](https://aschoonerofscience.com/sex-and-reproduction/hen-mothers-for-ducklings-cross-fostering-species/) - Cross-foster parents raise children of another species. It rescued New Zealand's Black Robin from extinction, raising numbers from five to 250.
- [My picks for National Science Week 2011 (dinosaurs, quizes and citizen science)](https://aschoonerofscience.com/science-communication/my-picks-for-national-science-week-2011-dinosaurs-quizes-and-citizen-science/) - So it's that time of the year again - National Science Week. Want to augment reality with Jurassic Park dinosaurs, DIY quiz night or do some citizen science?
- [Exploring the blurry line between colony and individual ](https://aschoonerofscience.com/the-realm-of-bizzare/exploring-the-blurry-line-between-colony-and-individual/) - What makes something a colony or individual? When it comes to the portuguese man-o-war, aspen trees and giant underground fungi the line isn't so clear.
- [The red queen, sex and nematode worms](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/the-red-queen-sex-and-nematode-worms/) - As a host adapts to fight the parasite, the parasite evolves to infect the host. It's an endless race, and extinction faces the first organism to stop running.
- [The electric, flashy development of tadpoles](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/the-electric-flashy-development-of-tadpoles/) - Bioelectric patterns flash across the developing tadpole face, outlining the future positions of eyes, nose and mouth.
- [Happy Pi Day!](https://aschoonerofscience.com/just-for-fun/happy-pi-day/) - Hooray, it's Friday Pi Day! Today, 22 July, is Pi Approximation Day - 22/7 being a sweet close-to value for that wonderful mathematical constant. Celebrate by eating pie, either for dinner or dessert (or both!) and indulging in a pint of your favourite beverage.
- [On being busy and finding time to write](https://aschoonerofscience.com/jibber-jabber/on-being-busy-and-finding-time-to-write/) - So you may have noticed my blogging schedule has been a little lax lately. I've been pretty busy with other writing and research, and been finding it really hard to give the blog attention and love. To balance things, I'm dropping my posting frequency down to once a week. I just wanted to let you
- [Alcoholic art, crystals of liquor](https://aschoonerofscience.com/just-for-fun/alcoholic-art-crystals-of-liquor/) - Bevshots take photographs of alcohol crystallized on a slide, shot under a polarized light microscope. The results are stunning.
- [Spongiforma squarepantsii, fungus found in Borneo](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/spongiforma-squarepantsii-fungus-found-in-borneo/) - Named for the best cartoon character ever, Spongebob Squarepants, this recently discovered species is not a sponge, but a fungus.
- [Modelling catastrophic dam collapse and natural disasters](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/modelling-catastrophic-dam-collapse-and-natural-disasters/) - CSIRO scientists model the collapse of Geheyan Dam. Data visualisation informs emergency procedures and ensures infrastructure is built in protected areas.
- [Genetically engineered 'transgender' goats makes poor reporting](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/genetically-engineered-transgender-goats-makes-poor-reporting/) - "Scientists genetically engineer female 'Frankenstein' goats in male bodies to create 'human' breast milk" exclaimed Daily Mail. What's really going on here?
- [Nubia, irrigation and parasitic worms, a tale told by a Mummy](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/nubia-irrigation-and-parasitic-worms-a-tale-told-by-a-mummy/) - Early irrigation channels changed how humans were affected by parasites. The study used mummies from Ancient Nubia.
- [Mind share, musings on social connection via technology](https://aschoonerofscience.com/science-communication/mind-share-musings-on-social-connection-via-technology/) - “Catch up for a coffee at 5?” I smsed a friend. I had to be at the RiAus at 6 for the Mind Share talk with Mark Pesce. “Yep, see you then.” I met her at the usual place, creatures of habit that we are. At the RiAus I settled into a chair with my
- [SKA, supercomputers and information technology](https://aschoonerofscience.com/how-things-work/ska-supercomputers-and-information-technology/) - Every day the SKA will collect one exabyte of data. That's a ten with 17 zeros behind it, a binary bucketload of information.
- [Exploring first light from the cosmic dark ages](https://aschoonerofscience.com/uncategorized/exploring-first-light-from-the-cosmic-dark-ages/) - One major project the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will be working on is first light, how light arose in the Universe. A quick recap on the SKA: It's a radio telescope 10,000 times more powerful than current models. Made up of dishes linked to a data processing unit, the instrument will stretch at least 3,000
- [SKA – Something Kinda Awesome and a tremendous telescope](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/ska-–-something-kinda-awesome-and-a-tremendous-telescope/) - It's a radio telescope 10,000 times more powerful than any other, a single scientific instrument made from dish antennas 15 metres wide working together.
- [The white whale, sighted, in pursuit](https://aschoonerofscience.com/just-for-fun/the-white-whale-sighted-in-pursuit/) - The white whale has been sighted off the starboard bow, and I'm hard on its trail. All hands to decks, no time for telling tales!
- [Ferrofluid patterns and dancing art, fun with magnets](https://aschoonerofscience.com/just-for-fun/ferrofluid-patterns-and-dancing-art-fun-with-magnets/) - Behold ferrofluid, nanoparticles of iron suspended in a solution of oil or water. Spinning spiky in magnetic fields, this art installation dances with music.
- [Ferrofluid patterns and dancing art, fun with magnets](https://aschoonerofscience.com/just-for-fun/ferrofluid-patterns-and-dancing-art-fun-with-magnets/) - Behold ferrofluid, nanoparticles of iron suspended in a solution of oil or water. Spinning spiky in magnetic fields, this art installation dances with music.
- [A Schooner of Science turns two](https://aschoonerofscience.com/just-for-fun/a-schooner-of-science-turns-two/) - Today marks the second anniversary of A Schooner of Science. 'Tis a time to reflect, to appreciate, to eat cake.
- [Science sculptures - art by Steve Tobin](https://aschoonerofscience.com/science-art/science-sculptures-art-by-steve-tobin/) - Drawing inspiration from nature, Steve Tobin's art examines root systems, syntax, glass waterfalls and bronze bones.
- [Platypus. Poisonous, egg laying mammal with ten sex chromosomes](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/platypus-poisonous-egg-laying-mammal-with-ten-sex-chromosomes/) - The platypus is the strangest animal on the planet. It's poisonous, senses electricity, lays eggs, secretes milk through its skin and has 10 sex chromosomes.
- [Video game addiction - why I can never have an iPhone](https://aschoonerofscience.com/science-at-home/video-game-addiction-why-i-can-never-have-an-iphone/) - Before writing this post, I played Fruit Ninja for an hour. It's a cute app on my partner's iPhone where you slice fruit in half and try to get the highest score possible in a minute. My high score? 599. This is why I can never have an iPhone - because I would play ridiculously
- [Top ten science tricks for parties](https://aschoonerofscience.com/science-at-home/top-ten-science-tricks-for-parties/) - Having a party over the Easter break? Add some science with these party tricks.
- [Sex and mosquitoes - transmitting the Zika virus](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/sex-and-mosquitoes-transmitting-the-zika-virus/) - A new study suggests the first documented case of an insect-borne disease being transmitted sexually.
- [Science and social media: #IAconf](https://aschoonerofscience.com/science-communication/science-and-social-media-iaconf/) - Finally, the one I'd been waiting for, science and social media. Kristin Alford from Bridge 8 moderated the discussion, but let the discussion grow naturally. To set the scene, there were 30 of us in a small carpeted room with no wifi (/cry) sitting on chairs in a circle. After a succinct rant about how
- [Science IS Inspiring: Day Two at #IAconf](https://aschoonerofscience.com/science-communication/day-two-at-iaconf/) - Last night there was a swanky dinner at the Melbourne Museum, but I unfortunately wasn't there. Instead, I had dinner with a good friend in her bohemian sharehouse with giant spiders and friendly neighbours. Everyone was looking a little bleary-eyed at 9am, when day two started. Thomas Barlow, author of “The Australian Miracle: An innovative
- [Telling good science stories - #IAconf](https://aschoonerofscience.com/uncategorized/telling-good-science-stories-iaconf/) - Here are some notes gathered at the Inspiring Australia conference on how to write good science stories. This is all about public relations and writing a good media release. There wasn't much about creating a narrative, or fact-based fiction work, or creative non-fiction. If anyone can recommend a good source for that stuff I'd love
- [Getting started in science blogging](https://aschoonerofscience.com/science-communication/getting-started-in-science-blogging/) - Today at the conference I ran a "birds of a feather" networking session on starting a science blog. If you've ever thought about blogging, my recommendation is DO IT! And do it for YOU, not for an agenda. It's a big time commitment, and usually unpaid (at least at first.) If you're not doing something
- [Inspiring Australia Conference - Day One](https://aschoonerofscience.com/science-communication/inspiring-australia-conference-day-one/) - Today was day one of the Inspiring Australia Conference. An unfortunate technology problem left us with no wifi this morning, so twitter (#IAconf) was sadly silent. Not only did my dongle have no juice, but we were in a bit of a dead zone for phone reception. All was quiet on the eastern front. Luckily
- [DeforestACTION Orangutan Outreach](https://aschoonerofscience.com/science-communication/deforestaction-orangutan-outreach/) - DeforestACTION are sending young adults to Borneo to raise awareness about habitat destruction. They will live in the jungle for 5 months, saving apes.
- [Introducing Open Lab 2010](https://aschoonerofscience.com/science-communication/introducing-open-lab-2010/) - Containing the best of science writing on the web, Open Lab 2010 has been published and printed. Inside are 50 blog posts, 6 poems and a cartoon
- [The secret science behind movie stunts and special effects](https://aschoonerofscience.com/science-at-home/the-secret-science-behind-movie-stunts-and-special-effects/) - Steve Wolf's book on special effects aims to inspire school children with science. It covers topics like states of matter, pressure, and explosions.
- [Super cute kittens conceived by science](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/super-cute-kittens-conceived-by-science/) - Rare African black-footed cats were conceived through IVF from frozen sperm in an attempt to keep the species alive.
- [Gummi bear explosion (and other experiments)](https://aschoonerofscience.com/just-for-fun/gummi-bear-explosion-and-other-experiments/) - Enjoy what happens when a gummi bear is dropped into potassium chlorate. Find out how it works and watch other gummi bear experiments.
- [The Stupid Species - a science comedy](https://aschoonerofscience.com/just-for-fun/the-stupid-species-a-science-comedy/) - Daniel Keogh's 18+ science comedy show "The Stupid Species - Why Everyone (except you) is an Idiot" is a playful romp through the psychology of stupidity.
- [So many baby octopuses](https://aschoonerofscience.com/just-for-fun/so-many-baby-octopuses/) - Baby octopus hatching caught on video, as thousands of tiny creatures swim for the surface.
- [ChemWiki, free textbook for University students](https://aschoonerofscience.com/science-communication/chemwiki-free-textbook-for-university-students/) - An open access textbook, ChemWiki is a collaborative approach towards chemistry education.
- [Filming the invisible world - 3D documentaries](https://aschoonerofscience.com/science-communication/filming-the-invisible-world-3d-documentaries/) - Stereographers and visualisation experts disillusioned with fiction are finding ways to make film an immersive experience hyper-real using 3D.
- [Found - Three New Species of Australian Dinosaurs](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/found-three-new-species-of-australian-dinosaurs/) - Can you really call them "new" species, when they have been extinct for millions years? Perhaps a better title would be "Found - Three Previously Unidentified Species of Australian Dinosaurs"... but new sounds catchier. Anyhoo, being an Australian girl I was pretty chuffed to hear that some new dinosaur fossils have been uncovered in Queensland,
- [Brontomerus mcintoshi - the dinosaur with thunder thighs](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/brontomerus-mcintoshi-the-dinosaur-with-thunder-thighs/) - With massive thighs capable of delivering a killer kick, Brontomerus could have used it's legs when fighting over mates or defending against predators.
- [Solar flare stops satellites in China ](https://aschoonerofscience.com/science-at-home/solar-flare-stops-satellites-in-china/) - A solar flare the size of Jupiter erupted a few days ago and is now causing radio and satellite signals to drop out in China. On Valentine's Day, the sun had a coronal mass ejection associated with a flare, a burst of solar wind that speeds through space. The ejected material is usually plasma and
- [Changing Waters Art Exhibition](https://aschoonerofscience.com/science-art/changing-waters-art-exhibition/) - These amazing sculptures are the creation of Nathalie Miebach, a visual exploration of scientific data collected at the Gulf of Maine. Here's a quote from her website: “Changing Waters” looks at the meteorological and oceanic interactions within the Gulf of Maine. Using data from NOAA and GOMOSS buoys within the Gulf of Maine, as well
- [Inspiring Australia and the barcode of life, conferences](https://aschoonerofscience.com/science-communication/inspiring-australia-and-the-barcode-of-life-conferences/) - Interesting science conferences coming up this year in Australia. Inspiring Australia is in March, Melbourne. The barcode of life is in November, Adelaide
- [A night of chocolate at the RiAus](https://aschoonerofscience.com/science-communication/a-night-of-chocolate-at-the-riaus/) - Tonight at the RiAus in Adelaide, the spotlight is on chocolate addictions and gluttony
- [Death of a hive, a science story](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/death-of-a-hive-a-science-story/) - It was late afternoon, and Aethina could smell a hive in danger and felt compelled to investigate. The scent wafted softly though the hot and hazy air
- [Radioactive decay of teaspoons in the workplace](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/radioactive-decay-of-teaspoons-in-the-workplace/) - Measuring how fast teaspoons were lost in the office, scientists calculated a teaspoon half-life of 81 days and an annual loss of $100. Why do they disappear?
- [The case of the baffling block](https://aschoonerofscience.com/just-for-fun/the-case-of-the-baffling-block/) - Is this plank the very origin of all that is South?
- [A Gingerbread Laboratory](https://aschoonerofscience.com/science-at-home/a-gingerbread-laboratory/) - With helipad, smarties, jelly beans, mint leaves, marshmallows and licorice allsorts and icing sinks to ensure proper hygiene.
- [Sometimes scientists just have to douse experiments in alcohol](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/sometimes-scientists-just-have-to-douse-experiments-in-alcohol/) - Scientists get drunk and pour their beverages on compounds to create superconductors. It's surprisingly effective.
- [A Vampire Flying Frog by any other name...](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/a-vampire-flying-frog-by-any-other-name/) - The vampire flying frog was discovered in 2010. It can glide from tree to tree, and changes colour at night but it's the tadpole fangs that are really cool...
- [Oh, Oh OMG I'm included in Open Lab 2010!](https://aschoonerofscience.com/jibber-jabber/oh-oh-omg-im-included-in-open-lab-2010/) - A Schooner of Science will be included in the 2010 Open Lab book, which will be published in February and available online and in some stores.
- [Science of electronic cigarettes, as seen on the Tourist](https://aschoonerofscience.com/how-things-work/science-of-electronic-cigarettes-as-seen-on-the-tourist/) - The fake cigarette smoked by Johnny Depp in The Tourist is an electronic delivery system for flavoured nicotine vapour, a safer alternative to smoking.
- [Merry Christmas from Captain Skellett](https://aschoonerofscience.com/jibber-jabber/merry-christmas-from-captain-skellett/) - Here's wishing you a Merry Christmas. My motto is "If it ain't merry, drink more rum!" Thank ye for reading me blog this year, this blog wouldn't be the same without you. It's been a very busy and interesting year. I've lived interstate, become a published writer, and pillaged not a few cruise ships. I'm
- [My Christmas baking adventures](https://aschoonerofscience.com/just-for-fun/my-christmas-baking-adventures/) - It's that time of the year and I'm feeling decidedly unchristmassy. Perhaps it's the terror of presents left unpurchased, perhaps it's the missing tree and decorations, perhaps... well screw it. Christmas just skipped me this year. Times like these you need to bake. Something sciencey would be nice, but I'll settle for anything. A gingerbread
- [OpenLab10 - best of the blogs for 2010](https://aschoonerofscience.com/science-communication/openlab10-best-of-the-blogs-for-2010/) - Some of the best science posts from 2010.
- [For love of the pancreas](https://aschoonerofscience.com/how-things-work/for-love-of-the-pancreas/) - The pancreas is an organ with two functions, making enzymes and monitoring blood sugar levels. Total removal of the pancreas has many side effects.
- [Connecting via common ancestors and Genographics - Interview with Wolfgang Haak](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/connecting-wirh-common-ancestors-and-genographics-interview-with-wolfgang-haak/) - At the Genographic Project event in Adelaide I interviewed Dr Wolfgang Haak, who spoke about Y-chromosome markers to determine paternal ancestry.
- [Genographics, Neanderthals and Cannibalism, an Interview with Carles Lalueza-Fox](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/genographics-neanderthals-and-cannibalism-an-interview-with-carles-lalueza-fox/) - I speak to Prof Dr Carles Lalueza‑Fox for a quick interview about Neanderthals and the Genographic Project.
- [The Genographic Project in Adelaide](https://aschoonerofscience.com/science-communication/the-genographic-project-in-adelaide/) - Thoughts from the Genographic Project event in Adelaide on Tuesday, 7 December 2010
- [New MolBio Carnival is up!](https://aschoonerofscience.com/jibber-jabber/new-molbio-carnival-is-up/) - Ahoy there, A quick note to send you over to me good mate Lab Rat, who blogs regularly about the amazing world of microorganisms and provides insights into life as a lab rat. She's the host for the latest MolBio Carnival, a collection of the best blogs on molecular biology about. I'm honoured to have
- [How marsupial embryos develop (a short story)](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/how-marsupial-embryos-develop-a-short-story/) - Marsupials are just plain weird when it comes to procreating. I'm not talking about bifurcated penises (where the penis has two heads) although that's pretty freaking weird. I'm talking about the embryos. When a baby marsupial is born after a 4-5 week gestation, it's a tiny pink speck of nothing much. About the same size
- [Science that's only skin deep](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/science-thats-only-skin-deep/) - Skin colour gives people highest fertility for their environment. It's a balance between folic acid and Vitamin D based on UV light and natural selection.
- [Gift Ideas for a Microbiologist or Pathologist](https://aschoonerofscience.com/just-for-fun/gift-ideas-for-a-microbiologist-or-pathologist/) - Clothing, toys and assorted items for the scientist in your life.
- [Gift ideas for a biochemist, medical scientist or neuroscientist](https://aschoonerofscience.com/jibber-jabber/gift-ideas-for-a-biochemist-medical-scientist-or-neuroscientist/) - Jewelry, brains, magnets and art for the scientist in your life.
- [What is a light cone?](https://aschoonerofscience.com/how-things-work/what-is-a-light-cone/) - Light cones are a way to represent light moving through Spacetime. Find out what they are and why we care in this simple explanation.
- [Physics of lapping lets cats drink without mess](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/physics-of-lapping-lets-cats-drink-without-mess/) - Cats drink by pulling water up into the air with inertia, defying gravity. This technique could help cats keep whiskers clean. See a super slow-mo video
- [CERN trap 38 atoms of antimatter](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/cern-trap-38-atoms-of-antimatter/) - Antimatter has been trapped by a magnetic field allowing it to be studied in detail. This technique allowed the antihydrogen to last for a tenth of a second
- [Bacteria solve sudoku](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/bacteria-solve-sudoku/) - Tokyo scientists genetically engineer e-coli to solve sudoku puzzles for iGEM 2010.
- [Rare footage of the giant jellyfish](https://aschoonerofscience.com/the-realm-of-bizzare/rare-footage-of-the-giant-jellyfish/) - A giant jellyfish, Stygiomedusa gigantea, was filmed in the Gulf of Mexico. Tentacles 10 meters long, bell over half a meter wide. Check out the video.
- [Gold nanoparticles make plants glow in the dark](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/gold-nanoparticles-make-plants-glow-in-the-dark/) - Gold nanoparticles shaped like sea urchins can make plants glow and emit light. They absorb through the surface of leaves and last for months.
- [Microbes, photographic film and a self portrait](https://aschoonerofscience.com/science-art/microbes-photographic-film-and-a-self-portrait/) - This art is made of film degraded by bacteria. It's a self-portrait of the artist Erno-Eric Raitanen. The bacteria was harvested from his own body and cultivated on the gelatin surface of photographic film. It's a similar process to growing bacteria on a plate of agar. As the bacteria gnaw away at the gelatin, the
- [Thought controlled computers? Recent research says yes.](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/thought-controlled-computers-recent-research-says-yes/) - You could one day control your computer using only your mind. Research subjects chose between two images and made one fill the screen using thought alone.
- [New monkey species discovered, sneezes when wet](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/new-monkey-species-discovered-sneezes-when-wet/) - Rhinopithecus strykeri, a snub nosed monkey that sneezes when it rains. With black hair from head to tail, in rain they hide their heads under their legs.
- [Big bang theory's big bad blog](https://aschoonerofscience.com/just-for-fun/big-bang-theorys-big-bad-blog/) - This is a link to a blog I heartily recommend. It's written by the tech consultant of The Big Bang Theory sitcom, which ranks higher in Google than the ACTUAL theory of the big bang. It's understandable. If you don't watch The Big Bang Theory, how do you live? I've been addicted for a mere
- [How aqua regia saved Nobel Prize medals from the Nazis](https://aschoonerofscience.com/the-realm-of-bizzare/how-aqua-regia-saved-nobel-prize-medals-from-the-nazis/) - It was a brisk April morning in 1940, and George was in a fix. In his hands were two Nobel Prizes illegally smuggled from Germany, while outside the lab Nazi's swarmed the streets of Copenhagen. Denmark was now occupied by the Germans, and it was only a matter of time before they entered the Institute
- [Have a nap and let your computer cure cancer](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/have-a-nap-and-let-your-computer-cure-cancer/) - Grid computing is discovering new drugs and ways to improve drinking water. It works by personal computers running virtual experiments when not in use.
- [Antibiotic beer, as drunk by the ancient Nubians](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/antibiotic-beer-as-drunk-by-the-ancient-nubians/) - Ancient Nubians regularly drank beer laced with the antibiotic tetracycline to cure infections, suggests scientific research.
- [Antibiotic beer, as drunk by the ancient Nubians](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/antibiotic-beer-as-drunk-by-the-ancient-nubians/) - Ancient Nubians regularly drank beer laced with the antibiotic tetracycline to cure infections, suggests scientific research.
- [New species discovered in Papua New Guinea](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/new-species-discovered-in-papua-new-guinea/) - This katydid is one of the new species discovered in Papua New Guinea during a recent expedition by Conservation International. Another katydid had huge spiky back legs, which it stuck in the air and jabbed at attackers. The researchers discovered it was quite painful. Their goal was to rapidly identify new species and give an
- [Noble Prize in Chemistry - Palladium catalysed reactions](https://aschoonerofscience.com/how-things-work/noble-prize-in-chemistry-palladium-catalysed-reactions/) - The winners of this years Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to Richard F. Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki, for their work in palladium catalysed reactions. Ah, a subject close to my own heart! As a student of Molecular and Drug Design, we studied this shizz in lectures. Hell, I think I even did a
- [Sickle Cell Anemia and Genetic Fence-Sitting](https://aschoonerofscience.com/how-things-work/sickle-cell-anemia-and-genetic-fence-sitting/) - Following on from the theme of biological errors and the noise of life, I thought I'd talk about sickle cell anemia, quite a common ailment inherited Mendelian fashion through recessive genes. If you're new (very new) to genetics, then check out a picture for what I mean by recessive, and click through to Wikipedia to
- [Day Two Nobel Prize Week - Physics goes to graphene](https://aschoonerofscience.com/science-communication/day-two-nobel-prize-week-physics-goes-to-graphene/) - The Nobel Prize in Physics 2010 has just been awarded jointly to Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov "for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene" Graphene, aka "atomic level chicken wire" are carbon atoms packed into a 2D lattice. It's not used to keep molecular chickens in their rightful place, but if it was it
- [Day One Nobel Prize Week - Father of IVF wins Nobel for Medicine](https://aschoonerofscience.com/science-communication/day-one-nobel-prize-week-father-of-ivf-wins-nobel-for-medicine/) - This week is vegetarian week, and it's also the week Nobel Prize winners are announced. Coincidence? I think not. The 2010 prize for Physiology and Medicine was awarded to Robert G. Edwards for the development of in vitro fertilisation. His initial success in creating a blastocyst outside the womb happened in Cambridge in 1968. The
- [Dolphin safe tuna... A dolphin is worth how many fish?](https://aschoonerofscience.com/unethics/dolphin-safe-tuna-a-dolphin-is-worth-how-many-fish/) - In the immortal words of Marge "I brought you a tuna sandwich. They say it's brain food. I guess because there's so much dolphin in it, and you know how smart they are." Dolphin safe tuna is for some of us environmental types a no-brainer like eating free range eggs. I was one such person,
- [Avatar sequel to film deep sea in 3D](https://aschoonerofscience.com/science-in-the-movies/avatar-sequel-to-film-deep-sea-in-3d/) - Say wha-? There's gonna be a sequel to Avatar? Why? I mean, I think the movie was awesome and all, but when it finished it finished. Finito. No more. No dramatic suspense music to imply the indignity of a sequel. No sudden return of a villain. Nada. The story was just Pocahontas, after all. And
- [Medical dictionary translates English to Yolngu Matha](https://aschoonerofscience.com/science-communication/medical-dictionary-translates-english-to-yolngu-matha/) - Yolŋu Matha is a language spoken by the Indigenous Australians of Arnhem Land, in the Northern Territory. To the majority of the people in the communities, English is a second language. There's a twelve year gap in life expectancy between Indigenous people and non-Indigenous people, which is pretty drastic. It's made worse because there's a
- [Talk like a pirate day TODAY](https://aschoonerofscience.com/just-for-fun/talk-like-a-pirate-day-today/) - Arr, it be talk like a pirate day, that most noble of holidays! Would ye like to know how to talk like a true buccaneer? Click through for a dictionary of piratitude! Here be me favourites: Barkeep! Grog! Barkeep! More grog! That's all ye need know. Enough grog and ye'll be talkin' pirate like ye
- [Talk like a pirate day tomorrow!](https://aschoonerofscience.com/just-for-fun/talk-like-a-pirate-day-tomorrow-2/) - Heads up and look sharp, for tomorrow be the best day of the year - talk like a pirate day! Don't miss out, make sure yer talkin' pirate from dawn 'till dusk and well into the night. No matter where ye are, at home, at a conference, shopping, drinking at the pub, the time is
- [Science Lab Cookie Cutters](https://aschoonerofscience.com/just-for-fun/science-lab-cookie-cutters/) - Nothing says nerdy and delicious like a set of science cookie cutters. You can buy a set here, the site is in America but they ship internationally. I think they're pretty cool nerdy cool. On the other hand I like my cookies chock full of chocolate and they might look weird in beaker shapes. Like
- [Depth perception - or why pigeons bob their heads](https://aschoonerofscience.com/how-things-work/depth-perception-or-why-pigeons-bob-their-heads/) - I've been doing some science tricks lately that show the difference between both eyes. Simple one, close your left eye and line your two pointer fingers up with one 10cm behind the other. Get them so they are exactly in line and you can only see one finger. Now open your left eye and close
- [Would we survive a zombie apocalypse?](https://aschoonerofscience.com/science-in-the-movies/would-we-survive-a-zombie-apocalypse/) - I have blogged about zombies before on this blog (real zombies and infection modeling), and generally I am pretty concerned about the impending zombie apocalypse. But today I stumbled upon the reasons why we WOULD SURVIVE such an event, and of course I had to share the good news with you. 'Specially if you're one
- [Biodiversity weekend at Questacon](https://aschoonerofscience.com/science-communication/biodiversity-weekend-at-questacon/) - This here is Charles Darwin studying some stick insects. This vision greeted me in the entrance hall of Questacon, Australia's national science and technology center. The insects were crawling all over this guy's face. He's one of the very talented Excited Particles who are, as their name suggests, particularly excited about science. Sometimes fire. But
- [How moustaches grow](https://aschoonerofscience.com/just-for-fun/how-moustaches-grow/) - Happy World Beard Day. Yes we have one, and yes it's today (4th September, add it to your diaries and tattoo it to yer chest.) In honour of this most wonderful of holidays, I present to you the following viewing pleasure. Okay, I admit it's not the noble beard, it's his little brother moose-tarsh. Do
- [Margay cat of Brasil mimics primates to lure prey](https://aschoonerofscience.com/science-communication/margay-cat-of-brasil-mimics-primates-to-lure-prey/) - At some point in this post I'm going to be tempted to say "copy cat," so I'm just going to say it now. Copy Cat. There, it's out of my system, now let's move on. On fieldwork in Brasil (so jealous right now) a group of researchers saw a large cat called a margay making
- [Leviathan, the ancient marine predator discovered](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/leviathan-the-ancient-marine-predator-discovered/) - Deep in a desert in Peru palaeontologists were searching for a skull. Some years ago, teeth thought to belong to a new species of marine animal had been found, but they needed a head to identify it. Hunting in the richest area for ancient sea remains, luck eluded them until the very last day of
- [Talk like a pirate day coming soon! Prepare yerself.](https://aschoonerofscience.com/jibber-jabber/talk-like-a-pirate-day-coming-soon-prepare-yerself/) - Ahoy there! Just a quick reminder that the most important day in the year is coming up - Talk like a Pirate Day! It's on September 19, which this year is a Sunday. 'Tis an excellent day for some serious pirate frivolity, particularly in a drinking-in-the-backyard setting. Start planning yer party now!
- [Did the CIA spike a bakery in France with hallucinogens?](https://aschoonerofscience.com/poisons/did-the-cia-spike-a-bakery-in-france-with-hallucinogens/) - On August 15, 1951 a small town in southern France called Pont-Saint-Esprit briefly entered the twilight zone. Hundreds of people reported acute psychotic episodes and physical symptoms such as nausea. They experienced traumatic hallucinations, and 50 of those affected were put in asylums. Five died. The event was later traced back to pain maudit -
- [Apothecary bottles found in a collectibles shop](https://aschoonerofscience.com/drugs/apothecary-bottles-found-in-a-collectibles-shop/) - About a week ago I was in Gulgong, a small town in New South Wales near the wine region of Mudgee. The main road was spelled Mayne Road, and was brown stone rather than tarmac. Along the footpaths were old stone troughs for watering horses. Key landmarks included the Ten Dollar Motel and the Gulgong
- [National Science Week](https://aschoonerofscience.com/jibber-jabber/national-science-week-2/) - Just a quick one to say that National Science Week has officially started. If you're in Australia, there's tons of awesome science shows and stuff to do this week. Post a comment if you know of something particularly incredible that's happening. I'm in Parkes, NSW (home of the Dish) at the moment, so I'm missing
- [Pea found growing in lung](https://aschoonerofscience.com/the-realm-of-bizzare/pea-found-growing-in-lung/) - Well it don't happen every day. The BBC reported last week that a Massachusetts man was rushed to hospital with a collapsed lung. X-rays revealed that a 1.25 centimeter pea plant had sprouted inside his lung. He'd been battling emphysema for months, perhaps the extra moisture helped germination. He's now recovering at home. When I
- [Adopt a microbe from the deep sea](https://aschoonerofscience.com/just-for-fun/adopt-a-microbe-from-the-deep-sea/) - Would you like to adopt a microbe from the deep sea? Sounded like fun to me, so I have adopted Mariprofundus ferrooxydans, a fancy pants microbe that produces ribbons of rust. That's him in the picture, ain't he cute. He'll grow up to be a fearsome microbe one day, methinks I'll call him redbeard. If
- [Solar powered laptop bags and handbags](https://aschoonerofscience.com/science-at-home/solar-powered-laptop-bags-and-handbags/) - Winter sun is something worth enjoying. Spreading out lizardlike and soaking up UV rays to make Vitamin D is an excellent endeavour. I often take my laptop out with me and blog in the sunlight. Today as I was doing just that, my laptop started complaining about low charge. It made me wonder if you
- [Science of Inception - sedatives, dissociatives and dreaming](https://aschoonerofscience.com/drugs/science-of-inception-sedatives-dissociatives-and-dreaming/) - Inception is a movie which grabs you by the throat and won't let you go. Having seen it, I can't stop thinking about it and I just have to write something down. For those who haven't seen it, I will keep this vague enough to avoid spoilers. Dreaming is, well, weird. We don't really know
- [Big Blog Theory announced - Second place in best Australian blogger!](https://aschoonerofscience.com/jibber-jabber/big-blog-theory-announced-second-place-in-best-australian-blogger/) - A somewhat belated announcement - A Schooner of Science was awarded second place in The Big Blog Theory, sharing the runner up position with Mr Science Show. Huzzah! Congratulations to the winner, Bec from Save Your Breath for Running Ponies. The blog has a really interesting writing style, a bit like a novel with characters
- [Globs of jellyfish equals stings aplenty!](https://aschoonerofscience.com/the-realm-of-bizzare/globs-of-jellyfish-equals-stings-aplenty/) - With tentacles up to 30 feet long and measuring three feet across the bell, this is a Lions Man Jellyfish. The tentacles are full of nematocysts, small cells that automatically sting when they come in contact with something. Last Wednesday, pieces of one of these jellyfish washed up on a beach in New Hampshire and
- [New blog features animated MRI's of fruit](https://aschoonerofscience.com/science-art/new-blog-features-animated-mris-of-fruit/) - I have stumbled across Inside Insides, a blog of fruit and vegetables as seen through an MRI machine. Each fruit or vege has an animation, so you can see inside it from one end to another. Pictured is a screen shot of the latest entry - celery. Me favourites be the broccoli which looks like
- [Happy Pi Day!](https://aschoonerofscience.com/science-at-home/happy-pi-approximation-day/) - Yarr, it be one of the finest days on the calendar - Pi Day! Officially recognised by the eating of pie! Pictured is my apple and berry pie with a crumble topping and strawberry garnish. Not too shabby for a pirate! We can celebrate Pi Day on the 22nd of July because 22 divided by
- [Ivy vs UV, could plant nanoparticles be the new sunscreen?](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/ivy-vs-uv-could-plant-nanoparticles-be-the-new-sunscreen/) - Research published in June shows that nanoparticles from the English Ivy might make superior sunscreen to current brands, offering high broad spectrum protection and lasting for longer than current creams. The trend towards organics has influenced industries like food, coffee and shampoo as well as pretty much everything you can conceivably imagine. Over the past
- [The Japanese bullet train, designed by kingfishers](https://aschoonerofscience.com/how-things-work/the-japanese-bullet-train-designed-by-kingfishers/) - It's a beautiful example of biomimicry, nature informing technology. The shinkansen bullet trains of Japan are airplanes on rails, traveling at over 300 km per hour in comfort and style. Traveling at this speed, tunnels present a problem. When the train enters the tunnel it compresses a cushion of air ahead of it. The compressed
- [Why moths circle lamps, and darkness is our friend](https://aschoonerofscience.com/how-things-work/why-moths-circle-lamps-and-darkness-is-our-friend/) - I wear my sunglasses at night. It's for the light pollution. New Scientist today sent out a plea to bring back the night for wildlife's sake, particularly birds, bats and turtles. Moths are also at risk to death by light. In Australia, the Bogong moths cause October plagues around Sydney and Canberra. They swarm houses,
- [Rhododendron Poison - Truth behind the science of Sherlock Holmes](https://aschoonerofscience.com/poisons/rhododendron-poison-truth-behind-the-science-of-sherlock-holmes/) - I saw Sherlock Holmes last night with SexyMan, the cinema was packed and we sat in the second row from the front. I watched the movie like a fan watches a tennis match, but surprisingly it was still good! It might have helped that any great expectations had been dashed by a friend on facebook,
- [World's sweetest antibiotic? The five ways honey kills bacteria. ](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/worlds-sweetest-antibiotic-the-five-ways-honey-kills-bacteria/) - You're at the doctors with a suspected infection, but instead of offering penicillin or erythromycin, they prescribe honey. Would you switch toast toppings? Take a honey pill? How about letting the doctor smear medical grade honey over the infected area? People have been using honey (not mad honey) as medicine since ancient times, but until
- [The Big Blog Theory announces finalists ](https://aschoonerofscience.com/science-communication/the-big-blog-theory-announces-finalists/) - I'm pleased to announce A Schooner of Science has been named one of ten finalists for The Big Blog Theory. As well as being named Australia's best science blog, the winner will attend and blog about National Science Week events across Australia. Now it's up to you. Three reasons to vote for A Schooner of
- [Solar powered plane flies through the night](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/solar-powered-plane-flies-through-the-night/) - Up in the sky, it's a bird, it's a plane... well yes it's a plane. A solar powered plane. Last week Solar Impulse flew their prototype plane through the night for the first time. The trip lasted over 26 hours, gathering and storing energy during the day. With 12% efficiency and rationing energy to last
- [Frilled dinosaur Mojoceratops is groovy baby, yeah](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/frilled-dinosaur-mojoceratops-is-groovy-baby-yeah/) - Mojo: The libido. The life force. The essence. The right stuff. What the French call a certain... I don't know what. Mojoceratops was discovered when Nicholas Longrich from Yale University was looking at existing fossils from American Museum of Natural History in New York. They had been classified as another species, Chasmosaurus, but Nicholas believed
- [New jelly fish, jellyfish!](https://aschoonerofscience.com/just-for-fun/new-jelly-fish-jellyfish/) - A little bird (twitter) told me about some sweet new deep sea creatures, including jellyfish. You can see stunning pictures of them here on weird and wonderful Wired. When @lisushi tweeted the link, a song flooded through my head. This one goes out to everyone who has trouble deciding what to have for lunch. So
- [The Eastern Hognose Snake, one of Nature's great actors](https://aschoonerofscience.com/the-realm-of-bizzare/the-eastern-hognose-snake-one-of-natures-great-actors/) - The Eastern Hognose Snake is mostly harmless. Though it has large fangs and is mildly venomous, it mainly eats toads and is immune to the toxins secreted by their skin. It's large fangs can puncture toads if they try swell up with air to defend themselves. Why it chooses to eat toads over other, more
- [Preserved in amber, new beetle species discovered in Australia](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/preserved-in-amber-new-beetle-species-discovered-in-australia/) - A massive trove of precious amber, fossilised tree sap, was found last September. The pieces were found on a remote stretch of beach in Cape York, far north Queensland. The amber comes from an ancient rainforest that must have existed between Australia and New Guinea. Up until now there were almost no remains from that
- [Ten years since the Human Genome Project](https://aschoonerofscience.com/how-things-work/ten-years-since-the-human-genome-project/) - Ten years ago today scientists published the first draft of the Human Genome Project, which aimed to sequence the DNA shared by humans. This picture is a printout of the human genome in a series of books in London. The 3.4 billion units of DNA code are in more than a hundred volumes, each a
- [New polymer to help clear oil spill in Gulf of Mexico](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/new-polymer-to-help-clear-oil-spill-in-gulf-of-mexico/) - The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has been tragic. To help clean up the mess, a team from the University of Pittsburgh have designed a new way to removing oil from water. It's made of cotton dipped in a polymer which lets water through but repels oil. Here is a video of it
- [The strangeness and charm of subatomic particles](https://aschoonerofscience.com/jibber-jabber/the-strangeness-and-charm-of-subatomic-particles/) - In early high school I was told an atom was the smallest piece of matter in the universe. If you divided matter into pieces as small as they could be, the smallest piece would be one atom. Utter BS, according to later high school years. An atom is made up of protons, neutrons and electrons.
- [Vote for your favourite blog entry on three quarks daily](https://aschoonerofscience.com/jibber-jabber/vote-for-your-favourite-blog-entry-on-three-quarks-daily/) - Three Quarks Daily are having their second annual blog contest. A Schooner of Science's Chemistry of Kissing post has been nominated, and you can vote for it. Well, vote for your favourite post by anyone, no pressure. What's that? Your favourite was the Chemistry of Kissing anyway? Of course it was! Click through to read
- [Chemistry of Kissing](https://aschoonerofscience.com/how-things-work/chemistry-of-kissing/) - In the words of Henry Finck, "is not a kiss the very autograph of love?" Well, some kisses are better than others Frinck, and it can be hard to tell who's gonna be good and who's not. The one who seems perfect on paper can be absolutely shocking in the lips department, while the bad-for-you
- [Science scouts badges abound](https://aschoonerofscience.com/jibber-jabber/science-scouts-badges-abound/) - This badge is from Science Scouts, and it's the I may look like a scientist but I'm actually also a pirate badge. Personally I think everybody should have a scouts-inspired badge of some description. Getting badges is something adults don't experience enough. Let's bring back the tradition people! If you're into science, pick the one
- [How to stop coughing with medicine or chocolate](https://aschoonerofscience.com/drugs/how-to-stop-coughing-with-medicine-or-chocolate/) - I have been sadly struck down with a cold. So it was with weary steps I took myself to the pharmacy to obtain suitable drugs, and plenty of them. I got capsules which contain paracetamol (painkiller,) phenylephrine (ineffective speed-like drug that used to be pseudoephedrine and now doesn't really work) and dextromethorphan (cough suppressant.) Well
- [What is the synthetic cell?](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/what-is-the-synthetic-cell/) - Two days ago scientists at J. Craig Venter announced the creation of the first self-replicating synthetic cell, a bacteria with DNA made in a lab. How did they do it, and what does it mean for us in the future? First up, the scientists didn't make life out of nothing, and they didn't make a
- [Hallucinogenic drugs, animal studies and explosm](https://aschoonerofscience.com/just-for-fun/hallucinogenic-drugs-animal-studies-and-explosm/) - So I have had a really busy week in the lovely sunshine coast, and haven't had a chance to track down the quality science content you know and love. Instead, I have comics of drugs. WAIT!!! THIS IS SCIENCE! Because sometimes scientists give hallucinogenic drugs to animals to see what happens to them, and to
- [Mice make morphine, humans might too](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/mice-make-morphine-humans-might-too/) - A recent study has found that mice are able to turn something normally found in mice brains into morphine. Morphine is a potent painkiller harvested from opium poppies. We can make it synthetically in the lab, but it's cheaper to let plants do the hard work. If you haven't taken morphine, you may have taken
- [Some (bacteria) like it hot](https://aschoonerofscience.com/how-things-work/some-bacteria-like-it-hot/) - New video up! I started this video back in January and 95% finished it before I moved to Canberra and bought a laptop. I haven't had a chance to complete it and upload it... until now. The montage part is my favourite.
- [Laser Cut Cake, Delicious Technology](https://aschoonerofscience.com/just-for-fun/laser-cut-cake-delicious-technology/) - This cake was cut using a laser, as seen on Instructables. First a cake was baked (yum), and a design mapped out using a program called CAD. We used CAD in high school, but never to make cake. I believe that is what's wrong with the education system. CAD is a tricky (well, I found
- [Miracle fruit makes life a little sweeter](https://aschoonerofscience.com/just-for-fun/miracle-fruit-makes-life-a-little-sweeter/) - A mouthful changes your perception of taste, making everything you eat for an hour afterward taste sweet. Lemons taste like oranges, oranges taste delightful, strawberries are to die for. Sounds like something illicit, a taste trip. It was about a year ago I first heard of miracle fruit. It's a berry from West Africa. There's
- [Female babies respond to pregnancy stress, male babies don't](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/female-babies-respond-to-pregnancy-stress-male-babies-dont/) - Image by bettina n Being stressed is not good for a pregnant mother, but how the baby reacts to the stress depends partly on its gender. Research led by Vicki Clifton from the University of Adelaide is finding out how stress changes the way babies develop. When you're pregnant, I imagine anything can stress you
- [Koalas catch Chlamydia](https://aschoonerofscience.com/sex-and-reproduction/koalas-catch-chlamydia/) - Sitting up in their gumtrees, watching the world with little eyes set above the kind of nose you'd expect to find in a craft store. The koala's fuzzy gray head is adorned with furry white ears, and the end result is a huge bundle of cute that makes you want to squeal. Picture by Erik
- [Reigniting Fire](https://aschoonerofscience.com/just-for-fun/reigniting-fire/) - This video shows why fires can be so hard to put out, because the darn things reignite themselves. The visuals are just stunning. Hat tip to GrrlScientist at Living the Scientific Life. I totally want to try this at home
- [The needle free vaccine, how Nanopatch works](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/the-needle-free-vaccine-how-nanopatch-works/) - Researchers from Queensland University have discovered a new way to administer vaccines, a Nanopatch. Smaller than a postage stamp, the patch puts the vaccine through your skin. No need for an injection. So how does it work? The Nanopatch is full of micro-nanoprojections containing antigen - part of the bacteria or virus you are immunising
- [New images of the sun from NASA's SDO](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/new-images-of-the-sun-from-nasas-sdo/) - This is one of the first images sent to Earth from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) last week. The SDO satellite collects data and images of the sun, producing enough material to fill a CD every 36 seconds. Most satellites share ground stations, but because of the monster processing power needed to store all this
- [A Schooner of Science turns one](https://aschoonerofscience.com/jibber-jabber/a-schooner-of-science-turns-one/) - Ahoy! Today be an auspicious occasion. 'Tis the first birthday of me blog! A year ago today the first post hit the internet. Since then, A Schooner of Science has grown. With 141 posts, 100 visitors daily and a mere 4 comments away from the 300 mark, the blog is going strong and there's no
- [Female fiddler crabs have sex with the neighbours](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/female-fiddler-crabs-have-sex-with-the-neighbours/) - Fiddler crabs may be little, but they have one big appendage, the CLAW! A weapon if ever there was one. Like a lance or an over-sized boxing glove, something about it just screams MAN. So it fits that male fiddlers are the gender so endowed. Females have two little feeding claws. No giant claw. No
- [Solid Earth Tides](https://aschoonerofscience.com/how-things-work/solid-earth-tides/) - Oceans aren't the only thing that respond to the moon. The land has tides as well. My videos are all found on my YouTube Channel. If you love me or fear me, click through and RANK ME OR WALK THE PLANK! It's unbelievable that the ground beneath you actually moves up twice a day, just
- [Solid Earth Tides](https://aschoonerofscience.com/how-things-work/solid-earth-tides/) - Oceans aren't the only thing that respond to the moon. The land has tides as well. My videos are all found on my YouTube Channel. If you love me or fear me, click through and RANK ME OR WALK THE PLANK! It's unbelievable that the ground beneath you actually moves up twice a day, just
- [Syphilis detecting handshake used by sailors](https://aschoonerofscience.com/uncategorized/syphilis-detecting-handshake-used-by-sailors/) - Back in the days before antibiotics, syphilis was a dreadful problem encountered on occasion by hapless sailors on shore leave bewitched by young maidens. Fortunately they could use their super-secret special handshake to detect syphilis. A demonstration is below, feel free to use it when dating. Amazing! And you can sneak it in when dancing
- [Recently discovered - new atom and new giant monitor lizard](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/recently-discovered-new-atom-and-new-giant-monitor-lizard/) - Firstly (hat tip to Disease of the Week), scientists have discovered a new element. Ununseptium, with the atomic number of 117, it is the second heaviest element every discovered. It's not naturally occurring so you're unlikely to bump into it on the street. Uranium is the largest natural element at a mere 92, not that
- [Sexy smoky eyes prevented infections in Ancient Egypt](https://aschoonerofscience.com/poisons/sexy-smoky-eyes-prevented-infections-in-ancient-egypt/) - Today I made a new video about how Kohl eye makeup may have prevented eye infections in Ancient Egypt. Ancient Egyptian Eyes Saved Lives from Captain Skellett on Vimeo. The video was sparked by a recent letter published in Analytical Chemistry which you can read here (at least, see the abstract. You have to pay
- [Cola lowers sperm count, study doesn't show](https://aschoonerofscience.com/science-at-home/cola-lowers-sperm-count-study-doesnt-show/) - The headline "Cola lowers sperm count, study shows" popped up on ninemsn recently. Usually I don't pay much mind to ninemsn, but they had a grizzly story about a Russians who drowned a girl, then served her as meat with a side of potatoes to her friend. They plead guilty and said they had done
- [The Planet Venus](https://aschoonerofscience.com/science-at-home/the-planet-venus/) - Apologies for the slackness of my posts, I was in Adelaide for the Easter weekend and all my time was spent with family and SexyMan. But now I'm back. Yay. Last week I wrote about air pressure in space, and to carry on the spaceman spiff theme I thought I'd write about my favourite planet,
- [What happens to you in space?](https://aschoonerofscience.com/just-for-fun/what-happens-to-you-in-space/) - I have a confession to make. I want to be an astronaut. When I was a kid, I thought it would be SO COOL to be one of the most special people in your field that you're chosen to represent the world/country and go to the final frontier. "Starman" by Bowie is still one of
- [Of Science, Tattoos and Pirates](https://aschoonerofscience.com/jibber-jabber/of-science-tattoos-and-pirates/) - This is a picture of Corey with a tattoo of fulvic acid, which he studied in grad school. He said he got it "as an homage to the pain of my graduate work." It's just one of many wonderful science tattoos compiled by The Loom. The collection is rather staggering. Tattoos seem a piratey sort
- [New dinosaur species discovered, Linheraptor exquisitus](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/new-dinosaur-species-discovered-linheraptor-exquisitus/) - Meet Linheraptor exquisitus, a species related to the infamous Velociraptor. It was discovered in the Gobi Desert, Inner Mongolia. The paper was published in Zootaxa a couple of days ago. Two PhD students named Michael Pittman and Jonah Choinier made the discovery. They were doing a field project at the time. Finding a new species
- [Win a book with your maths magic](https://aschoonerofscience.com/just-for-fun/win-a-book-with-your-maths-magic/) - A Diary of Numbers are offering a free book to anyone who can estimate the number of times Mario has died in the many games he's starred in. The book is called How Many Licks? How to Estimate Just About Anything. I imagine the book is a bit like the blog. It uses estimation techniques
- [The Oatmeal does Six Phases of a Tapeworm](https://aschoonerofscience.com/just-for-fun/the-oatmeal-does-six-phases-of-a-tapeworm/) - This topic be near to me heart. Before ye start to think that I have been feasting on uncooked meat and so forth, wait! It's not at all like that. I'm just designing an interactive exhibition about parasites. We want to make this giant tapeworm that kids can crawl inside. And possibly a giant animatronic
- [Meet half-hen half-rooster all-awesome chicken](https://aschoonerofscience.com/the-realm-of-bizzare/meet-half-hen-half-rooster-all-awesome-chicken/) - While we're on the topic of gender bending animals, this chicken is half-hen and half-rooster. Epic. Ed Yong wrote about it a couple of days ago, but apparently it was a very complex paper and I didn't get his explanation. So without further ado, have some speculation from yours truly! In humans, most of your
- [Common weedkiller causes sex change in frogs](https://aschoonerofscience.com/uncategorized/common-weedkiller-causes-sex-change-in-frogs/) - That picture is two genetically male frogs doing the do. One of them has had a sex change, and is now a laydee frog with ovaries! Why has this happened? It's been blamed on atrazine. The paper was published in the March early edition of PNAS. It adds further evidence against the weedkiller's safety in
- [Fringe, Festival and Science in South Australia](https://aschoonerofscience.com/just-for-fun/fringe-festival-and-science-in-south-australia/) - For all me hometown South Australian readers out there, this be for you. It's the best time of year to be in the southern state because the Fringe and the Adelaide Festival are both on at the same time and there is SO MUCH AWESOME about that, really, you're spoilt for choice. Of course for
- [Equation tells you when to pop the question](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/equation-tells-you-when-to-pop-the-question/) - Okay, so this is just cool. Statisticians from the University of New South Wales have made an equation that tells you the optimum age to propose. It isn't the first time people have made love equations... The difference is this one actually comes up with some answers and uses numbers. In fact it's pretty complicated.
- [The government has our DNA](https://aschoonerofscience.com/uncategorized/the-government-has-our-dna/) - DNA from newborn babies is being routinely screened for genetic testing, and in some cases the sample is kept indefinitely. Last December a Dublin hospital was found keeping a DNA database in secret and is now under investigation. In the USA and Australia they don't need to do it in secret, they have government support.
- [Onions make even the toughest pirate cry](https://aschoonerofscience.com/how-things-work/onions-make-even-the-toughest-pirate-cry/) - Life in Canberra is full of ch-ch-changes. I'm living with a new shipmate who I hardly know, and we are still in the awkward social stage of being cautiously polite. Both of us are being abnormally clean, and amidst many mugs of grog we promise not to murder each other in their sleep. In a
- [Meet telomerase, the enzyme that won a Nobel Prize](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/meet-telomerase-the-enzyme-that-won-a-nobel-prize/) - As a pirate I am rarely afforded the luxury of meeting the rich and famous, but today I met Elizabeth Blackburn. She was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, making her the first first FEMALE Australian born scientist to win a Nobel Prize. (I also met the PM and Senator Kim Carr,
- [When fish started to breathe air](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/when-fish-started-to-breathe-air/) - The Devonian Period was a golden age for life in the ocean, in fact it's called the Age of Fishes. First the jawless fish evolved but soon swimming around in a fishy way seemed pretty sweet and everyone was doing it. Fish with jaws emerged and were hardcore with the eating of other fish, then
- [Australian Science Communicators Conference Day One](https://aschoonerofscience.com/science-communication/australian-science-communicators-conference-day-one/) - Just got home after a massive day at #asc2010. Though I'm exhausted I'm feeling too excited to sleep, so instead I'll give you my blow by blow account of the conference. Welcome session The day opened with a welcome from an Aboriginal elder who was not at all interested in science (actually, she said she
- [Weighing anchor and moving interstate](https://aschoonerofscience.com/jibber-jabber/weighing-anchor-and-moving-interstate/) - Even though exciting things are happening in science, such as slime moulds being used to design railway systems, I have been otherwise occupied. What has harnessed most of my attention of late is my imminent move interstate. Pirates have a certain inclination to horde treasure, and as such my cupboards are filled with nifty trinkets
- [DNA dating websites - the genetics of love](https://aschoonerofscience.com/just-for-fun/dna-dating-websites-the-genetics-of-love/) - A new brand of "scientific" dating has sprouted up. It draws on an idea wrote about in the Chemistry of Kissing - basically, you have more snap, crackle and pop with someone who has an immune system very different to your own. Through your genes combined, the resulting offspring will have a stronger, more diverse
- [St Elmo's Fire](https://aschoonerofscience.com/how-things-work/st-elmos-fire/) - Some sailors regard it with fear and amazement, others see it as an omen of things to come, but when I see St Elmo's Fire burning on the masts above I am struck with curiousity for this most bizarre natural phenomenon. St Elmo's Fire appears as a blueish glow gracing the tips of masts and
- [Why you can't run your car on water](https://aschoonerofscience.com/how-things-work/why-you-cant-run-your-car-on-water/) - For those of you who can't sail to work like a pirate, or live too far away to walk or cycle, then chances are you use a car or motorbike to get around. You also probably feel guilty sometimes for the DAMAGE you're doing to the environment, emitting toxic gasses and contributing to global warming
- [My sparkly new website design](https://aschoonerofscience.com/jibber-jabber/my-sparkly-new-website-design/) - Ahoy! I'm pleased to announce the new layout and design of me blog. For all you people who RSS me, click through and check it out. It's very sexy, if I do say so myself... I must confess a secret desire to marry the Twitter icon to the right and have feathery babies with it.
- [Akhenaten and the cult of the sun (with added science)](https://aschoonerofscience.com/just-for-fun/akhenaten-and-the-cult-of-the-sun-with-added-science/) - 'Tis 40 degrees celsius today, and the sun beats down heavily on deck. Wood has become warm to the touch, the sails are unbearably white, and when the bow dips and sprays the sweating crew with sea foam, you can hear a collective sigh of relief. Such scenery brings to mind a myth I loved
- [My Opinion on the Science behind Avatar](https://aschoonerofscience.com/science-in-the-movies/my-opinion-on-the-science-behind-avatar-2/) - Have you seen it yet? It's the best movie of the decade, and it just became the fastest movie to make $1bn in ticket sales. This post contains spoilers, so if you're lagging behind the majority then run along now, come back later. I've held back from this post to give people a chance to
- [Absinthe drinking makes Homer something something](https://aschoonerofscience.com/poisons/absinthe-drinking-makes-homer-something-something/) - When I was but a lass, freshly ID'd and able to finally hit the local tavern, there was a rumour around that Absinthe was THE drink if you wanted to get drunk fast, and as a bonus, if you could get the proper stuff, it causes hallucinations. OMG terribly exciting. I could feel jolts of
- [Big week for science blogs - Science Online and Open Lab](https://aschoonerofscience.com/science-communication/big-week-for-science-blogs-science-online-and-open-lab/) - I get confused about the time and date in the US, being a resident of Kangarooland myself. Nonetheless, I have it on good Twitteriffic authority that Science Online 2010 has opened! It is a mysterious weekend where science bloggers unite and discuss... well... science blogging. Mostly. Yeah, I wish I was there, it would be
- [HeLa, the first immortal human cells and a tale of immorality](https://aschoonerofscience.com/unethics/hela-the-first-immortal-human-cells-and-a-tale-of-immorality/) - When we work with cell lines in the lab, we often work with HeLa cells. They can live in a vial of nutrients, and from a small sample you can grow a large quantity to use in cancer research, in vitro fertilisation research, stem cell research, virus research, pretty much any kind of human biology
- [Captain Skellett takes the Stage](https://aschoonerofscience.com/science-communication/captain-skellett-takes-the-stage/) - Exciting news! I've been invited to talk about science blogging at the RiAus on the 18th of Jan for the next Australian Science Communicators meeting. If you'd like to come and meet me (and you live in South Australia) you can register here. It comes at a great time, with Science Online 2010 starting very
- [Spoons Will Kill You](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/spoons-will-kill-you/) - The deadly spoon, it makes a knife look tame by comparison. Indeed, only a meat cleaver attached to a hand beater is more dangerous. Being a lover of spoons (not literally thank you very much. I'm just fond of them, okay? Nothing wrong with that) I am skeptical of this research which suggests that spoon
- [Catching cancer part one - HPV infection versus the face of Tasmanian Devils](https://aschoonerofscience.com/how-things-work/catching-cancer-part-one-hpv-infection-versus-the-face-of-tasmanian-devils/) - This post and the next have been bubbling in the pipeline for some months now, and were finally prodded to the open by this post by Carl Zimmer about the facial tumour disease wiping out Tasmanian Devils. So what's the deal with the face-cancer first up? (Sidenote: You'd be surprised how many people have found
- [Catching cancer part two - HPV infection versus the face of Tasmanian Devils](https://aschoonerofscience.com/how-things-work/catching-cancer-part-two-hpv-infection-versus-the-face-of-tasmanian-devils/) - Following on from yesterday's post about the Tasmanian Devils, this is all about HPV - a highly infectious virus that can cause cancer (well, sort of. Read on.) The Human Papillomavirus is crazy infectious - around three out of four women will have it at some time in their lives. That's a LOT of people
- [Happy New Years to the Crew](https://aschoonerofscience.com/jibber-jabber/happy-new-years-to-the-crew/) - Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net I've been thinking about New Years Resolutions a lot recently. For 2009 I stopped drinking Coke, giving up a 15 year addiction to the black fizz. What to do for 2010? Stop pillaging? Stop hijacking ships? Stop using the plank as a teaching tool? No, it has to be something
- [Giant Sunflowers and Massive Pumpkins](https://aschoonerofscience.com/jibber-jabber/giant-sunflowers-and-massive-pumpkins/) - The giant sunflower. It can get as big as 20 feet / 8 meters high, that's bigger than a giraffe! Varieties include Sunzilla and Mammoth. There's no science here, it's just awesome - heard about it yesterday playing a game called BS, here's a sample. Can a type of antelope can sleep underwater? Aye! Sitatunga
- [Frankenstein's Monster](https://aschoonerofscience.com/just-for-fun/frankensteins-monster/) - It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open . . . A body composed of executed murderers, brought to life by the power of
- [Art in a plate of agar - designs made with bacteria](https://aschoonerofscience.com/science-art/art-in-a-plate-of-agar-designs-made-with-bacteria/) - Bacteria and fungi are not generally thought of as attractive pieces of art, indeed I know the times I have lapsed in used-by-date judgment I have beheld them with disgust. Disgust, followed by destruction - straight to the bin or a boiling hot death. Still, they have a certain something... especially when dressed up like
- [Christmas bits to get you in the spirit](https://aschoonerofscience.com/jibber-jabber/christmas-bits-to-get-you-in-the-spirit/) - Christmas is a rough time of year. The shopping, the cooking, the stress of it all is a giant pain in the ass. In fact, that one day pretty much ruins December for you, because you spend the entire month planning, worrying, and having the same conversation "I can't believe Christmas is so soon!" "I
- ["It tastes like burning!" How (and why) chili brings the heat](https://aschoonerofscience.com/poisons/it-tastes-like-burning-how-and-why-chilli-brings-the-heat/) - Last night I made spicy Dhall for dinner, because lentils and peas may be high in protein, but they're also really lame. I used a recipe from an old English cookbook from the 70's with all pounds and ounces. Couldn't be bothered converting stuff, so I made it up along the way. Hell, that's the
- [Oven baked pizza that gets you baked!](https://aschoonerofscience.com/just-for-fun/oven-baked-pizza-that-gets-you-baked/) - You'd expect it in Amsterdam, but now the trend has reached America. Pizza, lasagna, cheesecake with a good helping of weed. It's not illegal if it's medical! It's a medical marijuana dispensary slash eatery called Ganja Gourmet, and it just opened in Denver. You need a card from a doctor to buy the food, as
- [Not So Humble Science Cookies](https://aschoonerofscience.com/science-at-home/not-so-humble-science-cookies/) - Science and dessert... oh yeah. The two best things in the world, barring only the horizon blue and bare and far from shore. Not So Humble Pie is making incredible science inspired cookie and cupcake art, these pictures look absolutely unequivocally delicious and come with recipes! My mouth is watering just thinking about them. Brains...
- [A baby lacking a brain](https://aschoonerofscience.com/sex-and-reproduction/a-baby-lacking-a-brain/) - I've been struggling with writing this. After doing a little research into it I found some pictures that just... when I get concerned about something I tend to obsessively check facebook and twitter, like I'm looking for someone to connect to and I'm too freaked to reach out. I came across a beautifully written post
- [Nanoart - scientific art on the smallest scale](https://aschoonerofscience.com/science-art/nanoart-scientific-art-on-the-smallest-scale/) - These raunchy bunnies make up in style what they lack in size - each one is about a quarter of a millimeter in size, and the bow is the width of a human hair. Made by nanobliss which specialises in carbon nanotubes and silicon, and holds various exhibitions (they also have a nanobama). Find out
- [Animal to Human Transplantation](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/animal-to-human-transplantation/) - As I gazed out over the undulating ocean I could feel a twinge of phantom pain in my lost leg, it always twinges so when the beast is near. Perhaps some part of it's spirit was not cleaved so sharply from my body, and it can sense its physical counterpart is close and yearns to
- [Notes on the virus, pirate of the cell](https://aschoonerofscience.com/how-things-work/notes-on-the-virus-pirate-of-the-cell/) - Viruses are on the cusp of life and non-life. On one hand they have genetic material and use it to make more of themselves and evolve, on the other hand they don't do anything outside of a host cell, they don't breathe, grow, or move. If we count them as living, they are the most
- [The Particle Zoo - Gift Idea for a Physicist](https://aschoonerofscience.com/just-for-fun/the-particle-zoo-gift-idea-for-a-physicist/) - I came across this cool gift for a physicist, or anyone, because they are totally geeky and super cute. Squee! The Particle Zoo have soft quarks, leptons, nucleons, and theoreticals like the Higgs Boson and the Tachyon (which in the X-Files made time-travel possible!). PLUS they have the same range in antiparticles, which are kept
- [On a Boat!](https://aschoonerofscience.com/jibber-jabber/on-a-boat/) - Tonight I'm going to a Christmas function. On a boat.
- [Cheap date, grim reaper and swiss cheese - the world's coolest gene names](https://aschoonerofscience.com/jibber-jabber/cheap-date-grim-reaper-and-swiss-cheese-the-worlds-coolest-gene-names/) - I studied biochemistry at University, and I remember spending hours copying pathways, reading and rereading textbooks, then summarising, checking, drawing, testing, making mnemonics, in short EVERYTHING I could do to help me memorise things. There is a lot to remember in biochemistry, and a lot of words which don't mean much that have to go
- [Vegetarianism FTW](https://aschoonerofscience.com/jibber-jabber/vegetarianism-ftw/) - Quick post - I'm going vego (see, it's endorsed by Mac, why else would they call them Apples?). It's a spur of the moment decision, that's how I like 'em. Polly will be proud, and pleased he's no longer on the menu. I'm just glad I no longer have to eat the salted meat rations
- [Baby teeth, where your cheesy grin comes from](https://aschoonerofscience.com/science-at-home/baby-teeth-where-your-cheesy-grin-comes-from/) - Look into the screen and smile. Ever wondered where those teeth o' yours came from? Whence did they sprout, sharp, strong and shiny from yon glistening gums? And why did ye have baby teeth which grew and survived a good ten years before being mercilessly replaced? I am fortunate to still have all my teeth,
- [A recipe for eggnog, and notes on the spice-drug nutmeg](https://aschoonerofscience.com/science-at-home/a-recipe-for-eggnog-and-notes-on-the-spice-drug-nutmeg/) - Arr, it be that time of the year when all the good cabin boys hang their stockings off the mainsail and cook gets busy making eggnog. My harbour is in Australia, so eggnog is not a favourite of mine. The rich, milkiness of the drink is ill-suited for the hot Yuletides we experience, and a
- [Shout out to the physicisits in da house](https://aschoonerofscience.com/just-for-fun/shout-out-to-the-physicisits-in-da-house/) - Not for the first time I am posting a rap video. Rap is apparently the best genre of musical art for scientific communication, perhaps because it can handle an excess of long words. This one is about the Large Hadron Collider, and it is catchy-as! Sadly I am not physics-minded, so I'm still a bit
- [The origin of written words, how our love affair with letters began](https://aschoonerofscience.com/science-at-home/the-origin-of-written-words-how-our-love-affair-with-letters-began/) - I was reading a story to my niece a few months ago (we'll call her Cutie, 'cos she's cute, and she's not actually my niece, she's SexyMan's niece.) She's about two. While we were reading this story the cat came into the living room, and Cutie immediately pointed at the cat and said "Cat," then
- [Magnetic Movie](https://aschoonerofscience.com/just-for-fun/magnetic-movie/) - I've been sitting on this story for a while, and then I forgot about it. Oops! This movie is very VERY sexy! It won the Scientific Merit Award at the Imagine Science Film Festival for 2009, and the visuals are just stunning! Behold the awesome power of MAGNET! Magnetic Movie from Semiconductor on Vimeo.
- [When shark embryos get hungry an unborn sibling makes a tasty treat](https://aschoonerofscience.com/the-realm-of-bizzare/when-shark-embryos-get-hungry-an-unborn-sibling-makes-a-tasty-treat/) - Next time you run out of food in the fridge ask yourself this, would you eat a human? If you were in a plane crash in the middle of a desert, would you eat the person who sat next to you, or would you brave the supply of frozen muffins and green omelettes they serve
- [Mac for 3D Molecular Visualisation. Apple makes Drug Design Sexy](https://aschoonerofscience.com/drugs/mac-for-3d-molecular-visualisation-apple-makes-drug-design-sexy/) - Drug design seems a glamorous industry full of coloured liquids, crystal bottles and incredibly expensive machines, but the reality involves a lot of repetitive experimentation and number crunching. Taking a lot of data and making it something you can imagine and understand is a freaking hard thing to do! Mac has made it easier (oh
- [Mushroom Coral Eating Moon Jellyfish](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/mushroom-coral-eating-moon-jellyfish/) - OM NOM NOM! This picture was taken in March 2009, and shows a moon jellyfish (about 12 cm in diameter) being EATEN ALIVE by a coral called Fungia scruposa (about 20 cm in diameter). It's the first time a coral has been documented eating an adult jellyfish. Unlike most corals, which are composed of thousands
- [Bad Ass Images of Animals Dressed as Pirates](https://aschoonerofscience.com/just-for-fun/bad-ass-images-of-animals-dressed-as-pirates/) - I'm having a FREAK OUT day today. So much to do! Time's running out! BAH!!! To distract myself from life, I give you these pictures of pirate animals. As far as I'm concerned, Sexy Man should be devoting all his time to making awesome pictures like these (a bit of time updating my site to
- [Why I am Anti Antibacterials](https://aschoonerofscience.com/how-things-work/why-i-am-anti-antibacterials/) - Work just bought three lovely new bottles of antibacterial soap. Bummer. One of my very first posts was about how much antibacterial EVERYTHING there is nowadays, and how it will unleash a race of superbugs onto us all, causing the apocalypse. I've settled down a little now, because I went to a talk with a
- [Small Wonders: How Microbes Rule Our World](https://aschoonerofscience.com/science-communication/small-wonders-how-microbes-rule-our-world/) - Did you know that your currently carrying at least a kilo of bacteria around on (and in!) you at the moment? And that without these hitchhikers we'd get very sick, very quickly? The world is a very different place if you are a bacteria or virus, who can happily live in the most extreme environments
- [Science Saves Penises Everywhere!](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/science-saves-penises-everywhere/) - I wasn’t going to do it. Really, I started on Tuesday, and then I thought to myself – Captain. Don’t do it. ‘Tis very silly, and we’re trying to run a professional pirate ship of science here. But in the end… well… it’s Reproduction Wednesday and this shit is GOLD! A pirate worth her salt
- [Effects of Alcohol - Why You Shouldn't Drink on an Empty Stomach](https://aschoonerofscience.com/poisons/effects-of-alcohol-why-you-shouldnt-drink-on-an-empty-stomach/) - Everyone knows you're supposed to eat something “to line the stomach” before you hit the town, but why is that? Alcohol is pretty volatile, around 5% of what you drink is expelled through the lungs. It's why you can smell alcohol on someone's breath, and it's how breath testers work. Breathalysers just take advantage of
- [Microbes Close Up in Full Colour](https://aschoonerofscience.com/science-art/microbes-close-up-in-full-colour/) - The smallest, but most prolific life around us is usually invisible to us. Most of us don't stop to think about how cannon blastingly amazing it all is. These remarkable images are guaranteed to make you appreciate the smaller things in life. From the wonderful Jennifer Frazer at The Artful Amoeba, may I present: Pollen
- [How Viagra Works](https://aschoonerofscience.com/just-for-fun/how-viagra-works/) - Viagra, that little blue pill. How does it work? How was it discovered? What are the side effects? This video answers all your questions about the first ever oral treatment for erectile dysfunction, written, edited and starring yours truly. How Viagra Works from Captain Skellett on Vimeo. Erectile dysfunction can be embarrassing for pirates, but
- [Halloween 09](https://aschoonerofscience.com/jibber-jabber/halloween-09/) - Ahoy! What did you do last night, on Halloween? Me, I tricked out my house spooky-style and dressed as a mad scientist. I also wrote in some books about human experiments and covered them with fake blood a la Myst. It was a heaps good night, complete with spooky ghosts, witches, pirates and fairies, green,
- [Zombification](https://aschoonerofscience.com/poisons/zombification/) - Halloween is on the horizon. Today's post is on the science of Zombies. Because Zombies, apparently, exist. In Haiti. Haiti is located in the Caribbean, near Jamaica and Cuba. Ah... the Caribbean... Anyway, this story is not about cocktails served in coconuts with little umbrellas on the side. It's more about mind control. The guy
- [Making Slime](https://aschoonerofscience.com/uncategorized/making-slime/) - Arr, how many times have you sailed across the wide ocean seas brimming with bubbling sea life under the silent surface and wondered how AWESOME it would be if the sea was made of slime? Well wonder no more. Today we makes slime. Slime is a very useful substance, mostly for turning regular (read: boring)
- [Aphrodisiacs](https://aschoonerofscience.com/sex-and-reproduction/aphrodisiacs/) - A slight departure, one could even say a step backwards (wink) from the usual Reproduction Wednesday. Today is about love... well, sex... well, aphrodisiacs. Greek Myth Time! In the times before time really began, the great gods of old stalked heaven and earth and they were dark and shady characters. Uranus, the sky god, beheld
- [Dalek Pictures](https://aschoonerofscience.com/just-for-fun/dalek-pictures/) - As promised, here are pictures from last week (was it really only a week ago?) when I was a Dalek for the RiAus Family Fun Day. So good. Daleks running amok in Victoria Square Andrew Corson, the man behind it all And this pic isn't a Dalek, it's a robot called Tubby who strolled around
- [Claymation Biology!](https://aschoonerofscience.com/how-things-work/claymation-biology/) - Science and animation belong together (wink). Animation is awesome sauce on science noms - "it makes science fun!" And how good is claymation? LOVE IT! It takes so long though, I don't know how people have the patience. Check out this video by Creature Cast, a clay-tastic introduction on what germ cells are and where
- [Smelling the Moon](https://aschoonerofscience.com/the-realm-of-bizzare/smelling-the-moon/) - This has always stuck in my mind from a book I read - I think it was The Mists of Avalon (awesome book btw). In it, a pregnant woman swears she can smell moonbeams when she's pregnant, and they make her feel sick. So today I'm wondering, does pregnancy improve your nose? Can you smell
- [Science Tweets - Iceberg Art and a Vego Spider](https://aschoonerofscience.com/the-realm-of-bizzare/science-tweets-iceberg-art-and-a-vego-spider/) - Today's post is a big plate o' retweet, because when I checked me Twitter today I found many tasty morsels I knew I had to skewer. Dine well, me hearties. Iceberg Art, all-natural and un-freaking-believable. This image hasn't been photoshopped, it looked that good in real life. Algae, sediments, and a speedy melt/refreeze process can
- [The Beast](https://aschoonerofscience.com/jibber-jabber/the-beast/) - This is not the greatest post in the world. This is just a tribute. To The Beast. Yes, The Beast. I watched it as a young lass when it aired on TV, and now it is lost in the depths of VHS technology and lives only in my sadly dimming memory. Did ye ever see
- [The Launch of RiAus](https://aschoonerofscience.com/science-communication/the-launch-of-riaus/) - 'Tis late at night, the storm has passed, I am exhausted from my weekend and long to crawl into bed to read Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters. But no... it has been too long and I have been too slack on writing. Don't let me weasel my way out of this. I am GOING
- [What the Blog???](https://aschoonerofscience.com/jibber-jabber/what-the-blog/) - ARRRRRRRRRRRRGH!!! I just got back from Melbourne, and it seems I can't even take a five day holiday anymore! My blog, which I carefully wrote two posts set to be published while I was away, decided to partially delete itself. I lost the two posts I was planning to publish, and the AWESOME one about gender selection and the SRY gene, as well as my 100th comment in one fell swoop! Deleted! Gone! And I, a mere n00b at blogging, without so much as a word doc back up. I'm lucky I only lost three posts I suppose. I DON'T RUDDY FEEL LUCKY!!!
- [Pirate's Chai](https://aschoonerofscience.com/just-for-fun/pirates-chai/) - It's the new craze hitting the US! Pirate's Chai is a spicy version of the Chai Latte, made with green tea powder called Matcha, Ayurvedic Chai spice extracts and Muscavado cane sugar, it's super healthy and low in sugar. People are raving about it. I'm a massive fan of the Chai Latte, it tastes like
- [Female Sperm, Lesbians having Babies](https://aschoonerofscience.com/sex-and-reproduction/female-sperm-lesbians-having-babies/) - Ahoy there, welcome to another Reproduction Wednesday! Can you believe it's been a week since the last one? It feels like it has been MUCH longer because I have been VERY busy. My acting group presented our performance "Pub People" on Monday and it was wonderful, if I do say so myself. Plus ships don't
- ['Tis Better Not to Linger in the Pool... ](https://aschoonerofscience.com/sex-and-reproduction/tis-better-not-to-linger-in-the-pool/) - Well, this one has been doing the rounds lately, so I'm going to be topical for a change! I came across it about 10pm last night, but was too tired to type coherently. So, they say now that daily sex improve sperm quality! How interesting is that?! Apparently the longer the swimmers spend in the
- [Dandelions a Natural Source of Latex](https://aschoonerofscience.com/how-things-work/dandelions-a-natural-source-of-latex/) - Latex, where would we be without you? You make the gloves we scientists are so fond of donning, protecting our nail polish from the acetone we use to wash glasswear. You make balloons in all shapes, sizes and colours. You make condoms in the same fashion. Like duct tape your uses are innumerable, like attraction
- [Talk Like a Pirate Day 2009](https://aschoonerofscience.com/just-for-fun/talk-like-a-pirate-day-2009/) - ARR! *cough* me throat be sore from all the ARR's last night, and all the rum! I trust ye all participated in this most excellent of holidays? What did ye do? For my part, I went to a pub which was all in the spirit of the night, bar staff and patrons alike dressed as
- [Talk Like a Pirate Day Tomorrow!](https://aschoonerofscience.com/jibber-jabber/talk-like-a-pirate-day-tomorrow/) - A quick reminder that it's Talk Like a Pirate Day tomorrow. Talk like a pirate or walk the plank!
- [Too Many Chromosomes!](https://aschoonerofscience.com/how-things-work/too-many-chromosomes/) - Todays installment of Reproduction Wednesday is about having too many chromosomes. The scientific term for this is aneuploidy, and the pirate term for this is "thar be too many etchings on yer peg leg!" Peg leg being a euphemism, in this case, for genetic material. For the scientists among us - aneuploidy usually arises from
- [Glass Microbes, Science Goes Stylish](https://aschoonerofscience.com/jibber-jabber/glass-microbes-science-goes-stylish/) - These transparent glass sculptures were created to contemplate the global impact of each disease and to consider how the doctoring of scientific imagery affects our visualisation of phenomena. Viruses never looked so good... Smallpox, HIV, and an 'Unknown Future Mutation' SARS These glass sculptures are designed and created by Luke Jerram, and are on exhibition
- [Get your Pirate On - One Week to Go!](https://aschoonerofscience.com/just-for-fun/get-your-pirate-on-one-week-to-go/) - YARR! Talk like a pirate week be next Saturday, 19th of September. Here be a brief lesson in how to do it right from none other than the men that started it all. A note - 'tis TALK like a Pirate day, there be no need to dress as such if you ain't in the
- [Rap with Constant Volume, Pressure or Temperature](https://aschoonerofscience.com/just-for-fun/rap-with-constant-volume-pressure-or-temperature/) - Ah, the gas equation. I love it, I really do, I don't care if it's nerdy and not as piratey as admitting I like large hats and scuffed wooden decks, peglegs, eyepatches and long socks. The gas equation is elegant. It's informative. It's sexy. Not only a helpful formula if you're stuck in an airtight
- [Ten Days and Counting!](https://aschoonerofscience.com/just-for-fun/ten-days-and-counting/) - It's talk like a Pirate day on September 19 - that's a mere 10 days away! Time to practice your SAVVY's in the shower, and YARR when you answer the phone. Check out the official site here. Get your pirate on.
- [Embryogenesis 101 - Aging Ova](https://aschoonerofscience.com/sex-and-reproduction/embryogenesis-101-aging-ova/) - About 15% of couples trying to conceive experience infertility. Possible causes are faulty ovulation, blocked tubes, old ova, swimmers which don't swim, and erectile dysfuntion, to name just a few. Possible solutions run the full gambit from old wives tales to scientific technologies, and in the spirit of the Schooner I will focus exclusively on
- [Patent Pirates](https://aschoonerofscience.com/drugs/patent-pirates/) - Medicines are made for two major reasons - to help people and to make money. Which one is more important? On one hand, helping people is good. Curing the sick, easing suffering, what's not to love? On the other hand, money is the incentive for new innovations. That's just the way it works, you have
- [Science in the Age of Sail](https://aschoonerofscience.com/science-communication/science-in-the-age-of-sail/) - Oh, how my heart leapt when I heard about this! 'Tis a ship of science, just like my own schooner! It is the Beagle Project and it's rebuilding the tall-ship, the Beagle, which Charles Darwin travelled in before he wrote "On the Origin of Species." And I quote... We aim to rebuild the ship that
- [The Buzz about Nanobees](https://aschoonerofscience.com/poisons/the-buzz-about-nanobees/) - Nanobee shown at one zillion times magnification. Bee toxin sucks, in my opinion. As a young lass I was always scanning the grasses for bees whenever we reached the port. I was quite allergic to them - a sting would leave my foot hugely swollen and painful, and I am significantly better at hopping on
- [The Science of Zombies](https://aschoonerofscience.com/just-for-fun/the-science-of-zombies/) - Zombies represent a serious threat to human civilisation. At least, they would if they were real. This one has done the blog-round over the past couple of weeks, and it was just to brainy and delicious to turn down! Entitled "When Zombies Attack!" it is a mathematical modelling of an outbreak of zombie infection, similar
- [Cancer Cures are Dope](https://aschoonerofscience.com/jibber-jabber/cancer-cures-are-dope/) - Oh woe! I feel terrible for the slackness of my blogging lately. My internet at home is down, and it means cramming my posts into lunch breaks and after work when I'm exhausted. But walk with me down these timber planked decks and let me tell you a tale of Twitter, before we down today's
- [The Chemical Condom ](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/the-chemical-condom/) - It's a gel, it's a solid, it's CHEMICAL CONDOM! (Not shown above, above is something weird and I don't recommend it) Still in the experimental stages, researchers at the University of Utah have designed what may one day be a chemical condom. You kind of smear this liquid stuff inside yourself (I'm guessing) and at
- [National Science Week](https://aschoonerofscience.com/jibber-jabber/national-science-week/) - If you're an Australian lady or gent, it's currently Science Week. It has been since the 15th and I only found out today! WHY DO I ALWAYS MISS IT??? IS THIS BECAUSE I DON'T READ NEWSPAPERS??? It's not too late though, it's going until the 23rd so there is still plenty of sciencey goodness to
- [Now we have to worry about ninja squirrels?!](https://aschoonerofscience.com/just-for-fun/now-we-have-to-worry-about-ninja-squirrels/) - Okay, so this isn't exactly science, but I trust the high yield of awesome obtained in the following will make up for it. If the koala represents Australia, and the squirrel represents Europe and America, is this a metaphor? Methinks I will adopt one for my next sea voyage, rather than the traditional parrot. Sure,
- [Finding your Future Health at the Bottom of a Teacup](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/finding-your-future-health-at-the-bottom-of-a-teacup/) - Tea is good for you! Now, as a pirate I would rather YARR! And down a cup o' Joe followed by a mug o' rum, but in my alter ego as a person (the pirate is the real me), I am rather fond of a well-brewed cup of tea. Perhaps that comes of growing up
- [I got me a movie I want you to know](https://aschoonerofscience.com/jibber-jabber/i-got-me-a-movie-i-want-you-to-know/) - Today's post is a departure from the usual Science stuff, 'cos I've got to get this off my chest before I walk the plank! Do you know "Debaser" by the Pixies? You can listen to it below, because it is my favourite Pixies song (in fact, the only one I can stand listening to more
- [How to Mend a Broken Heart](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/how-to-mend-a-broken-heart/) - Yesterday I was at the pub, most sublime of settings for scientific debate, and had it put to me that within 10 - 20 years we would be able to grow hearts and other organs from stem cells and live forever. Imagine it - lung cancer? New lung please, hold the immunosuppressants (I find they
- [The Freakiest Fungus on the Face of the Planet](https://aschoonerofscience.com/the-realm-of-bizzare/the-freakiest-fungus-on-the-face-of-the-planet/) - This is the freakiest fungus I have ever seen, freakier even than the giant man-eating one in "Field Trip," my favourite episode of the X-Files (Season 4). The story is a bit like an X-File too, so for the purposes of this blog picture me red-headed, scientifically rigorous and secretly in love with Mulder (that
- [The Science of Scurvy](https://aschoonerofscience.com/science-at-home/the-science-of-scurvy/) - It has been a shocker of a weekend, to be honest. Not completely crap (new shoes only $67, and SEXY! plus lots of time spent with SexyMan *grin*), but today has been a bit of a write-off as the ex came over to pick up his stuff resulting in a fair amount of awkwardness. As
- [Naming Rights - Abusing your Power!](https://aschoonerofscience.com/jibber-jabber/naming-rights-abusing-your-power/) - If you had to name a new species, what would you call it? Would you name it after yourself, or would go for something a little more out there? Robert Krulwich has an interesting post about people who have used their species naming rights creatively, sometimes for evil! I strongly recommend you check it out,
- [Discounts on Personal Genome Scans](https://aschoonerofscience.com/jibber-jabber/discounts-on-personal-genome-scans/) - I was reading New Scientist this weekend (nerdy, I know) and I came across this - genetic companies are offering personal genome scans. WTF. Essentially, you provide a saliva sample, and they provide you with a bunch of info about your genetics. Here are some marketing gems. And 'cause I'm starting to learn how lazy
- [Cyclists who can't get it Down](https://aschoonerofscience.com/how-things-work/cyclists-who-cant-get-it-down/) - Hats and eyepatches off to Sci of Neurotopia for writing the funniest post I have read this year. I'm still shaking in my boots with laughter! The post is about Priapism. What is it? Well, it's a sustained erection, and when I say sustained I mean SUSTAINED - like a month of sustained! It is
- [Sea Lamprey - Genetic Spring Cleaner](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/sea-lamprey-genetic-spring-cleaner/) - Aye, there she blows - the sea lamprey. Check her out with the fangs - srsly, who needs that many teeth?! Even her tongue has teeth, talk about overkill! As adults they latch on and suck blood out of fish, but those teeth are not made of bone, but rather keratin, the same protein your
- [Happy 40th Anniversary to the Moon Landing!](https://aschoonerofscience.com/jibber-jabber/happy-40th-anniversary-to-the-moon-landing/) - As a Captain, you've got to respect people who sail new seas and boldly go where no man has gone before. Respect today for the Apollo 11, which first landed on the moon 40 years ago today - on July 20, 1969. NASA are well into celebration mode, with their anniversary page set up here.
- [A Little Bit of Everything](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/a-little-bit-of-everything/) - A new reason to swear, a synopsis of science communication, the negative effects of positive affirmations, and a 400 million year old penis. There is certainly plenty to write about at the moment, and I just couldn't pick between them! So here's a little bit of everything, an antipasto, if you will. Menu Item 1.
- [Festival of Ideas](https://aschoonerofscience.com/science-at-home/festival-of-ideas/) - What a weekend it's been! A big night out, a hangover, a roast dinner cooked by a friend, and a good movie (The Unborn, I recommend it if you like them scary). All in all I'm exhausted, and really can't be bothered washing the dishes right now. This weekend was also the Adelaide Festival of
- [The 5 most remarkable animal penises](https://aschoonerofscience.com/just-for-fun/the-5-most-remarkable-animal-penises/) - Ever heard of a penisologist? I hadn't either, until I saw this. Unfortunately I can't embed it, so you'll have to click through - but it's awesome! Check out the 5 most remarkable animal penises, you'll be glad you did!
- [Leopard Slug Loving](https://aschoonerofscience.com/the-realm-of-bizzare/leopard-slug-loving/) - Slugs having sex, sounds gooey and boring, right? SO wrong! Check out the video, I can't believe how romantic these slugs can be. Weird how hermaphrodites have sex isn't it? Sometimes you're the girl, sometimes he's the girl, sometimes you're both the girl... That's hot. Have you heard the myth of the hermaphrodite? The word
- [DMT - The Spirit Drug](https://aschoonerofscience.com/drugs/dmt-the-spirit-drug/) - DMT is nowhere near as famous as it should be. Everyone knows about heroin and cocaine and stuff, but talk to most people about DMT and they will never have heard about it. Until tonight, I didn't know too much about it either, but man, is it cool. It's tryptamine with two methyl groups coming
- [Neurons and the Noise of Life](https://aschoonerofscience.com/how-things-work/neurons-and-the-noise-of-life/) - Do you ever think about your brain? Wonder what's going on up there, how it all works, how all the billions of things you do every day - make coffee, drink coffee, work to deadlines, get stressed, go out and party, walk down the street - turn from thoughts in your head to actions? Do
- [A Pirate in teh Lab](https://aschoonerofscience.com/jibber-jabber/a-pirate-in-teh-lab/) - Today's question is: how to look hot in the lab while still staying true to your own personal pirate beliefs (which are assumed to be strong and full of ARR!!!). Here's my tips: 1. Lab coat - either white and figure-hugging like Cameron from House (how does she DO that?) or dark and ridiculously sexy
- [Chemistry Party](https://aschoonerofscience.com/just-for-fun/chemistry-party/) - The Schooner of Science is all about making science fun - and what could be more fun than a Chemistry Party! Well, this video is a little old, but if you haven't seen it yet it's worth a look. It's fun and it makes you think. via videosift.com If I only had more science-obsessed friends,
- [Stem Cells 101](https://aschoonerofscience.com/how-things-work/stem-cells-101/) - You have two choices as a cell and as a human (well, you have billions of choices, but for the purposes of this discussion let's limit it to two) - you can either make a decision and become something, or keep your options open and don't become anything. Stem cells are the latter. They don't
- [Mutant Goo in the Sewers](https://aschoonerofscience.com/the-realm-of-bizzare/mutant-goo-in-the-sewers/) - It's ALIVE!!!! I know, I know, it looks dodgy as! Deep Sea News posted the video above the other day - very cool, very disturbing stuff. Basically it's like a gob of goo found in a sewer which contracts and has tentacle-like things all over the place - but if you want a technical discussion
- [Loved Up](https://aschoonerofscience.com/jibber-jabber/loved-up/) - Captain Skellett has been seriously spoilt by her boyfriend today, who sent her the following - And the chocolate is so tasty!!! If you're from Aus or NZ, you can get 'em from Edible Blooms. Now I work on the front desk, and I spend about an hour a day sorting mail and receiving packages
- [Rejuvenated hopes for an anti-aging pill](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/rejuvenated-hopes-for-an-anti-aging-pill/) - Meet rapamycin, our latest hope for the fountain of youth. Check out all those chiral centers, it's freaking cyclical and everything!!! Can you BELIEVE it??? As published in Nature, the experiment went thusly: Researchers fed rapamycin to 20 month old mice (they were going to start earlier, but had apparently had some issues) and found
- [Now I'm a wiz on jizz!](https://aschoonerofscience.com/science-at-home/now-im-a-wiz-on-jizz/) - Sperm, everybody knows that millions of them are released everytime a man gets that feelin' and needs sexual healin', gets bored and has a couple of minutes to kill, or just gets a little overexcited like the guys in this music video. Everybody knows that nothing is hotter than spouting figures and numbers when you're
- [The Lemming Lemon](https://aschoonerofscience.com/unethics/the-lemming-lemon/) - Nothing like going retro and playing a game or fifty of LEMMINGS!!! I squandered many an evening in my youth curled over a computer screen, thinking of ways to keep those suicidal wanderers alive while they walked carelessly towards cliffs. Some of the levels were so bizzarro I'd wonder "how did they get themselves INTO
- [Oleander - Small Flowering Shrub OF DOOM!](https://aschoonerofscience.com/poisons/oleander-small-flowering-shrub-of-doom/) - Ahh, Oleander. Nice to say, pretty to look at, but have a nibble and you'll be dead ten ways from Sunday! They say that it's the most deadly plant in the world, but I have to say I have a problem with that - there's probably loads of other really terrible plants in the amazon,
- [Drinking to Music](https://aschoonerofscience.com/jibber-jabber/drinking-to-music/) - I'm having writers block today, so instead of regaling you with interesting yarns on ye olde chemie, I'll share with you my favourite drinking game because hey - this blog is about Schooners just as much as Science, right? First you need to download Roxanne by Sting and the Police (legally of course, as I
- [HIV vaccines - success calling, or another wrong number?](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/hiv-vaccines-success-calling-or-another-wrong-number/) - Science Dailly yesterday posted this article about a HIV vaccine being developed using gene transfer technology, which I have talked about earlier. Basically, what they want to do is put a gene encoding an immunoadhesin into an adeno-associated virus. The virus pokes the genetic material into your cells like a tiny, virus-shaped finger (thus the
- [Superbugs](https://aschoonerofscience.com/science-at-home/superbugs/) - "Ugh, I don't feel well, I think I have the flu, I've been sneezing all day," Nick said thickly through a blocked nose, Nick being the erstwhile brother of my boyfriend. "I doubt you have the flu," said I, as I have to countless others over the years. "You wouldn't be able to get out
- [Pretty Jewelry for the Scientific](https://aschoonerofscience.com/science-at-home/pretty-jewelry-for-the-scientific/) - I stumbled across this site a year or so ago in a maddened frenzy of "oh my god, I want scientific jewelry". I didn't actually purchase anything when I found the site, but still thought it was really awesome. It came across my path again just recently, and I just had to do SOMETHING about
- [Oxygen goes to school animated video](https://aschoonerofscience.com/just-for-fun/oxygen-goes-to-school-animated-video/) - Check out this awesome animated video. Oxygen from Christopher Hendryx on Vimeo. It was produced by Christopher Hendryx for his thesis for Computer Animation at Ringling College of Art + Design. Props to Chris, never has science been more fun! I think we need more of this on the internet, and indeed everywhere.
- [Migraine May Reduce Breast Cancer](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/migraine-may-reduce-breast-cancer/) - It's not exactly cutting-edge news this one, but I only heard about it last week and when I told my friend (hi Gemma!) she hadn't heard about it, and being a migraine sufferer herself was tres interested. So Gemma, this one's for you! A study of 3500 post-menopausal women last year found that those who
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- [Staphylococcus Aureus](https://aschoonerofscience.com/jibber-jabber/staphylococcusaurus/) - It's haemolytic, it's gram-positive, it's
- [Why writing a blog is difficult in a coffee shop](https://aschoonerofscience.com/jibber-jabber/why-writing-a-blog-is-difficult-in-a-coffee-shop/) - The plan today was to take advantage of the wonderful coffee and free wifi at my local coffee shop and write a blog entry. Here's why it didn't work: 1. I couldn't get a table for 10 minutes because they were full (WHY don't they have more tables here?) 2. A group of four kids
- [Antibacterials Shmantibacterials](https://aschoonerofscience.com/science-at-home/antibacterials-shmantibacterials/) - I started a new job last week, and they have antibacterial handsoap everywhere. Everywhere! I mean, they also have a coffee machine AND a pool outside, so I am totally not dissing them at all (a pool, seriously. A pool. And a coffee machine in a cool outdoor courtyard with park benches and stuff. Awesome)
- [Cancer fighting nanoliposomes](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/cancer-fighting-nanoliposomes/) - Georgetown University researchers led by Dr Esther Chang have had some recent success with Phase 1 trials of cool little nanoliposomes (like fat only smaller) which fight cancer by gene therapy. Last time I checked, I thought gene therapy was years and years down the track, decades even, that it was the stuff of science
- [Exploring the blurry line between colony and individual ](https://aschoonerofscience.com/the-realm-of-bizzare/exploring-the-blurry-line-between-colony-and-individual/) - What makes something a colony or individual? When it comes to the portuguese man-o-war, aspen trees and giant underground fungi the line isn't so clear.
- [Exploring the blurry line between colony and individual ](https://aschoonerofscience.com/the-realm-of-bizzare/exploring-the-blurry-line-between-colony-and-individual/) - What makes something a colony or individual? When it comes to the portuguese man-o-war, aspen trees and giant underground fungi the line isn't so clear.
- [Nubia, irrigation and parasitic worms, a tale told by a Mummy](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/nubia-irrigation-and-parasitic-worms-a-tale-told-by-a-mummy/) - Early irrigation channels changed how humans were affected by parasites. The study used mummies from Ancient Nubia.
- [Super cute kittens conceived by science](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/super-cute-kittens-conceived-by-science/) - Rare African black-footed cats were conceived through IVF from frozen sperm in an attempt to keep the species alive.
- [Have a nap and let your computer cure cancer](https://aschoonerofscience.com/recent-research/have-a-nap-and-let-your-computer-cure-cancer/) - Grid computing is discovering new drugs and ways to improve drinking water. It works by personal computers running virtual experiments when not in use.
- [Did the CIA spike a bakery in France with hallucinogens?](https://aschoonerofscience.com/poisons/did-the-cia-spike-a-bakery-in-france-with-hallucinogens/) - On August 15, 1951 a small town in southern France called Pont-Saint-Esprit briefly entered the twilight zone. Hundreds of people reported acute psychotic episodes and physical symptoms such as nausea. They experienced traumatic hallucinations, and 50 of those affected were put in asylums. Five died. The event was later traced back to pain maudit -
- [DNA dating websites - the genetics of love](https://aschoonerofscience.com/just-for-fun/dna-dating-websites-the-genetics-of-love/) - A new brand of "scientific" dating has sprouted up. It draws on an idea wrote about in the Chemistry of Kissing - basically, you have more snap, crackle and pop with someone who has an immune system very different to your own. Through your genes combined, the resulting offspring will have a stronger, more diverse
- [St Elmo's Fire](https://aschoonerofscience.com/how-things-work/st-elmos-fire/) - Some sailors regard it with fear and amazement, others see it as an omen of things to come, but when I see St Elmo's Fire burning on the masts above I am struck with curiousity for this most bizarre natural phenomenon. St Elmo's Fire appears as a blueish glow gracing the tips of masts and

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- [nanopatch](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/nanopatch/)
- [nanotechnology](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/nanotechnology/)
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- [needle](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/needle/)
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- [Langerhan cell](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/langerhan-cell/)
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- [skin](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/skin/)
- [epidermis](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/epidermis/)
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- [miraculin](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/miraculin/)
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- [taste trip](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/taste-trip/)
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- [archea](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/archea/)
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- [morphine](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/morphine/)
- [endogenous](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/endogenous/)
- [drug](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/drug/)
- [human](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/human/)
- [mouse](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/mouse/)
- [brain](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/brain/)
- [addiction](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/addiction/)
- [created](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/created/)
- [made](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/made/)
- [opium](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/opium/)
- [poppies](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/poppies/)
- [synthetic](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/synthetic/)
- [THP](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/thp/)
- [labeling](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/labeling/)
- [molecules](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/molecules/)
- [conversion](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/conversion/)
- [urine](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/urine/)
- [excreted](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/excreted/)
- [codeine](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/codeine/)
- [pain](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/pain/)
- [hallucinogens](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/hallucinogens/)
- [comics](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/comics/)
- [explosm](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/explosm/)
- [cyanide and happiness](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/cyanide-and-happiness/)
- [LSD](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/lsd/)
- [marijuana](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/marijuana/)
- [funny](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/funny/)
- [elephant](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/elephant/)
- [spider web](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/spider-web/)
- [synthetic cell](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/synthetic-cell/)
- [synthetic genome](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/synthetic-genome/)
- [yeast](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/yeast/)
- [mycoplasma](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/mycoplasma/)
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- [computer](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/computer/)
- [ethics](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/ethics/)
- [genome](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/genome/)
- [chromosome](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/chromosome/)
- [cough suppressant](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/cough-suppressant/)
- [coughing](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/coughing/)
- [chocolate](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/chocolate/)
- [cocoa](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/cocoa/)
- [theobromine](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/theobromine/)
- [ketamin](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/ketamin/)
- [PCP](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/pcp/)
- [dextromethorphan](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/dextromethorphan/)
- [cough](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/cough/)
- [cold](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/cold/)
- [toxic](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/toxic/)
- [aboriginal](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/aboriginal/)
- [indigenous](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/indigenous/)
- [Queensland](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/queensland/)
- [bread](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/bread/)
- [initiation](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/initiation/)
- [ancient](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/ancient/)
- [Quarks](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/quarks/)
- [florence and the machine](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/florence-and-the-machine/)
- [strangeness and charm](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/strangeness-and-charm/)
- [subatomic](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/subatomic/)
- [oil spill](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/oil-spill/)
- [clean](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/clean/)
- [recover](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/recover/)
- [Gulf of Mexico](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/gulf-of-mexico/)
- [amber](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/amber/)
- [beetles](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/beetles/)
- [preserved](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/preserved/)
- [Cape York](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/cape-york/)
- [human genome project](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/human-genome-project/)
- [anniversary](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/anniversary/)
- [eastern hognose snake](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/eastern-hognose-snake/)
- [playing dead](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/playing-dead/)
- [acting](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/acting/)
- [dead](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/dead/)
- [defensive](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/defensive/)
- [cobra](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/cobra/)
- [safe](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/safe/)
- [closed](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/closed/)
- [faking](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/faking/)
- [toad](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/toad/)
- [eastern](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/eastern/)
- [hognose](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/hognose/)
- [snake](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/snake/)
- [mimic](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/mimic/)
- [whale](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/whale/)
- [sperm whale](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/sperm-whale/)
- [leviathan](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/leviathan/)
- [leviathan melvillei](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/leviathan-melvillei/)
- [moby dick](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/moby-dick/)
- [herman melville](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/herman-melville/)
- [eating](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/eating/)
- [predator](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/predator/)
- [prehistoric](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/prehistoric/)
- [baleen](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/baleen/)
- [discovery](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/discovery/)
- [marine](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/marine/)
- [peru](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/peru/)
- [jellyfish](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/jellyfish/)
- [marine animals](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/marine-animals/)
- [music](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/music/)
- [song](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/song/)
- [mojo](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/mojo/)
- [sexual](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/sexual/)
- [attraction](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/attraction/)
- [yale](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/yale/)
- [canada](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/canada/)
- [mojoceratops](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/mojoceratops/)
- [triceratops](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/triceratops/)
- [frill](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/frill/)
- [powered](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/powered/)
- [plane](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/plane/)
- [airplane](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/airplane/)
- [aeroplane](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/aeroplane/)
- [solar impulse](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/solar-impulse/)
- [night](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/night/)
- [round the world](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/round-the-world/)
- [competition](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/competition/)
- [big blog theory](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/big-blog-theory/)
- [national science week](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/national-science-week/)
- [antibacterial](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/antibacterial/)
- [antibiotic](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/antibiotic/)
- [factors](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/factors/)
- [kills](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/kills/)
- [royal jelly](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/royal-jelly/)
- [bee defensin 1](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/bee-defensin-1/)
- [MGO](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/mgo/)
- [acidic](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/acidic/)
- [sugar](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/sugar/)
- [wounds](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/wounds/)
- [healing](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/healing/)
- [glucose oxidase](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/glucose-oxidase/)
- [hydrogen peroxide](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/hydrogen-peroxide/)
- [bleach](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/bleach/)
- [methylglyoxal](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/methylglyoxal/)
- [mad honey](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/mad-honey/)
- [movie](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/movie/)
- [poison](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/poison/)
- [toxin](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/toxin/)
- [grayanotoxin](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/grayanotoxin/)
- [flowers](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/flowers/)
- [xenophon](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/xenophon/)
- [moth](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/moth/)
- [bogong moth](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/bogong-moth/)
- [sydney olympics](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/sydney-olympics/)
- [olympics 2010](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/olympics-2010/)
- [opera singer](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/opera-singer/)
- [wildlife](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/wildlife/)
- [light pollution](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/light-pollution/)
- [moths](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/moths/)
- [sydney](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/sydney/)
- [plague](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/plague/)
- [migration](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/migration/)
- [aestivate](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/aestivate/)
- [bush tucker](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/bush-tucker/)
- [circle](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/circle/)
- [light](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/light/)
- [celestial navigation](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/celestial-navigation/)
- [moon](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/moon/)
- [laptop](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/laptop/)
- [bag](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/bag/)
- [handbag](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/handbag/)
- [elle](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/elle/)
- [portable light](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/portable-light/)
- [power](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/power/)
- [charge](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/charge/)
- [phone](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/phone/)
- [USB](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/usb/)
- [lamp](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/lamp/)
- [electricity](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/electricity/)
- [developing](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/developing/)
- [train](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/train/)
- [bullet](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/bullet/)
- [shinkansen](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/shinkansen/)
- [japan](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/japan/)
- [kingfisher](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/kingfisher/)
- [nose](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/nose/)
- [bill](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/bill/)
- [shape](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/shape/)
- [tunnel boom](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/tunnel-boom/)
- [sonic boom](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/sonic-boom/)
- [tunnel](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/tunnel/)
- [shock wave](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/shock-wave/)
- [noise](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/noise/)
- [ivy](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/ivy/)
- [nanoparticles](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/nanoparticles/)
- [english ivy](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/english-ivy/)
- [organic](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/organic/)
- [chemical](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/chemical/)
- [sunscreen](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/sunscreen/)
- [sun cream](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/sun-cream/)
- [safety](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/safety/)
- [lotion](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/lotion/)
- [cream](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/cream/)
- [water resistant](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/water-resistant/)
- [titanium dioxide](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/titanium-dioxide/)
- [care](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/care/)
- [skin cancer](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/skin-cancer/)
- [sunburn](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/sunburn/)
- [broad spectrum](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/broad-spectrum/)
- [pie](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/pie/)
- [strawberry](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/strawberry/)
- [pi](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/pi/)
- [pi day](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/pi-day/)
- [July 22](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/july-22/)
- [approximation](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/approximation/)
- [inside insides](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/inside-insides/)
- [mri](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/mri/)
- [fruit](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/fruit/)
- [picture](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/picture/)
- [lions mane](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/lions-mane/)
- [pieces](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/pieces/)
- [sting](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/sting/)
- [tentacles](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/tentacles/)
- [first aid](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/first-aid/)
- [dreams](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/dreams/)
- [ketamine](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/ketamine/)
- [sedative](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/sedative/)
- [dissociative](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/dissociative/)
- [cocktail](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/cocktail/)
- [inception](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/inception/)
- [dreaming](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/dreaming/)
- [hallucination](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/hallucination/)
- [ipod](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/ipod/)
- [move](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/move/)
- [battery](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/battery/)
- [adopt](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/adopt/)
- [microbe](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/microbe/)
- [deep](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/deep/)
- [sea](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/sea/)
- [ferroxydans](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/ferroxydans/)
- [mariprofundus](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/mariprofundus/)
- [activities](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/activities/)
- [sprout](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/sprout/)
- [pea](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/pea/)
- [lung](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/lung/)
- [man](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/man/)
- [hospital](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/hospital/)
- [bbc](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/bbc/)
- [growing](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/growing/)
- [germinate](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/germinate/)
- [old](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/old/)
- [bottles](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/bottles/)
- [glass](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/glass/)
- [apothecary](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/apothecary/)
- [chemist](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/chemist/)
- [collectibles](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/collectibles/)
- [hexamine](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/hexamine/)
- [salol](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/salol/)
- [iodoformum](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/iodoformum/)
- [1800](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/1800/)
- [19th century](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/19th-century/)
- [gulgong](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/gulgong/)
- [nsw](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/nsw/)
- [ergotism](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/ergotism/)
- [Pont-Saint-Esprit](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/pont-saint-esprit/)
- [france](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/france/)
- [mass](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/mass/)
- [psychosis](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/psychosis/)
- [CIA](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/cia/)
- [Hank Albarelli](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/hank-albarelli/)
- [nausea](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/nausea/)
- [cold war](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/cold-war/)
- [warfare](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/warfare/)
- [biological](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/biological/)
- [ergot](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/ergot/)
- [rye](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/rye/)
- [greek](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/greek/)
- [myth](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/myth/)
- [demeter](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/demeter/)
- [persephone](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/persephone/)
- [hades](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/hades/)
- [underworld](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/underworld/)
- [pomegranate](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/pomegranate/)
- [contraceptive](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/contraceptive/)
- [eleusinian mysteries](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/eleusinian-mysteries/)
- [kykeon](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/kykeon/)
- [talk like a pirate day](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/talk-like-a-pirate-day/)
- [margay](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/margay/)
- [brazil](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/brazil/)
- [cat](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/cat/)
- [feline](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/feline/)
- [call](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/call/)
- [sound](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/sound/)
- [tamarin](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/tamarin/)
- [pied](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/pied/)
- [amazon](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/amazon/)
- [primate](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/primate/)
- [lure](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/lure/)
- [prey](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/prey/)
- [fake science](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/fake-science/)
- [moustache](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/moustache/)
- [beard](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/beard/)
- [world beard day](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/world-beard-day/)
- [fun](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/fun/)
- [joke](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/joke/)
- [cookie](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/cookie/)
- [cutter](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/cutter/)
- [lab](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/lab/)
- [beaker](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/beaker/)
- [atom](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/atom/)
- [flask](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/flask/)
- [test tube](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/test-tube/)
- [glassware](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/glassware/)
- [cooking](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/cooking/)
- [baking](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/baking/)
- [bioarcheologist](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/bioarcheologist/)
- [Nubia](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/nubia/)
- [Nubian](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/nubian/)
- [beer](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/beer/)
- [biochemistry](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/biochemistry/)
- [tetracycline](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/tetracycline/)
- [streptomyces](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/streptomyces/)
- [mass spectrometry](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/mass-spectrometry/)
- [bones](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/bones/)
- [date](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/date/)
- [penicillin](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/penicillin/)
- [early](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/early/)
- [absorb](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/absorb/)
- [invented](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/invented/)
- [drink](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/drink/)
- [cure](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/cure/)
- [3d](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/3d/)
- [stereoscopic](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/stereoscopic/)
- [bob](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/bob/)
- [pigeon](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/pigeon/)
- [head](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/head/)
- [walk](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/walk/)
- [distance](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/distance/)
- [depth](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/depth/)
- [perception](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/perception/)
- [squirrel](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/squirrel/)
- [animal](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/animal/)
- [eyes](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/eyes/)
- [experiments](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/experiments/)
- [stereogram](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/stereogram/)
- [vision](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/vision/)
- [binocular](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/binocular/)
- [kids](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/kids/)
- [weekend](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/weekend/)
- [september](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/september/)
- [events](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/events/)
- [questacon](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/questacon/)
- [biodiversity](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/biodiversity/)
- [children](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/children/)
- [things to do](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/things-to-do/)
- [11](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/11/)
- [12](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/12/)
- [apocalypse](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/apocalypse/)
- [survive](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/survive/)
- [infection](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/infection/)
- [biology](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/biology/)
- [immunology](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/immunology/)
- [undead](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/undead/)
- [yolngu](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/yolngu/)
- [translate](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/translate/)
- [english](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/english/)
- [dictionary](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/dictionary/)
- [phrases](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/phrases/)
- [matha](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/matha/)
- [arnhem land](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/arnhem-land/)
- [northern territory](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/northern-territory/)
- [language](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/language/)
- [2](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/2/)
- [sequel](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/sequel/)
- [deep sea](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/deep-sea/)
- [film](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/film/)
- [submarine](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/submarine/)
- [footage](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/footage/)
- [mariana](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/mariana/)
- [trench](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/trench/)
- [dolphin](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/dolphin/)
- [tuna](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/tuna/)
- [bycatch](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/bycatch/)
- [fish](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/fish/)
- [die](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/die/)
- [disaster](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/disaster/)
- [environment](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/environment/)
- [nobel](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/nobel/)
- [prize](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/prize/)
- [2010](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/2010/)
- [ivf](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/ivf/)
- [announced](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/announced/)
- [in vitro](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/in-vitro/)
- [fertilisation](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/fertilisation/)
- [physiology](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/physiology/)
- [robert edwards](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/robert-edwards/)
- [graphene](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/graphene/)
- [silicon](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/silicon/)
- [uses](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/uses/)
- [potential](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/potential/)
- [sickle](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/sickle/)
- [cell](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/cell/)
- [anemia](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/anemia/)
- [anaemia](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/anaemia/)
- [advantage](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/advantage/)
- [mendelian](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/mendelian/)
- [inherited](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/inherited/)
- [mosquito](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/mosquito/)
- [disease](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/disease/)
- [malaria](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/malaria/)
- [palladium](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/palladium/)
- [catalyst](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/catalyst/)
- [suzuki](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/suzuki/)
- [heck](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/heck/)
- [negishi](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/negishi/)
- [does](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/does/)
- [means](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/means/)
- [what](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/what/)
- [molecule](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/molecule/)
- [png](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/png/)
- [papua](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/papua/)
- [guinea](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/guinea/)
- [katydid](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/katydid/)
- [species](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/species/)
- [discovered](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/discovered/)
- [conservation](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/conservation/)
- [international](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/international/)
- [platypus](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/platypus/)
- [ten](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/ten/)
- [ovary](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/ovary/)
- [eggs](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/eggs/)
- [facts](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/facts/)
- [interesting](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/interesting/)
- [amazing](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/amazing/)
- [electrolocation](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/electrolocation/)
- [electroreceptor](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/electroreceptor/)
- [monotreme](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/monotreme/)
- [venom](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/venom/)
- [mating](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/mating/)
- [males](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/males/)
- [left](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/left/)
- [puggles](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/puggles/)
- [convergent](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/convergent/)
- [bird](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/bird/)
- [gene](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/gene/)
- [protein](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/protein/)
- [grid](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/grid/)
- [computing](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/computing/)
- [computers](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/computers/)
- [personal](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/personal/)
- [crowd](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/crowd/)
- [source](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/source/)
- [idle](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/idle/)
- [drinking](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/drinking/)
- [filter](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/filter/)
- [nanotube](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/nanotube/)
- [neuroblastoma](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/neuroblastoma/)
- [help](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/help/)
- [volunteer](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/volunteer/)
- [free](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/free/)
- [world community grid](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/world-community-grid/)
- [citizen](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/citizen/)
- [PC](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/pc/)
- [mac](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/mac/)
- [linux](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/linux/)
- [internet](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/internet/)
- [network](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/network/)
- [virtual](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/virtual/)
- [experiment](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/experiment/)
- [simulations](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/simulations/)
- [rational](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/rational/)
- [QSAR](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/qsar/)
- [online](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/online/)
- [dissolve](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/dissolve/)
- [gold](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/gold/)
- [acid](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/acid/)
- [aqua](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/aqua/)
- [regia](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/regia/)
- [noble](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/noble/)
- [metal](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/metal/)
- [nitric](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/nitric/)
- [hydrochloric](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/hydrochloric/)
- [recoined](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/recoined/)
- [war](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/war/)
- [nazi](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/nazi/)
- [protect](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/protect/)
- [hide](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/hide/)
- [denmark](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/denmark/)
- [george de hevesy](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/george-de-hevesy/)
- [story](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/story/)
- [big](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/big/)
- [bang](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/bang/)
- [theory](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/theory/)
- [tv show](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/tv-show/)
- [tech](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/tech/)
- [consultant](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/consultant/)
- [monkey](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/monkey/)
- [sneeze](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/sneeze/)
- [rhinopithecus](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/rhinopithecus/)
- [strykeri](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/strykeri/)
- [snub](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/snub/)
- [nosed](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/nosed/)
- [rain](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/rain/)
- [burma](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/burma/)
- [china](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/china/)
- [Myanmar](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/myanmar/)
- [upturned](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/upturned/)
- [mind](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/mind/)
- [control](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/control/)
- [thought](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/thought/)
- [change](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/change/)
- [epilepsy](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/epilepsy/)
- [wire](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/wire/)
- [neuron](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/neuron/)
- [image](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/image/)
- [activated](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/activated/)
- [temporal](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/temporal/)
- [lobe](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/lobe/)
- [bacteriogram](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/bacteriogram/)
- [degrade](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/degrade/)
- [sample](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/sample/)
- [self-portrait](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/self-portrait/)
- [exhibition](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/exhibition/)
- [easy](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/easy/)
- [glow](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/glow/)
- [UV](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/uv/)
- [black](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/black/)
- [paint](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/paint/)
- [nanoparticle](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/nanoparticle/)
- [urchin](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/urchin/)
- [shaped](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/shaped/)
- [spikey](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/spikey/)
- [emit](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/emit/)
- [radiation](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/radiation/)
- [bioluminescent](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/bioluminescent/)
- [biolight](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/biolight/)
- [NSU](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/nsu/)
- [giant](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/giant/)
- [film gulf](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/film-gulf/)
- [mexico](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/mexico/)
- [Stygiomedusa gigantea](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/stygiomedusa-gigantea/)
- [sudoku](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/sudoku/)
- [e-coli](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/e-coli/)
- [solve](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/solve/)
- [phage](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/phage/)
- [iGEM](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/igem/)
- [puzzle](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/puzzle/)
- [signals](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/signals/)
- [data](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/data/)
- [information](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/information/)
- [games](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/games/)
- [CERN](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/cern/)
- [alpha](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/alpha/)
- [atrap](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/atrap/)
- [hydrogen](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/hydrogen/)
- [antihydrogen](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/antihydrogen/)
- [antimatter](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/antimatter/)
- [big bang](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/big-bang/)
- [particle](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/particle/)
- [magnetic](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/magnetic/)
- [field](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/field/)
- [study](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/study/)
- [opposite](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/opposite/)
- [annihilate](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/annihilate/)
- [mutual](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/mutual/)
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- [vapour](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/vapour/)
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- [ruyan](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/ruyan/)
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- [anthology](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/anthology/)
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- [vampire](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/vampire/)
- [flying](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/flying/)
- [frog](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/frog/)
- [vietnam](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/vietnam/)
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- [fangs](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/fangs/)
- [museum](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/museum/)
- [superconductor](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/superconductor/)
- [wine](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/wine/)
- [whiskey](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/whiskey/)
- [sake](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/sake/)
- [commercial](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/commercial/)
- [booze](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/booze/)
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- [heat](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/heat/)
- [temperature](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/temperature/)
- [soak](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/soak/)
- [ethanol](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/ethanol/)
- [metals](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/metals/)
- [FeTe](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/fete/)
- [gingerbread](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/gingerbread/)
- [recipe](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/recipe/)
- [decorating](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/decorating/)
- [laboratory](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/laboratory/)
- [theme](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/theme/)
- [decoration](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/decoration/)
- [specialist](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/specialist/)
- [icing](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/icing/)
- [design](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/design/)
- [helicopter](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/helicopter/)
- [house](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/house/)
- [antarctica](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/antarctica/)
- [wood](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/wood/)
- [block](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/block/)
- [ice](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/ice/)
- [south](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/south/)
- [pole](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/pole/)
- [teaspoon](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/teaspoon/)
- [spoon](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/spoon/)
- [disappear](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/disappear/)
- [take](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/take/)
- [rate](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/rate/)
- [decay](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/decay/)
- [radioactive](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/radioactive/)
- [reduce](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/reduce/)
- [numbers](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/numbers/)
- [lost](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/lost/)
- [stolen](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/stolen/)
- [taken](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/taken/)
- [theft](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/theft/)
- [workplace](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/workplace/)
- [coffee](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/coffee/)
- [half life](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/half-life/)
- [halflife](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/halflife/)
- [hive](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/hive/)
- [small](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/small/)
- [beetle](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/beetle/)
- [small hive beetle](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/small-hive-beetle/)
- [africa](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/africa/)
- [native](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/native/)
- [bees](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/bees/)
- [apis](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/apis/)
- [mummify](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/mummify/)
- [resin](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/resin/)
- [method](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/method/)
- [destry](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/destry/)
- [hives](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/hives/)
- [fiction](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/fiction/)
- [aethina](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/aethina/)
- [event](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/event/)
- [watch](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/watch/)
- [home](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/home/)
- [conference](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/conference/)
- [barcode](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/barcode/)
- [life](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/life/)
- [inspring](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/inspring/)
- [melbourne](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/melbourne/)
- [communication](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/communication/)
- [changing](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/changing/)
- [waters](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/waters/)
- [sculpture](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/sculpture/)
- [flare](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/flare/)
- [valentines](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/valentines/)
- [day](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/day/)
- [coronal](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/coronal/)
- [cme](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/cme/)
- [Utah](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/utah/)
- [brontomerus](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/brontomerus/)
- [mcintoshi](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/mcintoshi/)
- [thunder](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/thunder/)
- [thighs](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/thighs/)
- [kick](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/kick/)
- [attack](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/attack/)
- [predators](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/predators/)
- [sauropod](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/sauropod/)
- [fossil](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/fossil/)
- [discover](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/discover/)
- [stereographer](https://aschoonerofscience.com/tag/stereographer/)
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