Posts Tagged ‘Biology’
National Science Week
Posted by: skelliot on: August 21, 2008
An orchestra of car horns blew as my brother slid across the bonnet of a Mercedes. He landed, cat like, on the other side and sprinted onto the side walk towards the Asia centre. I stumbled behind him followed closely by his good friend Kat, cars screeching to a halt as we failed to get [...]
Cloning is cool.
Posted by: skelliot on: May 23, 2008
Most people in Australia would know of the Thylacinus cynocephalus, more commonly known as the Thylacine or the Tasmanian Tiger. For those of you that don’t know what the creature is let me give you a quick run down.
The Tasmanian Tiger is not a tiger at all, and despite its looks it isn’t a canine [...]
Podcast Run-down!
Posted by: skelliot on: May 5, 2008
Welcome to the world of tomorrow! Blogs are old news, the age of the podcast has begun and in honor of the dawning of this new age I thought I would do a skeptical podcast run down of the casts that I currently (or have in the past) listen too!
Geologic Podcast
http://www.geologicpodcast.com/
Do you want to [...]
Meat Machines.
Posted by: skelliot on: February 17, 2008
Craig Venter is the scientific bad arse of our time. My cool’o’meter goes of the chart when I think about this topic.
Fairly recently (I’m slightly out of date with this one so I apologise), Venter and his team created the first synthetic gene in the lab. This is the next step on his quest to [...]
Do you think he saurus?
Posted by: skelliot on: January 7, 2008
You stand on an expansive open prairie knee deep in strange fern like plants. Their rubbery branches brush against your legs as the warm breeze washes over you. You look out towards the towering mountains, covered in conifer trees. You hear a strange noise from there. Like a loud moan of a dying cow and [...]
The Bee Movie Befuddlement
Posted by: skelliot on: December 9, 2007
- In: Film| General| Religion
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On Friday I took a trip to my local cinema with a good friend to see a new film called The Bee Movie. I’m sure you have heard of it. Aside from it being highly amusing with the comedic genius of Jerry Seinfeld as Barry B. Benson the premise for the film was surprisingly relevant [...]
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