Long piece about how much research is happening in biology.

https://guzey.com/how-life-sciences-actually-work/#universities-seem-to-maximize-their-profits-with-good-research-being-a-side-effect

Part of it is about how much you need to investigate to have a well-informed opinion-- in this case, about the condition of a science.

Part of it is about, ( Read more... )

The Second Brain describes the substantial amount of nervous system needed to run the digestive tract ( Read more... )

biology gets complicated

An unusual game is being played out in the Coast Range of California. Three alternative male strategies are locked in an ecological "perpetual motion machine" from which there appears little escape. As in the rock-paper-scissors game where rock beats scissors, paper beats rock, and scissors beats paper, three morphs of ( Read more... )