by Captain Skellett | Oct 13, 2010 | Recent Research, Science Communication, Sex and Reproduction, The Realm of Bizzare
Ah, the elusive platypus. The water dwelling animal with fur, webbed feet and a beak. It may just be the strangest animal on the planet. Not only does it look weird, it’s poisonous, can sense electricity, lays eggs and secrete milk through their skin, and have...
by Captain Skellett | Aug 27, 2010 | Drugs, Poisons, Sex and Reproduction, The Realm of Bizzare, Unethics
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...
by Captain Skellett | Jul 11, 2010 | Recent Research, Sex and Reproduction
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...
by Captain Skellett | May 2, 2010 | Recent Research, Sex and Reproduction
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...
by Captain Skellett | Apr 20, 2010 | Recent Research, Sex and Reproduction
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...
by Captain Skellett | Apr 11, 2010 | Poisons, Recent Research, Sex and Reproduction
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...