by Captain Skellett | Aug 3, 2011 | The Realm of Bizzare
I found this great post on the Portuguese man-o-war, known as the bluebottle in Australia, over at Deep Sea News the other day. It’s eating a fish! The post also said: Remember this species is colonial and made of four different polyps or zooids, working in...
by Captain Skellett | Sep 10, 2010 | Science Communication
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...
by Captain Skellett | May 18, 2010 | Drugs, Just for Fun
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...
by Captain Skellett | Jan 1, 2010 | How Things Work, The Realm of Bizzare
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?...
by Captain Skellett | Dec 3, 2009 | Jibber Jabber, Just for Fun, Sex and Reproduction
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...
