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Nature Knows Best

June 13, 2018

Recent news articles show how engineers and inventors are helping mankind by imitating what plants, cells and animals do every day. A new kind of vaccine based on spider silk (Science Daily). Because spider silk is tough and yet biodegradable, it can be used as a delivery capsule for vaccines that might otherwise be resisted […]

Health

Outdoor Play Is Good for Children

May 19, 2018

A program to re-introduce kids to the great outdoors says, "Dirt is Good."

Human Body

“Y” Your Inner Ear Hears So Well

May 17, 2018

A new paper about the inner ear shows an additional level of organization and architecture that increases sensitivity and frequency discrimination.

Mammals

Beavers Clean the Soil

May 12, 2018

Without beaver dams, loss of nutrients from soil would increase, and pollutants from upstream erosion would afflict waterways.

Health

Honor Your Body, Honor Your Creator

April 12, 2018

We should all treat our bodies as the gifts that they are, even when parts are not working as well as originally designed.

Politics and Ethics

Finally Planned Parenthood Comes Clean. Or Did They?

April 9, 2018

Planned Parenthood's founder was a bigoted racist, intent on purifying the human race from less-evolved beings like "blacks, Jews and Italians." Her anti-black organization's policies continue today.

Politics and Ethics

Darwinian Eugenics Hit Latinos Hard

April 4, 2018

It is well-known that forced Darwinian eugenic sterilization programs targeted Blacks, but evidence is surfacing that the Latinos were also targets.

Intelligent Design

Paley’s Watch Found

March 30, 2018

There actually is a clock in the heath, and it's in our bodies, too.

Biomimetics

Earwig Origami and Maple Seed Rockets

March 28, 2018

Engineering solutions from unlikely organisms inspire applications for wide-ranging human needs.

Amazing Facts

City Trees Give More in Ecosystem Services Than They Cost

March 25, 2018

City planners need to plant more trees in urban areas, but the benefits go beyond beautifying pavement. Urban areas occupy 4% of the land surface of the planet, says Theodore A. Endreny in a Comment article in Nature Communications. That may strike readers as surprising, given most people’s attention to cities for work, travel and […]