A Selection Strategy

If you were somehow in control of repopulating and regenerating an area that had essentially been wiped clean of life, how would you do it?  With limited resources at your disposal would you decide to throw all your effort into producing as many offspring as possible,...
What’s the Password

What’s the Password

What’s the Password If you wanted an alcoholic drink one hundred years, you were out of luck. You either waited until 1933, when the constitutional ban on liquor was lifted, or you found your way to an underground establishment known as a “speakeasy”. It was...
The Evolution of Consciousness?

The Evolution of Consciousness?

The Evolution of Consciousness? “… the laws of organic development have been occasionally used for a special end, just as man uses them for his special ends; and, I do not see that the law of “natural selection” can be said to be disproved, if it can be shown that man...
The Joy of Mutation

The Joy of Mutation

The Joy of Mutation Imagine a world without mutants. I don’t mean those super-powered heroes that populate the comics and movies from Marvel. I’m talking about you, me, and everyone else we know. It doesn’t stop there. It extends to the grass at our feet, the trees...

A Bit of Astrobiology

How do we find life in a galaxy, or galaxies, far far away while sitting here on Earth? It’s not just by looking through telescopes or sending probes.  Those will tell us a few things, but not everything.  We need a multi-disciplinary approach.  One that combines...