by Rick Coste | Sep 10, 2021 | Post
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...
by Rick Coste | Sep 9, 2021 | Post
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...
by Rick Coste | Sep 7, 2021 | Post
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...
by Rick Coste | Sep 4, 2021 | Post
Never Say That… ! “The idea, then, which I form of the progress of organic life upon the globe—and the hypothesis is applicable to all similar theatres of vital being—is, that the simplest and most primitive type, under a law to which that of like-production is...
by Rick Coste | Aug 31, 2021 | Post
Captain, Governor, and Weatherman Robert Fitzroy became captain of the HMS Beagle at the ripe old age of 26. This was because the previous Captain, Pringle Stokes, had shot himself in 1828. The life of a naval captain wasn’t an easy one. The voyages away from home and...
by Rick Coste | Aug 29, 2021 | Post
What’s Stomata With You? Here’s something I bet you’ve never thought about. At least if you’re not really into the mechanics of plant biology. Did you know that plants carefully regulate the loss of water depending on humidity? They do this through small,...
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