Dolphins help others
This is serious! I owe my life to a dolphin. Let me tell you about it. We’ve all seen that US Navy ad on TV with the dolphin jumping out of the water ahead of the aircraft carrier but we…
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Monthly Archive: February 2014
Pregnant Men – Yes
Sure, why not? It isn’t exactly my thing, but who am I to tell someone what to do? By all means, if that gender allowance will advance other potential advancements in medicine and biological science, I’m all for it. So…
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How do Fish Breathe
It is hard to imagine how something could take in a big mouthful of water, swallow it and get the oxygen out of it, but that is what fish do. If we try to breathe underwater and the water gets…
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Projectile Motion
February 11, 2014 Physical Science
Throwing a ball vertically upward, we can catch it right back to our hand. The ball leaves our hand. Then it reaches the highest point. It comes back to our hand, exactly on its initial place. In other case, throwing…
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Predicting Rain
February 11, 2014 Earth Science
The sky begins to darken and the summer breeze you have been yearning for all afternoon begins to stir and gather momentum. You glance upwards and notice the leaves on your maple or poplar trees have turned into a mosaic…
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Extinct Mega Predators Haasts Eagle
Eagles are amongst the largest and most impressive of the birds seen in the sky today. They are perhaps not as large as the eagles depicted by Tolkein or in the adventures of Sinbad, but it is actually only in…
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Practical Ways to Protect Coral from Intrusion by Capital Interests
Protecting coral from capital interests means setting very strict rules about who may go out to the coral reefs. Making sure that these are only scientists and people with an interest in conservation and preservation of the coral also is…
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Producing Hydrochloric Acid Gas on a Laboratory Scale its use for Binding to Amines
February 11, 2014 Physical Science
Hydrochloric acid, or HCl in chemists shorthand, is commonly known as muriatic acid, which lends clues to its most ready method of production for the practicing lab-scale chemist. Muriatic is an old term, meaning concerning brine (sodium chloride). Muriatic acid…
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Where do Butterflies come from
Lepidoptera, the scientific name for the butterfly, are insects that live on every continent on earth except Antarctica. Although the female butterfly may lay up to 100 eggs during her life, only two percent usually survive long enough to reproduce….
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Post Surgery what you can do to help your Recovery
February 11, 2014 Medical Science
The best way to recover post-surgically is to begin planning your recovery prior to the surgical event. Think about the tasks you do daily basis. See what can be done before the start of your recovery. Can you pay bills…
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