Mosquito and the diseases they carry: When you travel to places where you are likely to encounter mosquito-borne infectious diseases, preparation and precautions are essential in preventing mosquito bites or illness. Malaria Malaria requires advanced preparation to prevent infection. Female…
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Malaria has been infecting people long before there were people to be infected, and so has the genus Anopheles, A.K.A. mosquito, the only insect that is capable of harboring the malarial parasites that are capable of infecting humans. Malaria has…
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January 30, 2015 Earth Science
Seashells, they are beautiful, durable and found in waters around the world. Everybody loves seashells. Some beautiful ones can be found washed up along the islands that separate the Atlantic ocean from the Caribbean Sea. You can find a lot…
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January 30, 2015 Social Science
Myth, legends and folklore all have stories about strange and mysteries happenings that occur around the time of the full moon. The common tale is of course the curse of the werewolf. A legend most do not believe, but love…
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January 30, 2015 Social Science
Grounded theory belongs to the family of qualitative research, which is based on subjective, textual data as opposed to quantitative data. It is one of four primary qualitative approaches – the others being phenomenology, field research and ethnography. This approach…
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January 30, 2015 Social Science
Grounded Theory is a research methodology used in social sciences in which a theory is developed from the analysis of data. It was discovered by Glaser and Strauss in 1967. Grounded Theory is used to develop concepts about social patterns and…
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Plants are amazing organisms and plant growth is varied with many different forms and adaptations to different environmental niches. However, whatever adaptations a plant has made to cope with heat, drought, water, ice, poor soils or contamination, there are certain…
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Oleander, frangipani, Hoodia those weird potted plants on the “Enterprise” in “Star Trek: The Next Generation” (Pachypodium), all belong to the family Apocynaceae, also known as the dogbane family and the periwinkle family. The family Ascelpiadaceae (milkweed family) has now…
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January 30, 2015 Social Science
The recent shootings in a movie theatre in Aurora, Colarado, which killed 12 people and wounded another 59, has shocked the world. Fortunately, mass killings like this are not common occurrences. That does, however, mean that there is little known…
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January 30, 2015 Physical Science
Everyone likes a winner, particularly when the winner is paying. The stakes with exoplanets that resemble Earth mean that there could be hope of an oasis Earth that offers potential, however small, for post-terrestrial migration. The Biosphere 2 project in…
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