I love the fall. It’s my favorite season. I love sweatshirts and campfires. I love having the windows open. I love breathing cold, crisp air again after practically drowning in humidity with every breath in the summer. I love the feeling of change. And the leaves are nice, too. Apparently, some of you think the […]
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Article #18: Carbon Dating: A Window Into the Past
Someone asked me a question about carbon dating, and since most of us have probably come across the term at some point and since the idea of carbon dating has fascinated me from the first time I read about it when I was a kid, it seems like a dandy topic for an article. So, […]
Article #17: The Beauty of DNA and my Brush with Greatness
In our last article, we left off with the race to understand the molecular basis of heredity. Protein molecules were thought to be complex enough to encode genetic information, but no one could quite figure out how that information could be copied and passed on from cell to cell. DNA was a big enough molecule, […]
Article #16: DNA, The Recipe for Life
Well, the story of water is over, for now. Water will come up again, over and over, as we get into other topics, because—well, like you should know by now, water is really important in a lot of different ways. But for now, we’ll start looking into some other stuff. Let’s talk about DNA. DNA […]