Even though I’ll blog after the end of “100 Days of Science,” I’m sweating this last push of my daily effort, wanting to make sure I tackle some of the most pressing science stories I haven’t blogged about yet. A case in point: White-nose syndrome in bats. The disease got a slow start in 2006, [...]
Out of the University of North Carolina at Wilmington — which happens to be my undergraduate alma mater — comes good news for coral reef restoration. Study authors Steven McMurray and Joseph Pawlik report that sponges knocked off their reefs by human activities or storms can actually be re-attached with excellent success. “The worldwide decline of coral [...]
I’ve never gotten a flu shot. And even if a pandemic loomed, I doubt I would. I’m not opposed to most vaccines, and certainly I support time-tested, life-saving childhood vaccination programs. But I think it’s a little strange how people can be heard polling each other in late fall, asking, “Have you gotten your flu shot?” [...]
Wow! Almost at the end of “100 Days of Science.” People keep asking what I’ll do at the end, and I still don’t know. I do know that I’ll take a two-week reprieve, at least from daily posting, while I go visit some family members. I also know that I have a very exciting announcement to [...]
A new study is sounding the loudest alarm yet about lead poisoning from venison. The study, issued this week in the journal PLoS ONE, analyzed 30 white-tailed deer carcasses hunted under normal conditions and found that all of them contained lead fragments, as did a variety of butchered products. And the tainted products raised lead [...]
