06/23/2004
Dr. Bortrum
Forgiving Fugu
The fugu blowfish, a prized delicacy, doesn''t have to be poisonous - it''s all in its diet.
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06/16/2004
Dr. Bortrum
Versatile Barbers and One Smart Dog
Josef Fischer on Barber Surgeons; Julia Fischer and Rico''s 200-word vocabulary
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06/09/2004
Dr. Bortrum
Decorating and Dancing Dude
The female bowerbird''s preference changes on aging.
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06/02/2004
Dr. Bortrum
Tupperware, Earthshine and Leonardo
Leonardo da Vinci's ventures into plastics and explaining a lit up moon
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05/26/2004
Dr. Bortrum
Beads and Burning
Discoveries of early uses of fire and adornment tell us about our ancestors
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05/19/2004
Dr. Bortrum
No Little Green Men
Graduate students and spinning stars; 950th anniversary of the Crab Nebula
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05/12/2004
Dr. Bortrum
The Nonchestnut and Other Woody Stuff
The spreading buckeye and it takes a bow to play a fiddle
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05/05/2004
Dr. Bortrum
One Big Tree
Fighting the blight that killed billions of huge American chestnut trees
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04/28/2004
Dr. Bortrum
Baseball and Birds
Return of the whooping crane and of memories spurred by Ralph Kiner''s book
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04/21/2004
Dr. Bortrum
Why the Big Head?
CT scanning a whale's head; a powerful click
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04/14/2004
Dr. Bortrum
Sopranos Singing Softly
Yeast cells "sing" two octaves above middle C
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04/07/2004
Dr. Bortrum
Great and Not So Great
A very brief musical review by an unqualified critic
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03/31/2004
Dr. Bortrum
Extremes
Musings on the extremes of Marco, Mercury and Sedna
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03/24/2004
Dr. Bortrum
Tiny Bubbles Revisited
New work on claimed nuclear fusion in collapsing bubbles
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03/17/2004
Dr. Bortrum
Dilemmas
Morality and fairness - are they wired into our brains?
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