As someone who witnessed the glow of Internet dawn from its blood-red beginnings, I am continually fascinated by this giant web of information that has expanded to connect (in one way or another) all but a few minds on this planet. I love how it’s changing us. I love this bizarre feeling I get when I […]
The Bug Count was recently ported over from WordPress hosting to my own domain hosting here at the newly minted thebugcount.com. While the transition itself was fairly smooth, I neglected to consider that my HTML/CSS coding skills are about half as old as the internet itself and in dire need of rejuvenation. Bear with me […]
It’s been a while. Here are the coolest science things that happened in the last 7 months: November 12, 2014 / the Philae lander 10 years and 6.4 billion kilometres after it was first launched, the Rosetta spaceship reaches its hyperbolic trajectory with the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Rosetta then Russian-doll launches a smaller landing ship called the Philae lander […]
Estrogen imbues women with the ability to conceive and foster the spark of life, and the capacity to withstand the pain of childbirth. Does the pain protection offered by estrogen give all women a higher general threshold of pain? Estrogen is a actually a trio of hormones: estradiol, estriol, and estrone. They perform a variety of important functions for […]
WAIT. THERE. RIGHT THERE. Hold that face. That disgusted grimace has roots in ancient genetics. You just received a directive from your DNA. A roll of the dice I’m going to tell you a story about bad genes, but I need to give you a crash course in genetics first. Genetics, like dice, are governed by basic probability. You […]