For years the husband has insisted that chocolate is a health food. He’s also spun me the line that eating it is good for the rainforest, as the mature cacao trees apparently grow in mature forest. So he’ll be happy with the Herald‘s story on his sweet treat, which has the enticing title of "Sweet news: […]
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are humans still evolving (a repeat visit)
What follows is a piece I wrote (quite a while ago now) for students planning on sitting Scholarship Biology. It was intended to start them thinking 🙂 I’ve just been asked to contribute to a panel discussion on RNZ around this subject, so thought it might be timely to re-post this article (I think time […]
Continue readinga cheer for saccharomyces cerevisiae
Here’s another of those catchy science-based ditties – & definitely one I’ll be adding to my collection for showing in class 🙂 (I would have embedded it, but MT is not doing what it should today…later edit: thank goodness for IT wizards!) And a happy St Patrick’s day!
Continue readingthe amazing hCG ‘diet’, redux
A while back, I wrote about the so-called hCG ‘diet’ drops: homeopathic drops that might just possibly (depending on dilution) contain a molecule of human chorionic gonadotropin (or maybe not), and which supposedly help one to lose weight. Ooops, nearly forgot to mention that you need to accompany your daily dose of magic water with […]
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