Chapter 1: The anarchy of sex

Enter the platypus. This egg-laying mammal from Australia specializes in being contrary, and its sex chromosomes are no different. Lucy Cooke, Bitch While discussing the infinite complexity and variation of what sex is and how it’s determined, Lucy Cooke touches on the research of Jennifer Graves. While most known for her work with the SRY […]

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Today I Learned – Excel

I love to play around in with large data sets in Microsoft excel, but I brute force things a bit. TURNS OUT THERES A FIND AND REPLACE TOOL AT THE TOP OF THE PAGE That’s in all caps so I don’t forget. Also you can reference cells on a separate sheet with sheetname!A1 To see

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Today I Learned — The pig war

Sometimes history is just incredibly stupid, and sometimes you learn that a war almost started right in your backyard. That is the story of the pig war. In the 1840s the border between the US and British Canada was ambiguous in the pacific north west. “along the forty-ninth parallel of north latitude to the middle

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