03Mar

Mass Extinctions: Disasters or Opportunities?

It’s probably not comforting for a species close to its expiration date that its elimination is actually a prime chance to extend the...

Plastic Surgery
03Mar

Plastic Surgery

You don’t like your nose? Cut it off, we´ll stick on a new one. Don’t like your lips? We´ll fill them up! When you´re thinking about...

A Climate for Disasters
03Mar

A Climate for Disasters

Movies like “2012”, “The Day After Tomorrow” and “Contagion” are familiar to most people in the context of being “disaster movies”....

To vaccinate or not to vaccinate?
03Mar

To vaccinate or not to vaccinate?

On the the anti-vaccination movement.  Remember the good old times when everybody used to vaccinate their kids and you rarely ever heard...

Africanized bees – Are they out to get us?
03Mar

Africanized bees – Are they out to get us?

 One attack and you might be dead. A venom no deadlier than that of a normal honey bee, but this bee stings up to 10 times more, which...