Scrub Jays—The Ultimate Bird Brain
That pint of chocolate ice cream at the store was calling your name. So you take it home, and when no one is looking, you bury it in the freezer under the bags of peas…
Reflections on the Flat-Earth Movement
How Do We Know What We Know? Flat-earthers raise an excellent epistemological question: how do we know what shape is the earth? For three decades, I asked this very question of students in the first…
Giraffes: Towering Testimonies to God’s Design
Life as a Giraffe Towering tall over the African savanna, the giraffe looks as if it belongs in the circus. It strolls on stilt-like legs, and its neck parades high in the sky. But the…
“Brainless Fungi” Extraordinarily Complex
Plants and fungi trade resources in a mutually beneficial relationship. This is known as symbiosis. And it’s a complicated exchange, as this summary of a new study explains in New Scientist: But it turns out…
The Genesis of the “Brain-Eating” Amoeba
At a Glance Naegleria fowleri (Fig. 12) is a free-living microscopic ameba and causes a rare and devastating infection of the brain called primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM). (It is also known as Naegleriasis.) This ameba…