Subject: Biology

• Your Little Round Belly (Bacteria edition)

  Stumbling out of a holiday food haze? Feeling fat? Wondering what separates you and your good intentions about your waistline from those who seem perpetually and effortlessly svelte? Well, maybe-- just maybe-- it's less your inability to resist Christmas cookies and your little used gym membership than the bacteria packed into your gut. The Associated Press reports: According to two studies being published in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature, both obese mice and people had more of one

  December 26, 2006

• Beirut In-store at Amoeba Tonight (Free)

  Much-hyped Euro-folk reviver Beirut plays a free show tonight at the Hollywood Amoeba Records at 6:30 p.m. He'll be supporting his new album The Flying Club Cup (Ba Da Bing), which OC Weekly reviewed here. Amoeba is located at 6400 Sunset Blvd. (323-245-6400). In the meantime, enjoy this video of Beirut's "Elephant Gun."

  October 12, 2007

• Because You're Ugly: Knitting in Biology 101

  Okay, so I admit I never did get to dissect a lab rat or frog for high school biology—though, I did have my go at a formaldehyde-soaked mink and fetal pig, which wasn't nearly as disgusting as I thought it'd be—and I never did opt for the conscientious alternate assignment to write a 50-page research paper on the classification of insects instead. But Etsy seller CraftyHedgehog is giving you another chance to explore the twisty innards of a rat—ethically. The Knitting in Biology Lab Rat

  October 6, 2008

• Hellooooooo, Mr. Wilson!

  February 7, 2002

• Channeling Social D

  April 8, 2004

• Martin Millard Not Just a Racialist, But a Homophobe

  The man who fancies himself the savior of Costa Mesa had this concluding couplet in his rambling reasoning to support Proposition 8: "On the other hand, it could be argued that if it is true that, as many gays now assert, homosexuality is genetic, then allowing gay marriage (and the normalization of homosexuality in society) will tend to have the effect of keeping gays from faking being straight and marrying people of the opposite sex and reproducing. Then, since they aren't reproducing the "ga

  October 28, 2008

• Marine Wildlife Cruises

  April 2, 2009

• UC Irvine Eggheads on the March

  Twenty UC Irvine science and engineering researchers were named last week as Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, representing the largest class this year of any American university or institution. Eighty-five current and former UCI faculty members have previously earned the honor from AAAS, the world's largest general scientific society. The 2008 UCI AAAS fellows are:* Pierre Baldi, Chancellor's Professor and Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics director* Jam

  December 22, 2008

• The Science of Hockey

  April 2, 2009

• Obama's Expected Lift on Stem-Cell Ban Cheered at UCI

  President Barack Obama is expected to sign an executive order on Monday rolling back restrictions on federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research, fulfilling a campaign promise and repealing one of the most bone-headed stances taken by his predecessor, George W. Bush.News of Obama's expected order, which is tentatively scheduled to be signed at 11 a.m. Monday at the White House, is quite welcomed at UC Irvine, which is one of the foremost medical and scientific research institutions in

  March 6, 2009

• Junior Oceanographer

  Ocean Institute

  April 9, 2009

• Fitness Hike

  February 19, 2009

• This Valentine's Weekend May Be Your Best Chance to Eat Oysters for Years to Come

  February 12, 2009

• Meditation Workshop

  January 8, 2009

• Native Plant Hike

  December 11, 2008

• Intermediate Mountain Bike Ride

  December 4, 2008

• Tall Tail

  August 21, 2008

• Raptor Attention

  August 14, 2008

• Hot Quirky Freaks

  May 22, 2008

• Monster In a Box

  September 2, 1999

• Fossil Fuel

  April 17, 2008

• Royalty Pains and Net Prophets

  As online radio faces possible financial doom, Pandora thinks outside the box

  June 21, 2007

• Rats and Rat Shit Everywhere

  September 19, 2002

• Brutal Honesty

  Sea Squirt Winter Camp at Aquarium of the Pacific

  December 21, 2006

• A River Runs Through Us

  November 23, 2006

• Real Gene-ius

  August 17, 2006

• Aural Reports

  January 26, 2006

• Environment and Sports

  January 12, 2006

• Monkey Love

  December 15, 2005

• The Fertile Sea

  This years red tide is killing the fishing season, but surfers are stoked

  July 21, 2005

• Dial M for Mold!

  June 16, 2005

• Death Row Defender

  October 14, 2004

• Snorting Coke Off a Hanson Kids Butt Cheek

  August 19, 2004

• Cue Banjos

  February 5, 2004

• Fish-Free Sea

  November 27, 2003

• Design Matters

  August 29, 2002

• Not So Natural Selection

  March 28, 2002

• A Nation of Consumers

  August 2, 2001

• Bring on the End Times

  January 25, 2001

• You Say You Want an Evolution

  January 18, 2001

• Total Rehash

  November 23, 2000

• Sex Kills

  January 27, 2000

• Covert Campaigner

  November 26, 1998

• Fitness Hike

  May 14, 2009

• Ex-I-09

  May 28, 2009

• Edible and Useful Plant Hike

  July 30, 2009

• Jurassic Park

  August 13, 2009

• Fidotrust Fest 2009

  August 20, 2009

• There May Be a Bad-Driver Gene, UCI Scientists Find

  Frederik Vandaele / Flickr / Creative Commons​Some people suck at driving. If you do not suck at driving, you probably dislike these people.  But now you're not allowed to, according to UC Irvine scientists: After all, you can't hate someone for what they're born with.Science Daily reports that UCI's Dr. Steven Cramer recently published a study in the journal Cerebral Cortex, showing that poor driving skills may be tied to a gene variant that affects memory. How'd he figure it out? By put

  October 28, 2009

• Finky Gets to the Bottom of the Stinky in Mission Viejo

  ​"I can't believe there hasn't been any stories in regards to the foul odor that is covering Mission Viejo, CA like an airborne bacteria," writes a reader named Cori. "(Well . . . actually, in this Prozac laden city of Stepford, I'm surprised when anyone notices anything outside the 'norm.') The only information I've found about it is from a local blogger."The local blogger would be Finky the Kid, who writes (the bold emphasis being his): "Mission Viejo, CA stinks. I mean, it reeks to high hea

  November 2, 2009