The Paleo Diet With the recent news of the teasingly near-resurrection of gastric-brooding frogs ( Rheobatrachus spp. ) almost 30 year...

Plant-based fossil of Cynepteris lasiophora I believed I heard all of those thought-experiment vegan questions.  You know the ones, ofte...

Happy Tomato Like many other rationally-minded vegans, I approve of GMOs.  After all, I have personally genetically engineered bacter...

I just found this unpublished post in my list.  I wrote it three years ago, but I hope it tides you over for my next post. Structure of a...

All Aboard! I am the kind of vegan who does not like to stick out and be outspoken, but blend in and win people over with a softer appro...

February is Black History month, and what better way to celebrate than to shoehorn my blog in there somehow.  While I was not able to find m...

The generation of induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells Just a quick post today:  You can now make/use vegan neurons and stem cells from...

A pig in a poke for only $42! I have a confession.  I am not a professional scientist at the moment.  I am, as they say, between jobs . ...

Some Kind of Milk is in There When one has a minority viewpoint, or is otherwise a rare fish in the mainstream, one will often hear cert...

*UPDATE* Added Laccaria bicolor thanks to Puget Sound Mycological Society . Recently I realized my earlier post on edible carnivorous fu...

Like any specialized topic, veganism has it's own jargon.  A tern I see gaining traction is 'plant-based,' as in a 'plant-...

After my last post got scooped , besides thanking my stars that I have civil readers, I decided to raise the bar with another facet of th...

I've been postponing a post on vat meat.  Seems like every month or so I see something on making meat in a lab .  These blurbs overflo...

I am a fan of molecular gastronomy, where cooks use scientific understanding and new technology to make better and more novel food.  In a m...

No, not a test to see if you have 3D herpes, or any other kind, but a test to study herpes simplex virus in vivo.  By the way, thanks to you...

Well, cannibal ish .  Like the vegetarian of cannibals, as opposed to the vegan of cannibals you thought you were.  Unless you ate anyone I ...

Not long ago, I was at a colleague's home, and she produced a bottle of spirit with buffalo grass in it.  I had never heard of this org...

I don't hide the fact that I'm a fan of molecular gastronomy.  I like experimentation, that's why I'm all sciency.  Plus I ...

I was driving the automobile yesterday, when I saw a distasteful (in my opinion) billboard . I mean look at that!  A vermin escaped fro...

With the drama unfolding at Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant (or 福島第一原子力発電所), the fear of radioactivity has ratcheted up many notches.  I...