VIRUS (Latin) – POISON
‘Virus’ is one of the most negative words. When we hear it we think about a computer virus or an agent causing a disease. AIDS and HIV, hepatitis and HBV,HCV,HDV,etc.… Read the rest
VIRUS (Latin) – POISON
‘Virus’ is one of the most negative words. When we hear it we think about a computer virus or an agent causing a disease. AIDS and HIV, hepatitis and HBV,HCV,HDV,etc.… Read the rest
Ever hungry Hyde Park squirrel as a metaphor of the consumerist culture
Think about what really makes us different from animals? Is it our ability to empathize and be altruistic sometimes? But then altruism is regularly found in animals, especially social species, and is assumed to serve as an adaptation mechanism to preserve the community or ecosystem.… Read the rest
A coral reef, Papua New Guinea (photo by Brocken Inaglory, via Wikimedia Commons)
We often hear about the climate change and the never-ending discussion of it keeps making headlines in the media. There seem to be a consensus amongst climatologists – average atmospheric temperatures have been rising in the past several decades and the Arctic ice cap reducing.… Read the rest
Colourful section of a brain. Someone was definitely bright 🙂 (By Wei-Chung Allen Lee, Hayden Huang, Guoping Feng, Joshua R. Sanes, Emery N. Brown, Peter T. So, Elly Nedivi [CC-BY-2.5 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5)], via Wikimedia Commons)
A curious study has just been published describing research on cellular proteins involved in sustaining brain memory.… Read the rest
Sometimes life becomes too much to take and the mind and feelings need unclogging. When this happens I turn to nature to find solace and energy to renew myself. My job has moved from London to Oxford recently, so I finally had an opportunity to visit Oxford University Botanical Garden.… Read the rest
On the left: Pinax of Persephone opening the “Liknon Mystikon”.
Found in the holy shrine of Persephone at Locri in the district Mannella.
Locri was part of Magna Graecia and is situated on the coast
of the Ionian Sea in Calabria in Italy.