Tavishi On February 14th in the middle ages, children with epilepsy were given keys. Valentine's Day didn't start off as a holiday of...

Tavishi RNA, or ribonucleic acid, is a single-stranded nucleic acid composed of nucleotides. Each RNA nucleotide contains a sugar...

Tavishi When I first started liking biology, I enjoyed it in the realm of understanding things. Not knowing the answer to something made...

Tavishi I don't usually write astronomy posts. My specialty is biology, and I don't know too much about astronomy. But I do know a little...

Tavishi It is once again that time of year in which I am reminded that sonnets are a thing by one of my teachers, and yet again, I take...

Tavishi This is Vincent, a harbor seal ( Phoca vitulina ) pup admitted to the Marine Mammal Center in March 2023 for leptospirosis and...

Tavishi Rome is known for many things: the Colosseum, Catholics, Capitoline Hill, Caesar, and pizza. The most culturally significant of...

Tavishi In the past few years, the internet has experienced a surge in "crunchy" food influencers, who label any difficult to pronounce...

Tavishi A crucial part of medicine is treatment. A great deal of my Kradigan posts deal with illness, but rarely delve further into the...

Tavishi Most good things start with the letter C: capers, cheese, cyan, cornichons, crepes, chutney, and other edible things. On the...

Tavishi Contrary to what Big Playing Cards may claim, ACE inhibitors are NOT an anti-ace card group who are certainly NOT distributing...

Tavishi During the 19th century, the Hawaiian monk seal was hunted to near extinction, just as most pinnipeds in the time. As a whole,...

Tavishi I've recently been getting more and more into neurology and sensation, and something that has particularly interested me is...

Tavishi The weddell seal, or Leptonychotes weddellii , is one of my favorite pinniped species. I routinely follow the work of the Montana...

Tavishi Contrary to popular belief, just because something is flat, doesn't mean you can put Canada liquid (maple syrup) on it and eat...

Tavishi One of the chief concerns among elephant seals presenting at the Marine Mammal Center is a nematode (roundworm) parasite known as...

Tavishi I am a firm believer in humor as a tool of education. When I'm trying to memorize, rather than mnemonics, I turn to puns. And...

Tavishi Walruses, or Odobenus rosmarus , are famously the only extant (not extinct) individuals belonging to the group odobenidae....

Tavishi I generally really enjoy calculus and the more fun bits of math, but when calculus meets biology, I've met the sweet spot- ie,...

Tavishi The lodobontine seals are a group of four Antarctic phocids (true seals): the Weddell seal, the leopard seal, the Ross seal, and...