Damn, Nature, You Scary: Phorid Flies

Flies are, most people would agree, pretty disgusting. They drink their own spit. They feed on dung, they feed on rotting animals. Some fly species don’t even wait until the animal is dead, preferring to suck blood from living mammals, … Continue reading Damn, Nature, You Scary: Phorid Flies

protein, n. : from πρωτεῖος (prōteîos), ‘primary’, or ‘of the first rank’

In the early days of biochemistry, the old scientific craving to simplify, to unify, to jam every part of the universe into the same neat model, was still alive and kicking. Aristotle had his Four Elements; Hippocrates his humours; countless … Continue reading protein, n. : from πρωτεῖος (prōteîos), ‘primary’, or ‘of the first rank’