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Anthropocene Revoked: The proposal to formalize a new epoch was just rejected — what now?

“…Shovel them under and let me work. Two years, ten years, and passengers ask the conductor:

Bayleigh Murray

Mar 28

Ode to Photosynthesis

Walking through the Nina Mason Pulliman EcoLab and contemplating photosynthesis, genes, and our connection to it all.

Bayleigh Murray

Feb 13

The Osage Orange Keeps the Time — a walk through Indiana

Last fall, I took a walk through Southwestway Park, a mid-sized natural space flanking the White River in Indiana. The abnormally short…

Bayleigh Murray

Oct 29, 2023

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May 15, 2018

On Phages — A War of Worlds

In the War of The Worlds, the breathtaking science fiction novel first released in the late 1800s, martians…

Bayleigh Murray

Apr 16, 2017

Microbe Profiles: Deinococcus radiodurans

Read all about Conan the Radiation Loving Bacterium

Bayleigh Murray

Aug 12, 2019

How Lichen Thrived After an Asteroid Killed the Dinosaurs

“…The earth, that is sufficient, I do not…

Bayleigh Murray

Jan 1, 2019

Dinoflagellates: Blooms, Bleaching, and Bioluminescence

A story about whirling flagella, sick corals…

Microbe Profiles: Rotifers

Animals live in the tundra, the forests, and in drops of water

Here’s why scientific studies seem to change every week

Why science is so wishy-washy

Bayleigh Murray

Jun 27, 2019

The Plight of the Plankton: Climate Change Forces Species to Move North

“By experience we find out a…