Author Archives: Roger Gosden
Frozen Eggs Perks as Policy
Ashton Carter announced the Pentagon will make a bigger commitment to family-building for people serving in the military. The package includes new benefits for maternity leave and child care, and even a pilot scheme for egg and sperm freezing. The … Continue reading
Posted in Biomedical, Fertility
Tagged Frozen egg banking, IVF, vitrification
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No Sex Please, We’re Bananas
That’s a problem for our banana-munching republic. Sex was suspended for banana cultivation long ago, and the price we will pay is a Bananageddon. Here’s why. The plant is propagated vegetatively and cannot produce seeds because it is genetically triploid. … Continue reading
If Snow be Black
After last week’s monster storm that left Eastern USA snow white, the snowbanks slowly melted into pools and streams. But what if snow were black? The Bard liked nature the way he saw it, but he loved to mock our … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, nature
Tagged Candide, melting glacier, Shakespeare, snow
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Are Bats So Scary?
Some animals have few human friends, like bats. We had a little brown bat tucked inside folded wings, like dead leaves, hanging over a rocker in our porch. It was a welcome guest. But ask the public about the most … Continue reading
Posted in Animalia, Health
Tagged bats, chiroptophobia, Ebola virus, HIV-AIDS, mad cow disease, rabies, revenant, zoonosis
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Mastodon in Our Town
Not Mastodon the heavy metal band from Atlanta, but a heavy, leathery mastodon from Virginia. It is the first found east of the Blue Ridge. A local bricklayer was hunting on private land one day in 1983 when he found … Continue reading
Posted in Animalia, nature
Tagged College of William & Mary, elephant, extinction, fossil, George Cuvier, mammoth, Mammut americanum, mastodon
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Roger musing about Peace with Nature 