Author Archives: Roger Gosden

About Roger Gosden

A British/ Canadian/ American scientist specializing in reproduction & embryology whose career spanned from Cambridge to Cornell's Weill Medical College in NYC. Married to Lucinda Veeck, the embryologist for the first successful IVF team in America. They retired to Virginia, where he became a master naturalist and writer affiliated with William & Mary. He also writes on Substack at What’s Hot in Fertility? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Gosden

Cardinal robes

Posted on February 28, 2013 by Roger Gosden

As winter marches towards spring, two male northern cardinals have set up territories in our yard, keeping an eye on their mates but not getting along with each other. They watch, emblazoned against a blue sky, from a favorite perch … Continue reading →

Posted in Animalia | Tagged birds, diet, fertility | 2 Comments

A Dog’s Dinner

Posted on February 20, 2013 by Roger Gosden

Banana Joe stole the show! No, not the LA radio presenter, I mean the affenpinscher from Attleboro who won Best in Show last week at the Westminster Dog Show in NYC. I’m not a pooch person, prefer big mushy dogs, … Continue reading →

Posted in Animalia | Tagged genetics, science, westminster dog show | 2 Comments

Winter bee-line

Posted on February 11, 2013 by Roger Gosden

T.S. Eliot was wrong: February is the cruelest month, not April. When one of our sister bee hives in the Yorktown churchyard was opened recently the entire colony was found to have died. Several thousand bees were strewn across the … Continue reading →