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Almond Milk Or Cow's Milk?

As the State of California enters its fourth full year of a historic drought, residents are scrambling to conserve water. The Governor of California was forced to impose mandatory restrictions on water usage by nearly 25%. As residents and authorities track every possible way water is being spent, questions are being raised about some of the uses of water in the state. Where Does All That Water Go? Can you imagine life without water? We need water to drink. But we also need it for washing, cooking, making all the stuff we need from factories, and even to grow our food. Did you know that the...

Tim Mitchell: Chasing My Passion

A flicker of movement catches my eye at the base of a sun-bleached, fallen cedar tree. As the hot Florida sun beats down on my back, I slip in closer and spot my quarry, hiding against the trunk. It relies on its excellent camouflage to hide, but I know right where it is. I carefully position myself, launch my attack, and successfully make the capture! However, my hunting expedition isn’t a traditional one. My quarry is the brown anole lizard. My weapon is an old fishing pole converted into a noose that allows me to harmlessly capture the lizards. And my trophy? Data, and lots of it! This...

Learning About Life Around Us

Today, our planet is home to an absolutely amazing diversity of life. There are giant sequoia trees that tower above most buildings. On the other end of the spectrum, there are trillions of tiny, microscopic, single-celled organisms living inside your body right now. There are many different ways organisms get their energy, many different ways organisms reproduce, and many different environments organisms call home. And what’s truly remarkable about all this diversity? It has a common origin. All life on earth is related to each other. Life began once, about 3.8 billion years ago, and it has...

Lizard Lab: How We Learn About The World

I work with a team of biologists, and we spend hour after hour, day after day, in the hot and muggy Florida sun, relentlessly hunting down lizards. And why do we do this? We are collecting data to advance our understanding of how the environment influences the lizard populations, which teaches us things about ecology and evolution. In general, our research starts with a series of very small, man-made islands along a river in Florida. They are small enough that we can capture all the lizards on the island, which means we can track their survival through time, and figure out how many offspring...

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