by Len Fisher | 4 Apr 2015 | Mini Stories from Science
Just a day after I wrote the last post, an article “Here be dragons” appeared in Nature online (http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v520/n7545/full/520042a.html). The theme: That dragons are merely asleep, and are likely to be reawakened by climate change, and the...
by Len Fisher | 31 Mar 2015 | Mini Stories from Science
Meddle not in the affairs of dragons For you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup. That advice from an anonymous author sounds pretty good to me. Yet many scientists have meddled in the affairs of dragons. Which is odd, considering that they don’t exist (dragons,...