Just like you see on tv, it’s time for a cross-over event between Mad Scientist.Crazy Mom and Five Maples Farm. While reading about the llama stomach I realized just how neat chambered stomachs are and thought it would make a nice science topic for this blog. Llamas are members of the camelid family which also […]

Once again I am blogging my way from A to Z as part of the 2015 April A to Z Challenge!  Come blog through the alphabet with me! Move over summertime illnesses, there is a new virus in town.  This year, people in the northeast have a new tick-borne disease to worry about.  Declared worse […]

Once again I am blogging my way from A to Z as part of the 2015 April A to Z Challenge!  Come blog through the alphabet with me! Let’s agree to put aside the vaccine debate for a bit, at least for as long as it takes you to read this post.  Instead, I thought […]

Once again I am blogging my way from A to Z as part of the 2015 April A to Z Challenge!  Come blog through the alphabet with me! It’s time for me to do my yearly review of the Ig Nobel Awards, given to scientists to “honor achievements that first make people laugh, and then […]

I’ve seen the posts plastered across the internet on social media sites:  GMOs cause cancer, immune problems, allergies and infertility, among other things.  This fear-mongering reminds me of the vaccine and autism scare that led to the return of vaccine-preventable diseases. GMOs have the potential for a lot of good.  But people are scared of […]