healthy intestine
Health

The brilliant world of the intestine or how to be happy

This post was inspired by the book Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Under-Rated Organ by Giulia Enders. The gut is a diverse world of many species and strains of bacteria. Many haven’t been identified yet due to our limitations with their cultivation. That’s one of the best things about science – it’s …

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DIY cotton pads
Art & DIY Lifestyle

DIY cotton pads

Take a piece of fabric, best if it’s 100 % cotton, no elasthane or other materials. Just recycle a shirt or maybe bedsheets that you’ve worn out and don’t intend to use for what it’s originally meant for anymore. Cut out the shape you want, mine are circle, but you can go out of the …

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Dolphin behaviour
Biology

Dolphin behaviour

To research dolphin behaviour we first have to ask the question: what is the problem the behavior has evolved to solve? The following is a list of some of the main problems: foraging: how to find, select, and process prey; predator avoidance or defense: the flip side of foraging from the prey’s point of view; …

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Part-time blogger
Lifestyle

An “average” day of a part-time blogger

On a work day. I have to start by explaining that my days aren’t filled with all-things-blogging related and why. We’re (my husband and I) currently renovating a house we bought a good year ago and are hurrying to move in as soon as possible. So most of my free time is dedicated to the …

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Mesmerizing Iceland
Biology Lifestyle

9 days in Iceland

Iceland is mesmerizing, for the eye and for the mind. I will let the photos do most of the talking and just add some captions as we go through the days. Things we did (2 months) before the trip: planned the whole route according to all the sites we wanted to see, made accommodation reservations …

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Photo identification in marine biology
Biology

Photo identification in marine biology

Definition in marine biology: the method of study of marine mammals using photographs to identify individuals. We will particularly concentrate on dolphins and how we rely on the presence of unique natural features, specifically on the dorsal fin (the size and location of notches and cuts), to identify individual animals. Natural markings data can be …

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