Dr. Elizabeth Mitchell Articles

• Number Crunching

  June 11, 2011 from News to Know

  Smile, crunch the numbers, and make something out of nothing.

• The Martian Runt

  June 11, 2011 from News to Know

  Mars is a runt because it formed quickly and was lucky enough to stay out of the way of on-coming traffic. So goes the latest step in the planetary shuffle.

• Stem Cell Surprises

  June 4, 2011 from News to Know

  Induced pluripotent stem cells: is the glass half-full or half-empty?

• Mystery of the Missing Mass

  June 4, 2011 from News to Know

  Some of our mass is missing. Or not.

• SFGate: “Oakland school's lessons in gender diversity”

  June 4, 2011 from News to Know

  Transgender clownfish, transgender people—what’s the difference?

• Mouse Genome Project

  June 4, 2011 from News to Know

  Making mice more useful with the Mouse Genome Project

• Good Gossip?

  June 4, 2011 from News to Know

  Good gossip?!

• Feedback Article

  “The Search for the Historical Adam” and Population Genomics

  June 3, 2011 from Feedback

  The June 2011 issue of Christianity Today spends a lot of ink searching for the historical Adam or explaining why we shouldn’t expect there to be one.

• Flies with Lice

  May 28, 2011 from News to Know

  Nomadic lice hitching a ride on flies direct the course of evolution. Hmmm.

• The Sponge’s Squeeze

  May 28, 2011 from News to Know

  The secret of the sponge’s squeeze . . . revealed at last.

• Survival of the Sniffer

  May 28, 2011 from News to Know

  Mammals grew bigger brains “the better to smell you, my dear!”

• Darwin on the Road

  May 28, 2011 from News to Know

  A team of evolutionary scientists accepted the Great Commission for their Cause by going on the road to preach to the “yokels and morons” in America’s heartland.

• Tropical Huntsman

  May 28, 2011 from News to Know

  Tropical Huntsman spider trapped in Baltic amber for millions of years?

• Darwin’s Disease

  May 21, 2011 from News to Know

  “Every generation thinks they have the answers to life’s great questions . . .”

• Super-Plants

  May 21, 2011 from News to Know

  Plants capture a little of the sun’s abundant energy and make it available for us. What if we could help them to do it better?

• The Gene that Folds the Brain

  May 21, 2011 from News to Know

  The gene LAMC-3 is essential to the formation of convolutions in the human brain, but how it “evolved to gain [these] novel functions” remains a mystery.

• Snails Go On the Offensive

  May 21, 2011 from News to Know

  The venom gland in a poisonous mollusk sheds light on the origin of defense/attack structures.

• Neanderthal Neighbors

  May 21, 2011 from News to Know

  So, were Neanderthals and “modern humans” neighbors in Russia or not?

• Feedback Article

  Were the Plagues on Pharaoh Because of Abram and Sarai Unfair?

  May 20, 2011 from Feedback

  Why did God punish Pharaoh because of Abraham's deception? Is this not unjust? Elizabeth Mitchell, MD, explains the reasons for the plagues.

• In-Depth Article

  Vestigial Hiccups, Folding Fish-eyes, and Other Fables: Our Fishy Forebears . . . Again!

  May 18, 2011 from Answers in Depth

  Time-lapse photos of a human embryonic face taking shape—unlike Haeckel’s fraudulent woodcuts—are authentic. But not even those assembled photos can peer back through time to prove evolution.

• Nutcracker Man

  May 14, 2011 from News to Know

  “Nutcracker Man” was neither man nor nutcracker.

• Toxin Lovers

  May 14, 2011 from News to Know

  Carboxydotrophs—microbes that derive their energy from carbon monoxide or carbon dioxide—are said to be a clue to the earth’s early atmosphere.

• Cosmic Curveballs

  May 14, 2011 from News to Know

  Searching for dark matter, the antiuniverse, and our cosmic roots

• Unisexual Lizards

  May 14, 2011 from News to Know

  Unisexual lizard species: evolutionary dead-end or created reproductive strategy?

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