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Riled Up is a journal of science, the environment, exploration, new technology, and related commentary.  Contributors include scientists, explorers, engineers, and others who provide perspectives and context not typically offered in general news circulation.  For interested readers, additional resources are included.

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Bio-mimics

Biomimicry is typically defined as designers gaining creative ideas from the results expressed by natural selection. Think Leonardo de Vinci trying to create an early airplane by watching winged birds in flight or improved adhesives created by examining the microscopic overlapping scales on the foot pads of wall climbing geckos. Who would have thought that mollusks could use changeable skin color camouflage to mimic their aquatic environment for protection. Research at Woods Hole ...
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Biogeography as CSI 'tool kit'

Biogeography is the foundation of modern evolutionary science. When Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace conducted their original 19th Century investigations of plant and animal diversity-- becoming the basis of evolution  --they were actually studying the influence of biogeography on the occurrence and distribution of every living thing on Earth. Students learn this starting in high school biology class and the same principals follow into any advanced university research in the biological ...
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