Occasional essays on scientific topics that spark my curiosity.
August 2, 2021 — Magic: The Gathering (MTG) is a funny trading card game inspired by fantasy role-playing games. MTG emulates a combat between players' creatures, where not only their strength matters but also their abilities. Everything revolves around magic... [Read more]
February 10, 2019 — Domesticated animals present a series of changes in their morphology, physiology and behavior with respect to their wild variants. For example, in the case of the dog (as opposed to the wolf), some researchers have identified the existence of pedomorphosis... [Read more]
August 27, 2017 — On April 11, 1970, NASA launched the Apollo 13 manned spacecraft with the intention of landing for the third time on the Moon. Halfway, during the second day of travel, an oxygen tank of the spacecraft burst and destroyed a couple of modules... [Read more]
May 3, 2015 — In December 2003, the scientific journal Polar Biology (Springer) published an article entitled Pressures produced when penguins pooh—calculations on avian defaecation. Why Dr. Meyer-Rochow and Dr. Gál, the authors of this paper, decided to... [Read more]