“Quantification of Fossil Data” and an update on the fossil identification app ABSTRACT: It has been over 75 years, since Charles Butts published his famous and classic monograph on the fossils of the Appalachian mountains in 1941. Recently, I have been in the process of updating the taxonomy of his work and I am in […]

"Discrepancies in the Measured Expansion Rate of the Universe" Abstract: The most basic parameter in our description of the expanding Universe is the current expansion rate, given by the Hubble Constant. A mere two decades ago, the value of that constant was uncertain to a factor of two. Since then, the face of cosmology has […]

"CRISPR" "New Advances in Genetic Engineering: The Nuts, The Bolts, Frankenstein Monsters?, and Ethics"   In the last 150 years we’ve had an amazing advancement in our understanding of the genetic code that programs life. While some technologies for manipulating genes have developed in the last few decades, new programmable systems have been discovered in […]