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This is just a trial entry. The goal would be for each student to write at least one blog post per week. Each will have their own login information s...

write weekly blog posts

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Man made Monsters?

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Man Made Monster???

The picture shows a chicken that has been genetically modified to have 4 Legs, 4 wings, bigger breast, with no feathers. Though KFC claims the pictu...

Mutated Daisies?

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Mutated Daisies

Deformed daisies have been found near a power plant that leaked radiation. Some believed this is what has caused the deformities. However,...

Mutated Daisies caused by radiation? or just something to blame?

After reading this article about the mutated daisies, the first thought that came to my mind was how as people we tend to blame disasters ...

Friend or Foe?

Sometimes our fears can drive us to destroy the "monsters" before we can even understand what they are or their intentions. Its good to know what som...

Chernobyl Birds' Defects Link Radiation, Not Stress, to Human Ailments

The study revealed that the birds suffered more birth defects, had shorter lifespans, and were half as successful breeding after the accident. In or...

What are monsters if not what we fear and don't understand?

We fear monsters, and so we study them. We want to know where they are. An exploration of how monsters are part of advancing biology. Monsters a...

Man Made Monsters

Man made animals can be a controversial subject. They are reproduced by humans instead of naturally in the wild. This causes the offspring to be infe...

Mutated Daisies

When an abnormal thing is found in nature, some people get scared because they have never seen it before. It doesn't really mean to much to me, be...

Fukushima Flowers

I believe that as humans we have a natural tendency to be afraid of things we don't know or understand. As a result of this predisposition, we search...

The Influence of Pop-Culture

One monster that I have been well informed about in the past, as I mentioned before, is the web-created entity "Slenderman". Slenderman was originally...

Did the radiation from the Fukushima power plant only cause daisy mutations?

In late May of this year a picture surfaced of daisies in Fukushima Japan. However, these weren't any ordinary daisies. Some believe the daisies w...

Rendered by Radiation

Last Wednesday [edit: during our first class], we touched upon the origins of Godzilla and had our Odyssey’s first glimpse into the realm of monst...

Zombies

Movies with a Bite World War Z (2008) This is a book made up of interviews with survivors of the zombie breakout, which had just ended. You...

The Physical Origins of Sasquatch

Next on our monstrous agenda are the notorious Bigfoot and Sasquatch legends. For a little forward onto our next discussion I found an article th...

The Giant Squid

The giant squid is a creature that I believe many people consider to be a living monster, when in reality I believe we only fear it because of how li...

Big Foot

Although there is no true, hard evidence that big foot exists, our culture still has created him into some great creature. There are movies and tv sh...