Category: Mini Conjectures

In the 1936 general election of the USA it was Roosevelt vs Landon. With the USA climbing out of the great depression and the potential of the next world war on the horizon, it...

This is one of the first scientific drawings of human sperm made by Nicolaas Hartsoeker a student of Antonie van Leeuwenhoek the father of microscopy. When Nicolaas looked down the microscope at human sperm...

In 1847 Alfred Baring Garrod discovered high levels of uric acid in gout patients’ blood and he proposed that the uric acid was crystallizing in the joints of these patients causing pain. Awesome work...

Dinoturbation was partly responsible for the rise of flowering plants but what is dinoturbation and why should you care? Dinoturbation is the massive dinosaur induced destruction of the forests. Take the sauropod the Argentinosaurus...

This one is a crazy story. In the late 19th century an Egyptian farmer found a massive burial site of mummified cats. How massive? We are talking tonnes and tonnes of mummified cats. They...

Here is the experiment, monkeys were trained to retrieve a rock and give it to the experimenter and in return they would get a piece of cucumber. This became routine for the monkeys, it...

The Brazilian wandering spider is considered the most poisonous spider in the world. Six millionths of a gram (about 1/100 the weight of a human leg hair) is enough to kill a mouse (WHO...

The Colorado River Toad (Incilius alvarius) produces a milky toxin in glands on its shoulders and back which resemble the weapons that Blastoise has (how did Squirtle biologically evolve metal weapons anyway? Because I’m...