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Masha, a gray cat, laying on a pile of blankets and yawning.
March 21, 2024 by dan in Blogs

A brief introduction to a cat

The joy and the benefit of reader-supported publications like Sequencer is the relationship that readers and writers develop together. We are all characters in each others' lives. My therapist is known by his first name among my friends because I bring him up so often. Writers and artists I&...

A view of a Swiss mountain meadow, with a rock outcropping visible in the middle and small yellow flowers around the edges.
March 19, 2024 by dan in News

Alpine flower resolves sexual conflict through spacetime manipulation

You are a pretty little flower. You are Pulsatilla alpina, the alpine pasqueflower. You are have both male and female sexual machinery. This raises a conflict within you. All species that sexually reproduce have "sexual conflict," where sex-specific traits have different evolutionary arcs or are just straight-up in...

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