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Month: November 2009

Mouthless worm stranger than previously thought. Oh. OK.

13 November 2009 grant b 0

Wired has a lovely story about a charismatic creature that has no mouth, lives inside dead whale bones and is part of a very complicated family:

Since the discovery by Vrijenhoek and other

… Read the rest “Mouthless worm stranger than previously thought. Oh. OK.”

Look at you. Up close.

12 November 2009 grant b 1

Pharyngula passes on a very interesting offer:

I had my doubts about this; I got an offer from ASPEX corporation to let people get free scanning electron micrographs of just about anything.

… Read the rest “Look at you. Up close.”

Like a wolf on the fold. Like an ocean of choking sand.

11 November 2009 grant b 1

Discovery News has me imagining the text of a classified ad in the ARCHAEOLOGY – PRE-CHRISTIAN section…. Found: Persian army. Lots of mileage, but well-preserved:

Bronze

… Read the rest “Like a wolf on the fold. Like an ocean of choking sand.”

Ethiopia’s other coast.

10 November 2009 grant b 0

New Scientist is ready to weigh anchor in the Sahara, now that it looks like Ethiopia is getting its very own brand new ocean:

“The ferocity of what we saw during this episode stunned

… Read the rest “Ethiopia’s other coast.”

Another LHC baguatelle.

9 November 2009 grant b 1

Yeah, so the LHC really, really can’t catch a break. Not only are bizarre electrical failures, Al Qaeda operatives and time travelers out to get them – PopSci reveals that even… Read the rest “Another LHC baguatelle.”

Science Art: “Planetensystem”, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 1885.

8 November 2009 grant b 0



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This is the place where we live – our celestial family – as seen by the educated reader in the Age of Steam. (Then, as now, Pluto didn’t make the planetary… Read the rest “Science Art: “Planetensystem”, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 1885.”

Look up, TV people.

6 November 2009 grant b 0

New Scientist points out an unexpected sunny side of the recent switch to digital broadcasting: it’s suddenly a lot easier for radio telescopes to see the sky:

The window is giving

… Read the rest “Look up, TV people.”

Germ markets.

5 November 2009 grant b 0

Wall Street financiers have more in common with bacteria than you might expect (ahem), PhysOrg reports, based on a new study that shows how microbes manage their investments:

“We

… Read the rest “Germ markets.”

Scandal On The Beach! Extortion! Sex!

4 November 2009 grant b 0

New Scientist tells the SHOCKING UNTOLD STORY of the steamy, sordid sex lives of fiddler crabs:

Males have one giant claw, sometimes as heavy as the rest of their body, which they use in fights.

… Read the rest “Scandal On The Beach! Extortion! Sex!”

Science Machine!

4 November 2009 grant b 0

The Onion reveals where science comes from.

We *knew* it, didn’t we?

T. rex: Just a big puppy?

3 November 2009 grant b 0

The Telegraph reveals new fossil evidence that one of history’s scariest dinosaurs engaged in play-fights:

Geologist Dr Joe Peterson, of Northern Illinois University, said:

… Read the rest “T. rex: Just a big puppy?”

Junk food, junk mood.

2 November 2009 grant b 0

BBC reports on new data supporting a link between highly processed food and depression:

[The University College London team] split the participants into two types of diet – those

… Read the rest “Junk food, junk mood.”

Science Art: Nomenclature and Operation (Norden Bombsight, Mar 1945)

1 November 2009 grant b 0



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The Norden Bombsight, from the Bombardier’s Information File (BIF) describing the components and controls.

If you’ve read Slaughterhouse 5 or seen the… Read the rest “Science Art: Nomenclature and Operation (Norden Bombsight, Mar 1945)”

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