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Month: April 2010

Washing away.

30 April 2010 grant b 0

Slate (yeah, not the first place I look for science news, but hey) unearths the sad truth about beaches that aren’t going to be beaches much longer:

[Jim] Titus, the Environmental

… Read the rest “Washing away.”

Fast glider goes… ooops.

29 April 2010 grant b 0

So, you’d think this’d be bigger news, but I heard about it on the Geeky Gadgets blog. (That’s its actual name.) DARPA, the military research organization lost one of… Read the rest “Fast glider goes… ooops.”

Science Art: Florida Everglades, Landsat satellite, 2000

25 April 2010 grant b 0



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This is the Florida Everglades, the widest, slowest river in the world. Anything that grows in South Florida does so because of fresh water from here – from cypress… Read the rest “Science Art: Florida Everglades, Landsat satellite, 2000”

Go figure.

24 April 2010 grant b 0

Fittingly enough, I posted that put-sugar-in-my-Coke song on the anniversary of New Coke’s introduction.

Funny.

SONG: Mexican Coke.

23 April 2010 grant b 0

SONG: “Mexican Coke” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)

ARTIST: grant.

SOURCE: “A sweet problem: Princeton researchers find that … Read the rest “SONG: Mexican Coke.”

…but the kind with a club that belongs to him.

22 April 2010 grant b 0

New Scientist reopens that old, old scandal between we modern humans and our sexy, sexy Neanderthal cousins:

Instead, a team led by Jeffrey Long, at the University of New Mexico, found evidence

… Read the rest “…but the kind with a club that belongs to him.”

Science Art: Huge Solar Prominence Eruption, NASA STEREO

21 April 2010 grant b 0

What, you think that Christmas cracker in Iceland was something? This was last week’s real eruption:

This prominence is 500,000 miles long. That’s a stream of plasma 62 and… Read the rest “Science Art: Huge Solar Prominence Eruption, NASA STEREO”

Turn on.

20 April 2010 grant b 0

New York Times has yet another report on new breakthroughs in using psychedelic drugs to heal:

“All of a sudden, everything familiar started evaporating,” he recalled. “Imagine you fall

… Read the rest “Turn on.”

What was I saying about whales?

19 April 2010 grant b 0

BBC reports they’re delicious! And oh yeah, you may already have tasted them:

A genetic analysis of meat found in Los Angeles showed that it was identical to meat from a sei whale being

… Read the rest “What was I saying about whales?”

Science Art: Le Physale Cylindrique, Histoire naturelle de Lacépède, 1876.

18 April 2010 grant b 0



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Another gorgeous old book illustration from Old Book Illustrations, this one from a Belgian natural history text. It’s a beached sperm whale, Physalus cylindricus… Read the rest “Science Art: Le Physale Cylindrique, Histoire naturelle de Lacépède, 1876.”

Making pavement pay.

16 April 2010 grant b 0

Covered this as a concept before here, but PhysOrg is reporting that a town in France is making step-powered pavement a reality:

Authorities in Toulouse in the south-west of France are considering

… Read the rest “Making pavement pay.”

Obama brings back Orion capsule.

15 April 2010 grant b 0

Discovery News makes me curious, again, about the future of American space travel:

President Obama is reviving the capsule component of the scuttled Constellation program and setting

… Read the rest “Obama brings back Orion capsule.”

An older testament.

13 April 2010 grant b 0

The Vancouver Sun unearths the story of a possible Assyrian source for the Hebrew covenant:

The tablet, dating to about 670 BC, is a treaty between the powerful Assyrian king and his weaker

… Read the rest “An older testament.”

Sushi superpowers.

12 April 2010 grant b 0

New Scientist hypes a pretty cool discovery about gene-swapping bacteria changing sushi-eaters’ digestion:

Genes regularly shuttle between different bacteria, offering each

… Read the rest “Sushi superpowers.”

SONG: Aquarium (penitential Robyn Hitchcock cover)

12 April 2010 grant b 0

SONG: “Aquarium” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)

ARTIST: grant. Originally by Robyn Hitchcock.

SOURCE: This is a penitential cover. There’s… Read the rest “SONG: Aquarium (penitential Robyn Hitchcock cover)”

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