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Top picks Commander Chris Hadfield ended his amazing run on the International Space Station with this beautiful video …
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Looks like someone just ended it:
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Alll of the Swiss mountain dogs, except for the St. Bernard, are black and tan dogs with white points as their standard color, but every once in a while a recessive red and white pup is born into one of their litters. Here’s a very good page on the history and foundation of the Swiss […]
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Miley’s back in action now. She almost pulled a fleeing squirrel off a tree yesterday.
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Mars One has launched a project to put humans on Mars by cutting out one of the biggest costs of the mission. Putting a human into space is easy. A lot of expense is cut out if you don’t plan to bring them back alive. The target first launch is 2016. It’s highly ambitious and [...]Rating: 0.0/5 (0 votes cast)The post Will Martian cuisine have a terrifying secret? appeared first on AoB Blog.
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Burying Beetles Turn Carcass into Baby Food
You want zombies? A scary movie? These beetles can trump most Hollywood horror films anytime!
via National Geographic.
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For a kitty that might be dead, he sure keeps busy. photo via Cheezburger.com
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'Plant Evolution' at JFK Arboretum, Ireland.
Today marks Fascination of Plants Day 2013 around the World.
It's a day to get as many people as possible enthused about the importance of plants for agriculture, food production, horticulture, forestry, energy production, production of pharmaceuticals and the variety of other ways that plants impact on all our lives.
The celebration is spearheaded by the European Plant Science Organisation but, in just two years, has already spread beyond […]
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A deadly but critically endangered snake, one of the world’s rarest birds and a heavily guarded flower are among the endangered species in the news this week. A New Snake with a Sad Story: A gorgeous but extremely dangerous new snake species has been discovered in Honduras. The new palm pit viper has been named [...]
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May is National Cancer Research Month, which is why Beaker will feature three articles over the next two weeks about the exciting cancer research taking place at Sanford-Burnham.
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If you’re looking to show doubters that plants are fascinating then a good starting point is Daniel Chamovitz‘s What a Plant Knows. I was a bit wary of the book at the title made it sound a bit twee. In fact the book is an accessible and extensive exploration of how plants react to their [...]Rating: 0.0/5 (0 votes cast)The post What a Plant Knows by Daniel Chamovitz appeared first on AoB Blog.
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Watch and Hear: Crystal Clear
via jtotheizzoe:
Crystals are ordered, complexly symmetrical, and even dynamic in their growth and dissolution. It’s no wonder we’re attracted to these chemical lattices as an art form. Linden Gledhill’s new montage of microscopic crystals and food dyes takes that to its aesthetic apex. In this great video, he uses them as a colorful backdrop to a track off Jon Hopkins’ (no relation to the medical school) new album Immunity.
See what amazingness can occur
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Octopuses that live in the deep open ocean are difficult enough to find. But try locating a “glass” octopus, which is nearly transparent. Floating in the dim midwaters, this gelatinous octopod looks almost like a be-suckered jellyfish. Rather than camouflaging like most known octopus species, the Vitreledonella richardi has taken this alternative approach to hide [...]
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Angelina Jolie recently revealed she underwent a double mastectomy; a prophylactic measure to combat the risk of breast cancer associated with BRCA1 gene she carries. Like many other ‘disease’ genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 show evidence of positive selection, suggesting a … Continue reading →
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Today is Fascination of Plants Day. To celebrate we’ll have a few posts out today. At midday we have a review of What a Plant Knows by Daniel Chamovitz, a book that shows how fascinating plants can be. At 17:00 there’s news of why the people applying for the Mars One reality programme had better [...]Rating: 0.0/5 (0 votes cast)The post Welcome to Fascination of Plants Day on AoB Blog appeared first on AoB Blog.
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Angelina Jolie’s decision to have a double mastectomy to reduce her risk of breast cancer, after she learnt she carried the BRCA1 gene, resulted in blanket coverage across the media this week. You can read about her reasons for undergoing … Continue reading →
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Artem Kaznatcheev and I presented a poster on May 4th at the University of British Columbia to a highly interdisciplinary conference on religion. The conference acronym is CERC, which translates as Cultural Evolution of Religion Research Consortium. Most of the 60-some attendees are religion scholars and social scientists from North American and European universities. Many […]
Kaznatcheev, Artem & Shultz, Thomas R. (2011). Ethnocentrism maintains cooperation, but keeping one’s children close fuels it., Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 3174-3179. Other: Link
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Note: This entry was originally posted here on 27 February 2011. With all of the recent wonderful news regarding the publication and analysis of the Utricularia gibba genome and the implications of the evolution of its minimal genome, I thought it worthwhile to repost this entry and remind ourselves the other ways in which bladderworts are amazing and interesting. See elsewhere (here is ok) for coverage of the genome research or read the paper!----"Hi." Trap of Utricularia inflata, clearly
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After a day in the field, we stopped by C & E Rock Sales to visit a friend and owner of this local business. C & E Rock Sales specializes in producing prepped and polished fossilized wood which is then sold locally from the shop or sold to external gift shops for public purchase. This […]
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Good news! Field Guide to the Jewel Beetles of Northeastern North America is finally shipping! If you pre-ordered a copy of the book and you live in Canada, you should be receiving the book any day now (if you haven’t already). If you don’t live in Canada, don’t worry, we haven’t forgotten about you. To [...]
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I had Miley out this evening, and I was taking photos of her as usual, when she got tensed up about something: I looked over to my right, and there, about 100 yards away, a black form was moving through the tall grass. It was slinking along at slow speed. I never got a good […]
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5 things you should never do with a particle accelerator
Suzie Sheehy is a researcher and science communicator who specialises in particle physics and accelerator physics.
She was one of many big names who gave talks at the IOP’s Physics in Perspective event at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in 2013.
Find out more: http://www.iop.org/education/teacher/extra_resources/perspective/page_41717.html
Duration: 36:36
via Institute of Physics.
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Jamy Ian Swiss - Skepticism 101 at the Orange County Freethought Alliance Conference
Duration: 54:06
via The Good Atheist.
