The red smudge at the center of this picture is the first comet discovered by NASA’s Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA
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Monthly Archives: February 2010
A private letter to Salty Current
Nobody read this.
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Google Buzz might reveal your secrets
According to Isis. Check it out. Then come back here. I don’t want you hanging out over there.
At Sea
Whale Wars: Cat and Mouse Games
How to change global patterns of consumption (of seafood) Vertical Agitation in Action
Stop Japan From Killing Week: Thou Shalt Not Kill Unless It’s Fast
Global Warming is not the opposite of Snow
But first a little basketball….
Bill Clinton Rushed to Hospital?
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Amazing stratigraphy in a Mars crater
This oblique view shows geological layers of rock exposed on a mound inside Gale Crater on Mars. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/USGS
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Coping with the snow
Dawkins Censored, Bigfoot found.
Is Buzz the Wave of the Future? Did Wave Buzz Off?
Huh. I was just beginning to explore Google Wave and now apparently it has already crashed on the lonely shore of Software User Indifference. But what will be the fate of Google Buzz? (Razib explores the question.)
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Health Science Items of Interest
Does “CardioFuel” (the dietary supplement) work?
Genetic research ties autism to ‘trust hormone’
Placebo Effect Explained (Note: The “explanation” is rong! See this.)
Atheistic Aggression
How difficult is it to distinguish between knee-jerk criticisms of religions and well-reasoned arguments? I would personally state this is quite simple by looking at the premises of the argument, but this oversimplifies a very complex issue….
World’s Largest Fish that is not a whale* on film!
This sucker was filmed in the Gulf of Mexico swimming among the oil rigs!!! It propelled itself with undulations of its dorsal fin and looks a lot like a sea serpent. In fact, it is said to be “the origin of the sea serpent myth” but I’m not quite sure what the difference is between being “the origin of the story of a 30 foot long fishy snaky thing with an undulating dorsal fin” and being a “30 foot long fishy snaky thing with an undulating dorsal fin” …
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There is a small difference between Har Mar and Har Har
Har Mar is a funny little shopping mall in Roseville Minnesota. It is the home of the annual Twin Cities Creation Science Science Fair. Sometimes we visit the science fair, but it is not to laugh at the students….
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Environmental effect implicated in behavioral phenotype in humans
Scientists at Mount Sinai School of Medicine reported that mothers who had high levels of phthalates during their pregnancies were more likely to have children with poorer scores in the areas of attention, aggression and conduct.
I’ve not read the paper, but you may find the SciAm report of interest. Hat tip Ana.