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As pigeons evolve, their wings will become useless, much like the human brain
Quote of the Day: Truthiness is tearing apart our country, and I don’t mean the argument over who came up with the word. I don’t know whether it’s a new thing, but it’s certainly a current thing, in that it doesn’t seem [...]
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I just learned about Ferrofluid today. It can do some amazing things, like this video shows. After the jump is a second video explaining HOW ferrofluid works.
From the YouTube descriptioin:
A steel sculpture with changing magnetisation is coated with ferrofluid.
The fluid is pulled in the direction of increasing flux density and forms peaks, which become smaller [...]
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A female spotted salamander gravid with eggs in route to her breeding pool. There she will lay a cluster of approximately 100 eggs. Eight to ten weeks later, those eggs will hatch as larvae. In late summer, if the pool has not already dried, larvae will metamorphose into juveniles that migrate to the adjacent upland [...]
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When there’s no where to go but down!
Quote of the Day: “See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too.” – – Linus Torvalds
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Snowy owl
There are reports from bird enthusiasts that a rising numbers of snowy owls from the Arctic are winging into the lower 48 states this winter in a mass southern migration that a leading owl researcher called “unbelievable.”
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Psychic Octopus Paul in the spotlight once again.
An octopus housed in a German aquarium, Paul rose to worldwide fame when he managed to accurately predict each of the winners in the 2010 FIFA World Cup, soccer’s premier event. He went on to predict — again, accurately — the winner of the final.
Paul retired from predictions [...]
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If only we were able to unleash the true buying power of women, the whole economy
could be saved! But sadly, they’ve all been taking Dave Ramsey courses instead.
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Quote of the Day: “I was so ugly my mother used to feed me with a sling shot.” – – Rodney Dangerfield
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Rising human carbon dioxide emissions may be affecting the brains and central nervous system of sea fishes.
Rising human carbon dioxide emissions may be affecting the brains and central nervous system of sea fishes with serious consequences for their survival, an international scientific team has found…
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Good things come to those who stretch
Quote of the Day – “If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?” – – Scott Adams
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The death of a beloved pet can be a traumatizing experience, and most people love their pets as they would any other member of their family. But would you pay $50,000 to clone a new version of your beloved pet from the DNA of the deceased? The lady in this clip didn’t hesitate to head [...]
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Small but landmark frog.
SU’s Chris Austin recently discovered two new species of frogs in New Guinea, one of which is now the world’s tiniest known vertebrate, averaging only 7.7 millimeters in size — less than one-third of an inch. It ousts Paedocypris progenetica, an Indonesian fish averaging more than 8 millimeters, from the record. Austin, [...]
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Being crazy is never enough
Quote of the Day: “So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.” – – Dr. Seuss
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White Octopus spotted on ocean floor.
It’s easy to imagine that the seafloor miles beneath the icy surface of the Southern Ocean might be a cold, dark, inhospitable place, as devoid of life as the vacuum of space it so closely resembles — but that couldn’t be further from the truth. In a recent expedition near [...]
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Dogs who were spoken to or who had direct eye contact with a person were more likely to follow that human’s gaze.
Some dogs have the skills of a 6-month-old baby, according to a new report in Current Biology. Man’s best friend not only responds to the words and ministrations of humans, dogs can [...]
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This one is pretty neat: biologists at UC San Diego created a living “neon signs” made from glowing bacteria that fluoresce in unison…
