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Sunday, 23 November 2014

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Funny, Scary, Fascinating, and Geeky. What You Missed in Science This Week. 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [2014-11-23 04:28:24]  recommend  recommend this post  (619 visits) info
I am going to start doing a weekend post here with links and images from the world of geek that caught my eye this week. First up is Will Marshall and the TED talk below. Data is the fuel that science runs on, and he has figured out a way to harvest a LOT of it.   Guess what body of water is the 4th fastest warming on Earth? This

Let's make Asher some cookies 

Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs [2012-09-01 14:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (84 visits) info
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What better way to welcome our newest LITC writer, Asher Elbein, to the blog than to make him some nice cookies? Straight from the kitchen of Martha Stewart, after all. They are simple impressions from "food safe" plastic toys, and invite the possibility of illustrating the history of life in delicious, sugary form. Or to get really geeky with it, you could illustrate all sorts of ichnofossils: footprints, burrows, feeding traces... What I'm saying, Martha, is that you could take these fossil [...]

A Blueprint for Geospatial Data Sharing Policy in Arizona 

Arizona Geology [2012-07-08 18:12:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (82 visits) info
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The Arizona Geographic Information Council is circulating a draft Blueprint for Geospatial Data Sharing Policy in Arizona.      Yeah, this is pretty geeky, but it's long overdue and could offer tremendous resources and opportunities for agencies, businesses, and the public. The policy addresses recent changes in state statutes that in my opinion, had hindered Arizona for the previous

Why Thai zoos win 

Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs [2011-12-01 21:59:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (57 visits) info
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Recently, Niroot (yes! Him again!) went back to Chiang Mai in Thailand and visited the Chiang Mai zoo, where he found the below information board - among others - explaining how birds are dinosaurs.Admittedly, I can't read most of the text since, well, I don't speak (or read) Thai. So the main text could contain complete nonsense, for all I know. But the diagrams! The wonderful diagrams! I've been to a reasonable number of zoos in my life and have never seen anything quite like this. Another [...]

Shai-Hulud Discovered to Hate Coral 

In Terra Veritas [2009-04-03 21:21:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (22 visits) info
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Or for those who aren't geeky enough to know a Dune reference when they see one, I am talking about the Great Worms of Arrakis. In all seriousness though, there was a problem at an aquarium in Cornwall recently (click here for the Daily Mail article. Near as I can tell, this isn't an AFD prank, but it is also from a paper referred to as the "Daily Fail"). At night, the coral reef displays
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