Posts treating: "word"
Friday, 06 May 2016
I’m a dyed-in-the-wool museophile (no, I did not just make that word up). I love to look at collections of amazing specimens and artifacts. Turns out I also love to hoard things — oh, I mean collect items of great … Continue reading
This week, in the category of "one of those posts only Echinoblog could write"! Let us explore the vibrant diversity of echinoderm anal structures!! Perfectly SAFE for Work! even though it contains the word "anal" and "anuses" several times! WOO!!
Echinoderms are pentaradial (aka pentameral). That is they show a form of radial symmetry wherein their body always occurs around a
Think of the word "desert". What''s the first picture that pops into your mind? Is it Saguaro Cacti, like an old western? Is it cliffs and spires like other old westerns? Is it a painted desert, like an old Disney movie or a Roadrunner cartoon? Or is it an endless sea of sand? At different times, I've had all those stereotypes established in my head. The California desert is the one I
As an addendum to my previous post, it's worth mentioning that there's some dinosaur material on permanent display at the Horniman...just not very much. Perhaps the most noteworthy dinosaur display consists of a series of very dated scale models. They're most definitely of the pre-Renaissance, cold-blooded old school, but very charming with it. Here's a selection.Stegosaurus: lovingly detailed and boasting a rather lifelike skin texture, alongside a too-short tail and semi-sprawling forelimbs. [...]
Lava flows don't always destroy everything in their path. And we have a word for what survives.
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When I lived in Israel at the age of 15, it was before the internet, before cell phones, and in fact there were only two public phone booths available for use by the entire kibbutz of 800 people. Written all over the walls of both booths, in nearly every language imaginable, was the word "patience". I feel like scrawling that word all over my office walls right now!
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Cambriangirl - Science! Geology! Writing! [2016-02-28 13:57:41]
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The Hypermobility Syndrome Association is running an awareness week, so I thought I’d contribute. To be hypermobile, at the core definition of the word, is to have a range of motion that exceeds ‘normal’ range. In clinical usage it describes having a wide range of joint movement. And more than that, it can refer to
Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs [2016-01-25 22:39:00]
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Mostly thanks to pesky time constraints, I won't go in to too much detail about the BBC's latest dino-docu, Attenborough and the Giant Dinosaur. Examining the discovery of what might just be the largest titanosaur (and therefore dinosaur, and therefore land animal) yet, it briskly chronicles the discovery, excavation, analysis, and reconstruction in a way that's made all the more compelling by the lack of sensationalism and CGI bullshit. (OK, there's a little CGI, including a brief clip [...]
We have received word that there will be an educator on board Expedition 361! If you were unable to sign up for a webcast previously, this is your chance. Keep checking our live video event page here. The Google Form will be posted soon.
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“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” — Genesis 1:1 “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” — John 1:1 “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish
Now that the core is flowing, the word “recovery” is on the tip of everyone’s tongue. How was the recovery? Did the recovery improve? Man, the recovery has been great!
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“Crowdsourcing” – using the combined power of lots of people doing little tasks to achieve a bigger task – is a word we hear a lot today. But it is not often we hear it in conjunction with “GIS” – an acronym which few people outside of geography know (Geographical Information System). The world of
When I hear the word “sabertooth”, my mind immediately jumps to the great sabercats who sliced through throats
This weeks photo can be described by one word: mesmerizing. Honestly, it’s hard to tell which part of this photo is better, the beautiful starry sky backdrop or the glow of Kilauea’s...
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Staggering!... is the word that comes to mind with view of sheer rock faces like this one.
The northerly dipping rocks are not sedimentary, but are amphibolite and higher grade metamorphic rocks of the Greater Himalayan Crystalline series (some workers call it the High Himalayan Crystalline series) which make up the hanging wall of the Main Central Thrust. I hiked through the lower portions
Here is the word on a new theory why Denver and probably Arizona is at a high elevation. Mile High TheoryFrom Terry
There are increasing signs this early Sunday morning that the winter of 2015 is about to go into high gear. A major nor’easter is likely to develop Monday and move NE to off the New England coast by Tuesday evening. A word of warning here- there is still a lot of uncertainty in the strength and track of this low and that will play a big role in how
(This is a re-posting from 12/31/2013) “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.” Matthew 4:4 ESV It is through the Scriptures that we can know God, Christ, ourselves, and how to live in regards to God and our neighbor. I cannot think of any
Matt’s post yesterday was one of several posts on this blog that have alluded to Clay Shirky’s now-classic article How We Will Read [archived copy]. Here is the key passage that we keep coming back to: Publishing is not evolving. Publishing is going away. Because the word “publishing” means a cadre of professionals who are
Word comes today in the Modesto Bee that a local "farmer" has been fined $160,000 and ordered to purchase conservation easements worth $1,000,000 after he oversaw the destruction of 33 acres of prime vernal pool habitat. He was in the process of converting 850 acres of leased grazing acreage to an almond orchard when his tractors "deep-ripped" 380 acres, including the vernal pools. He had