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Pretty math

( Science )

Seen on the web.

Earth Day 2011

NASA has a lovely gallery of pictures of this wonderful planet on which we live.  It is a wonderful planet on which we live and we take it for granted, I fear.  Human culture is based on extraction of natural resources.  The rate at which we extract those resources has increased since the beginning of [...]

500 kV switch opens under load

( Science andvideo )

Creation museum trip

( Politics andScience )

I ran across this online and lost the link.  Here it is http://www.buffalobeast.com/117/let_there_be_retards.htm

Slut gene

( Personal andScience )

Dopamine receptor D4 is encoded by the DRD4 gene.  A new study linked variations in this gene to a variety of thrill seeking behaviors, including infidelity. In a first-of-its-kind study, a team of investigators led by Justin Garcia, a SUNY Doctoral Diversity Fellow in the laboratory of evolutionary anthropology and health at Binghamton University, State [...]

The rich are different than us

( Science )

There is one thing that money can’t buy, and it isn’t love.  It is the ability to read other people’s emotions. Upper-class people have more educational opportunities, greater financial security, and better job prospects than people from lower social classes, but that doesn’t mean they’re more skilled at everything. A new study published in Psychological Science, [...]

The living planet

( Science )

Life has been found in the deepest part of the Earth’s crust that we have been able to explore. IT’S crawling with life down there. A remote expedition to the deepest layer of the Earth’s oceanic crust has revealed a new ecosystem living over a kilometre beneath our feet. It is the first time that [...]

Just sayin…

XKCD comic.

Koalas and chlamydia

( Science andvideo )

Oh my.

Underground coal fires

I have been thinking about this lately.  There are huge underground coal fires in China, one supposedly 3000 miles long.  This article is about one in Pennsylvania. In 1962, a small community in rural Pennsylvania prepared for a Memorial Day celebration. On the town’s edge, near the Odd Fellows Cemetery, sat an old mining pit [...]