Seen on the web.
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 [...]
I ran across this online and lost the link. Here it is http://www.buffalobeast.com/117/let_there_be_retards.htm
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
XKCD comic.
Oh my.
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 [...]