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How does blue taste?
Yesterday's laboratory covered starchy staples, not the most exciting topic, but more interesting than most students think at first. Actually their interest level was pretty good. Taro and cassava...
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Male Frogs Grip Mates with Pheromone-Injecting Thumb Spikes
There's nothing subtle about the wooing of European common frogs. Males grow spiny pads on their thumbs during the breeding season, the better to grip their mates. As if that weren't enough, the pads...
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September 2013 Desktop Calendar
This image from one of our hikes in South Tahoe last month. We started at the end of a tiny windy road that ran along Fallen Leaf Lake and hiked up to Gilmore Lake. These Polytrichum mosses were...
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Uh, oh. Some students are annoyed with their botany professor.
You know this happens from time to time that some students become annoyed with TPP. In this case they had an assignment, and while there were some suggestions, some directions, some questions, their...
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Bye, Bye, Spinicrus
Female Spinicrus...no, sorry, Megalopsalis nigricans, photographed by Tony. I've just had a paper out. The funny thing is, it's making me feel both pleased yet a little maudlin, because it represents...
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Postcranial Anatomy and Phylogenetic Relationships of the Sauropodomorph...
Otero, A. and D. Pol. 2013. Postcranial anatomy and phylogenetic relationships of Mussaurus patagonicus (Dinosauria: Sauropodomorpha). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33:1138-1168. Abstract - The...
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Khat is a no-no in Lincolnland and the USA
Small article in the Chi-town Trib says a midwestern man was arrested at ORD for having about 85 pounds of khat in this luggage. He didn't know it was a "controlled substance", a list of prohibited...
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Tetris is Hard, Even to Approximate
posted by @ulaulaman about #tetris #ComputerScience #NeuralNetwork Before today I thought that tetris was a really simple game...In the popular computer game of Tetris, the player is given a sequence...
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Gardening shoe?
These shoes are presented not because TPP has any pretense of knowing where the forefront of fashion is, or even which direction it is from his present location, but they are consistent with the...
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TMI Friday: Screwed the Pooch
There is a turn of phrase, "Screwing the pooch" which described doing something so catastrophically wrong that the failure is as deserved as it is inevitable. The case we will be looking at will...
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Conference spam...
The 3rd Annual World Congress of MolMed-2013November 13-16, 2013 Haikou, China Dear Rosemary J. Redfield,This is Tina. How are you?I'm writing to follow-up my last invitation letter as below,...
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Backyard death match
In answer to one of our top predator wanted ads, a juvenile red-tailed hawk stopped by last evening to entertain us during our cocktail hour (and a half). This is the biggest bird ever to visit our...
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A little drought relief
A band of mild-mannered thunderstorms rolled through the are about 3 am and we became aware of this when a nervous cat clambered onto the bed to tell us about it. She doesn't like the noise and needs...
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Humanitarian options
TPP is no foreign policy expert, but it would seem that there are options other than bombing the crap out of Syria because the gov't used poison gas on its own citizens, and doing nothing. After all...
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Bone Diagenesis Study of Early Triassic Cynodonts from Argentina
Previtera, E., D'Angelo, J. A., and A. C. Mancuso. 2013. Preliminary chemometric study of bone diagenesis in Early Triassic cynodonts from Mendoza, Argentina. Ameghiniana 50:460-468.Abstract - The...
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Atheists are more intelligent - but why?
When psychologists first studied the connection between religion and intelligence, in the 1920s and 30s, they came to the conclusion that atheists were more intelligent, on average, than their...
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How Many Continents Does Katy Perry's "Roar" Video Take Place On Simultaneously?
The video for Katy Perry's newest single, "Roar," has been viewed almost 36 million times since it appeared online four days ago. In case none of those views were yours, a quick plot summary: A woman...
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Do you have Pteridomania?
On the title page of her book Fern Fever: The Story of Pteridomania Sarah Whittingham informs us of the following definitions."Pteris Greek word for a fern, derived from pteron, meaning feather or...
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Robotic Tanystropheus to Promote Marine Biology Conservation
http://focustaiwan.tw/news/asoc/201309070016.aspx
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Dr. Oz tries to do science again, this time with green coffee bean extract
Dr. Mehmet Oz hosts a popular TV show in which he promotes all sorts of medical treatments, some good and some - well, not so good. And once in a while, he tries to do a science experiment, as he did...
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