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The damages of the heavy metal
by @ulaulaman via @verascienza about #heavymetal #chemistry #health A heavy metal is any metal or metalloid of environmental concern. The term originated with reference to the harmful effects of...
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Molecular modeling and physics: A tale of two disciplines
The LHC is a product of both time and multiple disciplinesIn my professional field of molecular modeling and drug discovery I often feel like an explorer who has arrived on the shores of a new...
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Garden gnome drone
TPP thinks he's on to something. First, let's assume you have a ceramic garden gnome because you cannot find anything more interesting to put in your garden like a chair. Second, never under estimate...
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Vertebrate sexual systems
Awesome figure of the sexual systems used by 2,145 vertebrates species (705 fish, 173 amphibian, 593 non-avian reptilian, 195 avian, 479 mammalian).Similar figures for plants and invertebrates.Tree...
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Brazuca, a Pogorelov's ball
posted by @ulaulaman about #Brazuca #geometry #WorldCup2014 #Brazil2014 Brazuca is the ball of the World Cup 2014. The particular pattern of its surface is a consequence of the Pogorelov's theorem...
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Rock Mosses
Black rock-moss Andreaea rupestris, photographed by Sture Hermansson.Upon first examining the picture above, you might think that you were looking at a patch of moss. Which would not be an unreasonable...
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Geology and Generals: How Geology influenced the Gettysburg Campaign (Part I.)
“Hence the saying: If you know the enemy and know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you know Heaven and know Earth, you may make your victory complete.”The Art of War, by Sun TzùIn...
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The Cable Companies Want to Control our Internet Access. We are so hosed.
If you’re reading this, you care deeply about net neutrality - even if you don’t know what it means. How would you like to pay 2, 3, or maybe 10 times as much to access all the websites you frequent?...
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Monday, monday
Monday started early when a cat woke TPP to tell him that a thunderstorm was approaching, a fact he would find out himself in another 10 to 15 minutes. She's got good hearing and is a little afraid of...
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73rd Carnival of Evolution: World Cup Edition
Welcome to the 2014 Carnival of Evolution World Cup of evolution blog posts.We have an exciting post ahead of us today where we will find the winner of the inaugural CoE World Cup. Entered posts will...
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July 2014 Desktop Calendar
July Desktop Calendar 1 - Single click on the image to open it up in a new window. (If you use the image directly from the blog post you will lose a lot of resolution.) 2 - Right-click (or ctrl-click)...
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Cargo bikes
Bicycles designed to haul cargo are pretty unusual even around a bike-popular college town. TPP's own BikeE has a nice nylon pack behind the seat and it's big enough to pick up produce at the farmer's...
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Much rooms
June was the 5th wettest on record, most because of a couple of inches of rain right at the end of the month. The gardens, new plants, and some replants got plenty of water, and the lily pond even had...
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Build-Your-Own Microscope
The microscope that I built with my aunt. Continuing my pursuit of home microscopy, I came upon these instructions for building a microscope and had to try it out. As a microscope, it is bulkier than...
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CIHR results...so depressing
The results have been released for the latest competition for operating grants from the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (Canada's equivalent of NIH). Our proposal was ranked 13/72 by its...
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There's No Such Thing as Caddids
Caddo agilis, from here.Long-time readers of this site may recall my previousrants on the subject of the prolific, but not entirely reliable, arachnologist Carl-Friedrich Roewer. Hopefully, this post...
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Blackberry or raspberry?
Well, there's a simple answer and a more complicated answer. Both are species (more than one) in the genus Rubus, but it has hundreds of species that also includes dewberries, cloudberries, salmon...
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Foney Ph.D.'s - Maybe that's the problem
TPP has long noted that his university colleagues generally divide into useful, contributing colleagues or academic jerks at just about a 50:50 rate. Now here's a story about a report that more than...
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Can a cosmetic lotion turn back time? Not yet.
A few years ago, L’Oréal introduced two new product lines that used “gene science” to "crack the code" and make your skin young again. The new products were supposed to boost the production of “youth...
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Mesons produced in a bubble chamber
by @ulaulaman about #mesons #bubblechamber #CERN #particles #physics A bubble chamber is a pool filled with a liquid (typically hydrogen) such that its molecules are ionized to the passage of a charged...
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