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Helping hand at the zoo
TPP was offering a helping hand to a local zoo. Oh, it had nothing to do with the animals, but the landscaping of some exhibits being built and planned. Here's the rub, you're not going to have...
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On the road with new wheels
The Phactors have been buying new cars on average every 14.5 years whether we need one of not. It's just the kind of wild spending people we are. After 12 years TPP's old car had logged 70K miles. The...
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The many tragedies of Edward Teller
This is a revised version of a post written a few years ago on physicist Edward Teller's birthday.Edward Teller was born on this day 107 years ago. Teller is best known to the general public for two...
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"What a confusion for Geologists" - Geologizing with Darwin
The first stop of the voyage of the Beagle(1831-1836) was “Quail Island” (today Island of Santa Maria) – a small island located in the bay of Praia of the larger island of St.Jago (today Santiago, Cape...
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New on Field of Science
The Rosy Birds - COO »The many tragedies of Edward Teller - CW »Electric mushrooms - TPP »"What a confusion for Geologists" - Geologizing with Darwin - HG »
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Is there DNA in oreos?
I have to weigh in on this.I spend a lot of time discussing the idea that bacteria can use DNA as a source of nutrients, and audiences are always surprised when I show this graphic and point out that...
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You may be a redneck if your backyard is a swamp
It had been way too long since TPP has visited his kid sister who lives in the pan handle of Florida. Now honestly, she is no more redneck than her older brother, yours truly, but she does have a swamp...
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Wildlife on display at Wakulla Springs
The weather down there in Florida was as good as it gets in January, sunny with highs in the 60s. What a nice respite from our usual January weather in Lincolnland. Well, you can't waste such nice...
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No, Wi-Fi exposure is not killing your kids
Last week a blog post at Forbes on Wi-Fi devices went viral. That post, by fellow Forbes contributor Robert Szczerba, claimed that Wi-Fi exposures from cell phones, iPads, microwave ovens, and other...
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From the Contracting Earth to early Supercontinents
“What are they?Creations of mind?- The mind can make Substance,and people planets of its own With beings brighter than have been, and give A breath to forms which can outlive all flesh.”“The Dream“,...
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"Clueless machines being ceded authority far beyond their competence"
Edge.org which is well-known for asking big-picture questions and having leading thinkers offer their answers to the questions has a relevant one this year: "What do you think about machines that...
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Surprises in physics: From black bodies to the accelerating universe
Max Planck's revolutionary 1900 discovery that energy in the subatomic world exists as discrete packets marked the beginning of a century of spectacular surprises in physics Surprises rank high on the...
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Plant poaching
It always sounds a bit weird, but plant poaching does occur. The plants have to be sufficiently rare and desireable to be worth the effort. Things like the ghost orchid of the Everglades and the Venus...
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A Magnolia experiment
While in western Florida, my dear Sister suggested we visit a native plants nursery in Talahassee, not so she could enhance the diversity of her wildlife preserve, but to amuse TPP. They had some very...
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Annihilator: Hollywood, the galaxy and everything
by @ulaulaman a review of #Annihilator, a #cosmic #comics by Grant Morrison and Frazer Irving Rabbits are animals extremely prolific, almost legendary in their rate of reproduction, so that Leonardo...
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Boundary value conditions, domain applicability and "American Sniper"
Actor Bradley Cooper in "American Sniper"General relativity is a generalization of Newtonian mechanics which applies to large objects moving at high speeds that curve spacetime. Similarity, quantum...
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Geologists in the land of the Kangaroo
Terra Australis - the southern continent had been “discovered” by Europeans already in 1606, but only in 1642 the size of the new “island” becomes clear and the first geological observations were made...
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Recently On Field of Science
January 6, 1912: Happy Birthday Continental Drift! - HG »A Flat White! Yes, please! - TPP »In a Pufferfish's Garden - CO »Book Review: Elizabeth Kolbert's "The Sixth Extinction" - CW »
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The Rosy Birds - COO »The many tragedies of Edward Teller - CW »Electric mushrooms - TPP »"What a confusion for Geologists" - Geologizing with Darwin - HG »
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She's back, again, again, again!
Yes, folks, unless you are living in a cave and bereft of news you know that Sarah PalindroneTM is back in political news with hints of running for POTUS. Expectedly the news she made was for giving a...
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