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Valentine's day doings
It's cold today, and getting colder, and with a stiff wind blowing so the wind chill factor is significant. The weather news people never make it clear whether they are reporting the wind chill factor...
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The mathematics of love
#ValentinesDay #mathematics \[\left (x^2 + \frac{9}{4} y^2 + z^2 - 1 \right )^3 - x^2 z^3 - \frac{9}{200} y^2 z^3 = 0\] via Wikipedia
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Eppur non si muove - Galileo Galilei and the impossible biomechanics of giants
Until the 17th century the discovery of skeletons of giants was a quite common event. In January 1546 and then in the years 1564, 1580 and 1613 bones were unearthed near the castle of Chaumont...
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What Einstein thought about Galilei
about #AlbertEinsten #GalileoGalilei Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is a mine of information for anyone interested in the cultural history of the Western world and its...
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Answer in Genesis affirms evolution, sort of
Answer is Genesis (i.e., Ken Ham and the Creation Museum) has published a really nice description of the bedbug paper that came out earlier this year. The story is in short that bedbugs used to be one...
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A Biologist´s Dream: The Lost Continent of Lemuria and Human Evolution
“Yet if hope has flown awayIn a night, or in a day,In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone?All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream.”“A Dream Within A Dream” by Edgar Allan...
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WOW! Galaxy M106 poses
This is a pretty mind-blowing image of galaxy M106, and you can download an even higher resolution image. This is pretty amazing stuff. Apparently some of this composite image, the red arms, result...
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Pale blue dot
This is an interesting juxtaposition with the previous blog. That tiny blue dot is Earth seen from Voyager 1 at a distance of just 6 billion kilometers, and it was taken 25 years ago. Let TPP say now...
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A really bad week for the supplements industry
If the ingredients in your pills don’t really work, does it matter if they’re correct?Well, yes. Even if that echinacea pill doesn’t cure the common cold, if a supplement manufacturer sells you an...
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February - tough month for gardeners and recent retirees
The most recent snow missed us (too bad), and now another cold front has settled upon the upper midwest. It looks grimly cold outside. This is a tough month for gardeners psychologically, and...
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Please extend some sympathy
When spouse and F1 team up on you, you don't really stand a chance. In this case however they teamed up with the NSA or some other nefarious government agency to track my movements. You see, since...
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Dang, not a "real expert" on evolution
Right Wing Watch reports that American Family Association governmental affairs director Sandy Rios...explained on her radio show today that, “science has done nothing but disprove the theory of...
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The Urbaum
Reconstruction of Archaeopteris, from Beck (1962).It appears that it's been over a month now since I last posted anything at this site. I'm not going to go back and check, but I think this may be the...
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Bailey Willis - The Man who made Mountains
U.S.G.S. engineer Bailey Willis(† February 19, 1949) was known for his unorthodox approach to geological questions. Puzzled by the geological structures he discovered in mountain ranges, long before...
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Back pack with built-in stool
Every now and then you see an idea that is clearly a winner, and this looks like one to TPP. Now of course the demographic TPP has in mind is 18-22 years old, and there might be 30-50 students of this...
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Birthday wishes
Alright, so today is my birthday. YAY me, I managed to survive another trip around the sun (despite what many Americans think). Not really a big accomplishment considering ~20,000,000 other people are...
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Polypodies: In the Fernery of the Senses
Common polypody Polypodium vulgare, copyright Paul Montagne.I'm not sure if I've ever had cause before to present my concept of the Evil Old Genus. The Evil Old Genus is one that has been used in the...
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Charles Lyell´s Quite Futile Hunt for the Sea-Serpent
In October 1845 British geologist Charles Lyellwas visiting Boston, when he noted an advertisement proclaiming that a “Dr.” Albert C. Koch would exhibit the 114-foot-long skeleton of “that colossal and...
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The dark side of the moon
#moon #astronomy #NASA #video #PinkFloyd The first photo of the lunar far side taken by the Soviet spacecraft Luna 3 on Oct. 7, 1959- via Universe TodayThe most recent photo of the darkside by NASA-...
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Planning ahead - corned beef version
Home-made, home-cured corned beef is a wonderful thing. It's another one of those things that TPP just does once a year in the third week of February. There are two reasons why. One, without a whole...
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