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Celebrating the Irish-Geological Heritage
According to a popular myth, long time ago lived a giant named Finn McCool on the shores of the county of Antrim in Ireland. On the opposite shores lived the Scottish giant Benandonner. One day...
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Flaunt the green!
Happy St. Patrick's Day to all my readers, Irish or not. Whether you know this or not, ChiTown has a big Irish population and a correspondingly big St. Patrick's Day celebration and parade, although...
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Schocking political news here in Lincolnland
Our state’s young congressman really likes to place fast and loose with money. The public was paying for all sorts of questionable travel, and he accepted an office remodeling job, a questionable gift...
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FieldNotes: speeding up and slowing down time
How many TV sets do you have—and why does it matter? by Krystal D'Costa at Anthropology in Practice: In the early nineties, researchers predicted that at the current rate of growth, there would be two...
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Friday Fabulous Flower - Filberts
The filberts (aka hazel-nut, Corylus americana) are in flower in the upper midwest in March this year. Most people being quite plant blind don't even notice the catkins (3 shown here), the dangling...
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Planning the DNA sequencing part of the PhD student's project
The former post-doc (I'll call him the FPD) visited yesterday afternoon, and we had intense discussions of how to proceed with both the RNAseq work (summarized here on our Sense Strand blog) and with...
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Corned beef tomorrow
It's just about time, no, not for St. Patrick's Day, which TPP missed, but for his annual corned beef brisket for which St. Patrick's Day is just an excuse. This year's brisket got started about 4...
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Lighten up people, we're just messin' with you!
Oh, those fun-loving GnOPes. Thank Tom Tomorrow for letting us in on the joke. To think anyone ever took them seriously. Seriously.
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Research tidbits - AJB March 2015
The American Journal of Botany is a publication of the Botanical Society of America. Highlights of several interesting articles is a new feature of each month's volume; this is vol. 102 (3). Mostly...
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A History of Geological Maps: I. From Outcrop to the first Map
March 23, 1769 marks the birthday of pioneering stratigrapher William Smith, who is also credited as author of the first modern geological map, however like many other great accomplishments also...
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Pauling vs Woodward: It's on
Some day they will hopefully make a video about this along the lines of Einstein vs Hawking or Hayek vs Keynes. For now an imperfect beginning will have to suffice (with apologies to Gilbert and...
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Fruits and vegetables up close and personal
Here's some pretty neat images of young, immature, fruits and vegetables. See if you can figure out what you're looking at. Oh, the strawberry does not show you the individual seeds, but the...
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Louis Nirenberg, the geometry and the Abel Prize
http://t.co/rTEYZLbVDZ by @ulaulaman about #AbelPrize #LouisNirenberg Great news: John Nash and Louis Nirenberg win the Abel Prize for 2015: The Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters has decided to...
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FieldNotes: from Captain Ahab to Jeff Goldblum, chasing the giants
Memory in the flesh by Arielle Duhaime-Ross at The Verge: .......But McConnell was also famous for something else: in the ‘50s and ‘60s, McConnell had performed a series of memory experiments at the...
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Life in the trenches - teaching biology to non-majors
For nearly 2 decades TPP taught biology to non-majors or freshman majors (but the class was still half non-majors) in large lecture sections, and he was very good at it. Although the upper mid-west is...
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OK spring weather
This spring weather is not okay, but it's in OK which generally in my experience has rather poor weather. Spring does begin our storm/tornado season. TPP lives at the very northeastern end of tornado...
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Friday Fabulous Flower - snow Trillium
Oh, this really is a fabulous flower, and it really is Friday. This is Trillium nivale, the snow trillium, the smallest trillium and earliest flowering woodland wild flower in these parts. This species...
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The Rhipidothyrididae: Brachiopods of the Devonian
Specimen of Rhenorensselaeria, copyright Miguasha National Park.In the modern world, the brachiopods are an unfamiliar group to most people. To most, they would probably not be readily distinguished...
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No money for tiger chow
Is there some contest among GnOPe governors to see who will be the "REAL" fiscal conservative as determined by who can make the most drastic cuts? Now there are cuts, and then there are cuts, but the...
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Evidence of Interaction between Two Late Triassic Apex Predators
I've been away for a bit, but am interested in trying to get back into the swing of things here so please bear with me. This is a paper from late last year that I haven't mentioned before.Drumheller,...
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