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Proofs without words: the rolling circle
A rolling circle squares itself.Elsner T. (1977). The Rolling Circle Squares Itself, Mathematics Magazine, 50 (3) 162. DOI: 10.2307/2689507
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Unmaking Maker's
The whole thing about whiskey is the proof. The whole idea of proof is a test of the strength, the alcohol content of the distilled beverage. The way they used to test whiskey, seeing if a 1:1 mixture...
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Father-in-law of a Science Fair
Well another Twin Cities Creation Science Association science fair has come and gone. This ostensibly is a science fair for homeschooled children, but is more pointedly a “Christian-only science as...
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Official first day of spring
It's only Feb. 13th, but spring has officially arrived for the Phactors' gardens. The calendar means nothing in this reckoning; the first flower has opened. And the winner is ....wait for...
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Help Desk: Relationship Edition
A couple months ago I introduced the Help Desk so I could answer real questions from Inkfish readers. These aren't questions people submitted intentionally, though—they're search terms that sent...
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Ending the long gap (the RA's purine-regulation manuscript)
Aarrghhh! So long since I've posted any science here (or for that matter any teaching on RRTeaching). This short post is just to get me going again... The Research Associate recently gave me a new...
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New Basal Dinosauromorph Synthesis Paper
A solid review of our current knowledge of non-dinosaurian dinosauromorphs such as lagerpetids and silesaurids.Langer, M. C., Nesbitt, S. J., Bittencourt, J. S., and R. B. Irmis. 2013. Non-Dinosaurian...
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Two New 'Rauisuchid' Papers
Weinbaum, J. C. 2013. Postcranial skeleton of Postosuchus kirkpatricki (Archosauria: Paracrocodylomorpha), from the upper Triassic of the United States. In Nesbitt, S. J., Desojo, J. B. and R. B....
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Saturday morning quest
It comes as no surprise that two busy, working professionals end up running errands on Saturday mornings. When else do you do it? This particular Saturday finds Mrs. Phactor at a workshop, which...
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When people say they are 'spiritual', what do they mean?
It's fashionable these days to talk about 'spirituality' instead of religiousness. The term is designed to include people who are still basically religious, but who are, perhaps, turned off by...
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Calculating machines
posted by @ulaulaman about the italian exhibition dedicated to #AlanTuring The Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo da Vinci in Milano was founded 60 years ago on the 15th February and yesterday...
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Need something to do this afternoon?
Come see Dr. Sehoya Cotner speak. She is giving the talk "Fun Myths About Evolution Explored." The talk begins at 2:00 and is open to anyone, I'll be there a bit earlier if anyone wants to say...
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Got your meteorite insurance?
The recent meteorite event in Siberia, has a number of people wondering just how great is the risk of riding on a planet racing through rock littered space? Other than TPP’s gut reaction that if this...
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Identification Basics for Bryophytes Video
This the second video in the series Looking Down by Lena Coleman, a graduate student at California State University Northridge.This video teaches the basics of identifying bryophytes. She walks through...
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Blog clout!
Oh, yeah! That's right! You don't want TPP coming down on you! So from the perspective of this keyboard, no big surprise really that the makers of Maker's Mark decided maybe it wasn't such a good...
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Manipulation of biological clocks teaches an important lesson
Synechococcus Elongatus in Petri dish Evolution is a powerful force that optimises organisms to fit in their environment. But, in our attempts to understand life, biologists often stumble upon natural...
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St. Ignatius' Beans: Strychnine and herbal remedies
Before chemists became adept at synthesizing and purifying single molecules, materia medica relied heavily on plant based materials. The chemicals in plants are not uniformly innocuous, or safe at...
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Triassic Marine Flooding Event Identified by a Vertebrate Bonebed
Reolid, M., Pérez-Valera, F., Benton, M. J., and J. Reolid. 2013. Marine flooding event in continental Triassic facies identified by a nothosaur and placodont bonebed (South Iberian Paleomargin)....
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Latest Permian Strata Preserved in the Western U.S.?
Saltzman, M. R., and A. R. C. Sedlacek. 2013. Chemostratigraphy indicates a relatively complete Late Permian to Early Triassic sequence in the western United States. Geology (early online)...
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Naturopathic shenanigans in the Maryland state legislature
Quacks never give up. In their never-ending quest to make money from bogus treatments, they try all kinds of strategies to convince people that what they're selling really, really works, despite the...
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