Friday, June 10, 2011

Science and other stuff below the fold

Genetic studies of Eurasia show Sardinians and Basques are unique...

check out other patterns and illustration of ancestry at link.

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a wall around the edge of the galaxy? no, but there is a "foam zone"...

and there might not be a huge solar system eating amoeba, but there are Cannibal Vampire stars

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What do you do when you have an entire island contaminated with drug resistant anthrax?

In 1986, the government began cleaning up Gruinard Island by spraying down the entire place with a solution of formaldehyde and seawater. As of 1990 the island was declared "safe"
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FatherZ has the question of the day:
The Washington Post has asked for 100 volunteer readers to go through some 24K emails from Gov. Sarah Palin’s tenure as Governor of Alaska. Can we imagine they are looking for the good things she did as Governor with the purpose of praising her? Surely there will be some. If they find those things will they report them?


ya think?

of course, the alternative might be to do a full text search for key words or phrases, and then have their staff check the emails that popped up with those phrases. But I guess that the WaPo is unaware such things exist...
or they could just post them all on the Pirate Bay and ask the downloaders for feedback.
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and the really important question of the day: What do those sawfish do with their big sword?

No, they don't send photos of it on twitter.

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