Saturday, October 27, 2012

science stuff

NatGeo has a slide show of the best micro photos of the year:

Image courtesy Gerd A. Guenther, Nikon Small World
Looking more like a series of scythes, this shot of sea gooseberry larvae (Pleurobrachia)—a type of ctenophore that's 95 percent water

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Cooking made us human, since eating raw food is hard to chew and digest enough calories, especially protein that is needed for the brain to grow properly.

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attention Bruce Willis: Not nukes: Paintballs.

In the event that a giant asteroid is headed toward Earth, you’d better hope that it’s blindingly white. A pale asteroid would reflect sunlight — and over time, this bouncing of photons off its surface could create enough of a force to push the asteroid off its course.
How might one encourage such a deflection? The answer, according to an MIT graduate student: with a volley or two of space-launched paintballs.


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Malala is improving. 

In our prayers.

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SHARK!

well, look at it this way: It could have been a humpback whale...


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