Category: Natural World
What The Internets Is For.
May 13th, 2010, No Comments
Find Owls Near You. Does what it says on the tin.
What’s That Coming Out Of Your Nose -Is It A Monster?
May 5th, 2010, No Comments
Is it a monster? Or could it be something thought to have been extinct aeons ago? In a shudder inducing post at Circus of The Spineless GrrlScientist describes a new species of bloodsucker from Amazonia that feeds on the mucous membranes in the nose: As if most people don’t have enough blood-suckers in their lives, [...]
Links For A Dull, Rainy Sunday
May 2nd, 2010, No Comments
‘Nomnomnomnom’ goes the kitteh: They could have turned off the Gulf oil leak like a tap. But they chose not to, and Obama was a wimp. The Wall Street Journal reports that the well lacked a remote-control shut-off switch that is required by Brazil and Norway, two other major oil-producing nations. The switch, a back-up [...]
Ooh, A Shiny New Toy
May 2nd, 2010, No Comments
This Dynamic Planet is an online, interactive world map of volcanoes, earthquakes, impact craters, and plate tectonics, jointly produced by the USGS and the Smithsonian. (Click image to go to interactive map) Clicking on a feature within the interactive map zooms in to even more detailed maps and information. I’m going to be playing with [...]
Linky Goodness: Science, Scones and Squid
April 28th, 2010, No Comments
Discover Magazine: Off the California Coast, Giant Volcanoes Made of Asphalt
Some Days All You Want To Do Is Cry
April 26th, 2010, No Comments
What the hell are New Guinea thinking, letting these profiteers destroy the vent fields?
Previously only seen in bad sci-fi stories
April 23rd, 2010, No Comments
Monstrous bacterial colonies the size of entire countries have been spotten in the Pacific: A mat the size of Uruguay composed of giant bacteria has been discovered in the mid-depths of the ocean off the coasts of Chile and Peru, report scientists who are working on a series of studies of the ocean’s smallest life [...]
Clever clog^wcrows
April 22nd, 2010, No Comments
Researchers teach already way too clever crows how to combine tools: In their experiment, they temporarily captured seven wild New Caledonian crows and presented them with a complicated problem that could only be solved by using a number of tools in a specific order. The birds were placed on a perch, and tied to the [...]
Your Happening World (12)
March 29th, 2010, No Comments
A quick look at the more interesting stories found today. Inconcievable! The Press Complaints Commission has actually ruled in favour of a complaint — and against Rod Liddle’s goat curry rant. The rant in question: “The overwhelming majority of street crime, knife crime, gun crime, robbery and crimes of sexual violence in London is carried [...]
