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Earth Now a Windier World : Discovery News - http://news.discovery.com/earth...

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"Over time, these kinds of small and incremental rises add up. Off the coast of Southern Australia, for example, the tallest 1 percent of waves have risen from five to six meters (16 to 20 feet). The most extreme winds are now blowing 10 percent faster than they used to. Ongoing changes in the most extreme conditions could have major consequences, said Mark Donelan, an oceanographer at the University of Miami in Florida. If winds continue to get gustier at the same rate over the next 50 years, for example, the destructive forces of Category 5 hurricanes would multiply. “They’d go from knocking over 90 percent of the buildings to knocking over all the buildings,” Donelan said. “It’s hard to say how much more damage would be done. But it definitely wouldn’t be a good thing.”" - Jenny H - -

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LOL *shakes fist at springtime winds* - Jenny H - -

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Scientists Tune In To The 'Voices Of The Landscape' : NPR - http://www.npr.org/2011...

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"There's nothing new about studying animal sounds; biologists have been doing that for centuries. After all, if you want to understand birds, you need to understand how they communicate. But Bryan Pijanowski is now asking his colleagues to take a huge step back and, metaphorically speaking, listen not just to the trees, but to the forest. "We're trying to understand how sounds can be used as measures of ecosystem health," says Pijanowski, who teaches in the department of forestry and natural resources at Purdue University. He and some colleagues have written a call to action in the journal BioScience. It's time, they say, to formalize the study of "soundscape ecology." "We're interested in all the voices of the landscape," Pijanowski says. "Not just particular individual species, but really, the orchestration of those different sounds by biological organisms."" - Jenny H - -

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"Jesse Barber, an assistant professor of biological sciences at Boise State University, says scientists have just begun to explore how noise affects animals. "Probably the most telling work has come from a series of groups that have worked in oil and gas fields," he says. Researchers compared bird life around noisy equipment that compresses natural gas with similar — but quiet — habitat. In Alberta, they found that birds had fewer offspring at the noisy sites. Similar results came from the Southwestern U.S. "The group working in New Mexico found that there is significantly reduced species richness comparing these two sites," Barber says. Lab experiments in Germany have found that noise interferes with bats that hunt for insects on the ground by listening for the sounds they make when scurrying around. Barber says people just don't think much about how noise is affecting wildlife."" - Jenny H - -

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When I was a young girl, I taught myself how to read music and play the piano, albeit clumsily. In Jr High, I taught myself how to play the cello. #saturdayff

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I don't know if it's really an exception. In most cases, "{instrument}ing" doesn't even make sense. There's no pianoing*, no fluting*, no guitaring*. But I guess I see what you mean if you're talking about "playing the {instrument}", which doesn't usually mean the same thing as "{instrument}ing." "Playing the drums" != "drumming". "Playing the trumpet" != "trumpeting". Still, if you really want to be pedantic, "playing a fiddle" is not the same as "playing the fiddle" - Jenny H - -

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They aren't the same thing? - Jenny H - -

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My coffee cup is, most unfortunately, empty. Either I lie in bed and look at it longingly or get my ass up and refill it. I lost my voice so I can't call for one of the slaves, er, precious children to refill it for me.

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Awwwww...okay, I guess texting/IMing will suffice. :) - Jenny H - -

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Start throwing things into the hall until they come and see why you've lost your mind. :) - Jenny H - -

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Strong xanax is strong, y'all. There goes my evening. Zzzzz... Also #overexposed

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Oh don't try to blame Lisa for anything. I think it comes naturally. :P - Jenny H - -

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Yes, they are. She still looks like she's up to something, though. :) - Jenny H - -

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So I've been sitting at my computer all day, writing, when I realize I am not breathing normally and have to keep periodically gasping for air. Anxiety? I have 4 biological evaluations due this week, NEPA training all next week, followed immediately by a 4-day bat working group meeting, then 2 more biological evals due, and then field season.

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Take some 3-5 minutes break here and there and take some deep breaths and if you can lay on your back when you do that ... and drink more water instead of coffee ;-)) - Jenny H - -

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Even if you take only couple of minutes break and walk around it helps ... but deep breathing it is more effective ... ;-) - Jenny H - -

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Todays theme song shall be: #jennymusic

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*waves at Jenny from her own perch out on that same ledge* - Jenny H - -

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Ooh, Android 2.2 is secksi. I can actually upload photos to FF from my browser without having to use a third-party app. WIN.

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That's how I've always done it on my phone :) - Jenny H - -

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Example post from Android now required. As per iPhone. Once clicking add photos/files, you can't further browse your library, but instead hafta special email to post them - Jenny H - -

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"...I don't fault her for making bank, I just wish it hadn't been Huggies. - Haggis" Trololololololol

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Prehistoric Skin Holds Building Blocks of Life : Discovery News - http://news.discovery.com/animals...

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"Infrared light allowed Wogelius and his colleagues to "see" the internal details of the reptile, which was unearthed at Utah's Green River Formation. Based on its remains, the scientists believe the animal was bitten in half, leaving behind its lower half. The high-tech light causes vibrations in the reptile's fossilized skin. If organic compounds are present, they absorb portions of the beam and alter the reflected signal. That's exactly what happened, according to the study, permitting the researchers to view the protein residue and its chemical details. "Organic" refers to the fact "that these compounds are degraded, but not completely destroyed, and thereby reveal some of their original character," Wogelius explained. "Rather like salvaging a scorched photograph from a fire, much of the detail might be missing, but you might still be able to identify strong features, such as faces or unique buildings." In this case, the features reveal the prehistoric reptile's skin, which resembles that of modern lizards. Trace metals associated with color are present, but the scientists aren't certain what hues this animal sported." - Jenny H - -

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"We mostly know of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals by their now lifeless fossils. But the remains of a 50-million-year-old reptile from Utah have just yielded organic compounds that scientists have imaged in vivid detail, according to new research. These compounds, or protein residues, originate from the ancient unidentified reptile's skin, and once served as this animal's building blocks of life, conclude the authors of the study, published in the latest issue of the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biology." - Jenny H - -

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Chlamy And The Benefits Of Basic Research : 13.7: Cosmos And Culture : NPR - http://www.npr.org/blogs...

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"Here's a story about how "useless" basic research can yield wondrously useful outcomes — in this case, outcomes that promise new understandings of how our brains work. I've spent my scientific life studying the sex life of a unicellular green alga called Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (Chlamy). Others in the Chlamy community have spent their lives studying how it performs a very cool trick called phototaxis, allowing the cells to detect and swim towards beneficial light and away from damaging light. It's a trick that allows them to optimize their photosynthetic activity and growth. Light detection is carried out by an elegant organelle called the eyespot. In the 1990s, Peter Hegemann and his colleagues in Germany purified Chlamy eyespots and attempted to identify the protein(s) responsible for this activity. After a number of false starts, engagingly recounted here, they eventually identified the active protein, which they called channelrhodopsin -2 (ChR2) in 2003." - Jenny H - -

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Yeah, I'm sort of a biology nerd. - Jenny H - -

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Pictures: A Rare Look Inside Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant - http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news...

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"Although some power has now been restored to the facility, the workers known as the Fukushima 50 face a difficult job getting pumps and circuits to operate the crucial systems that provide cooling for the reactors and the spent fuel stored on site. The photos released by Japan’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency are the first look inside the plant since the devastating March 11 earthquake and tsunami that flooded the facility and crippled the backup generators needed to cool the radioactive fuel." - Jenny H - -

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Sia – My Love - http://www.last.fm/music...

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One of my favourite songs <3 - Jenny H - -

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Humpback whale fluke 2008-03-27 at 1348 - http://www.flickr.com/photos...

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I now live too close to the Baja to not go visit. I have been wanting to go whale watching for years! - Jenny H - -

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A very common sight when I lived in Baja. :) - Jenny H - -

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Mama's sleeping angel.

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Gracias, Z. :) - Jenny H - -

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*cheek kiss* I hope he gets better - Jenny H - -

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Sorry I've been neglecting your photos, John. :P - Jenny H - -

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To shave or not to shave...?

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Don't shave nuthin! - Jenny H - -

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*just wondering how jenny r would look like with a mohawk* lol! - Jenny H - -

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Holy shit! IM notifications are working again!

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really? - Jenny H - -

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Weird! - Jenny H - -

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Water Rushing Through Cities, The Gentle Version : Krulwich Wonders… : NPR - http://www.npr.org/blogs...

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"Eiseley, by the way, described people as, "those myriad little detached ponds with their own swarming corpuscular life, what [are] they but a way that water has of going about beyond the reach of rivers?"" - Jenny H - -

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"Henry David Thoreau was looking into a pond one day — it was his local pond, Walden, in Concord, Massachusetts — and as he looked, a fish, a pickerel, slid into view. That fish was so comfortable, so at ease in the water, Thoreau wrote in his diary that its muscles, its fins, its scales were almost water in a different form, "animalized water," he called it. And 150 years later, the great science writer Loren Eiseley said the same thing about people." - Jenny H - -

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From the morning commute: #jennymusic

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The sky tonight at dusk; it was quite lovely.

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I see the grinch in the lower right - Jenny H - -

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I see a large, bearded man playing a drum. - Jenny H - -

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Time for me to get the hell out of here before I spend more!

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I have been avoiding Borders like the plague. The one across from where I work is going out and I know I would be in massively deep shit if I set foot in there. So I keep pretending the big "GOING OUT OF BUSINESS" sign is for Whole Foods next door. - Jenny H - -

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It would be my pleasure, B. - Jenny H - -

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Slim pickings at Borders...

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Just doing my part to boost the economy. ;) - Jenny H - -

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Wow, they really need to restock, or close. - Jenny H - -

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We failed to reject the null hypothesis.

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How do you know the other bags aren't full of gelatinous goo? - Jenny H - -

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The density of the emergency water does not differ significantly from that of tap water. And, thus, ends the intrigue surrounding the emergency water. - Jenny H - -

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