Clan of the cave honey badger. I don't speak Italian, but I'm real good with Google translate. Jati member of the friendfeed bardo. Frotfeathers, quince liquor, etc.
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I'm looking at the preliminary DNA analysis from the chipmunk samples I sent to the lab last fall and it's giving me a science boner. Microsatellites and PCA and Genbank sequences, oh my!
imabonehead, better you than me. ;) I am happy to be in the field, but appreciate the tools molecular biology can lend in helping us understand the health of our populations. Meg, I'm sure there exists a handful of people in this world that find dictyostelids cuter than sciurids.
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"The only signs of human life are several orange pylons (demarking, roughly, an airstrip), a fire ring, and a few tell-tale tracks of the fat, balloon-like tires that most bush planes land on in Alaska. I've persuaded Agnew to bring me out here so that I can see the terrain of a controversial bear-killing program run by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. The Beluga Lake camp is one of five locations where, from April 15 to Oct. 15 since 2009, eight carefully selected, specially trained fur trappers have baited plastic buckets with dogfood and waited in nearby alders for the bears to come sniffing. Each bucket contains a snare; when a bear reaches in, a wire snatches its paw and holds it. Both grizzlies and black bears have been captured, but only black bears have been "dispatched," sanitized phrasing for when the trapper emerges from his hiding spot and shoots."
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BEST NEWS EVER! Rec guy just comes up to me and tells me to supply him with a list of everything that was stolen and the value and they will get the funds to reimburse me. Suhweet!
You haven't failed me yet Jenny Bad-Ass. The Fierce Bushwhacker is one of Papa's guiding lights... <a href="#truly</a>" target="_blank">http://friendfeed.com/sea... ;
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This theft situation just gets better and better. It turns out my work truck's keys and fuel card were also in my backpack. Now I get to experience the wrath of the fleet manager. :(
Yes, but at the time, I didn't realize my vehicle keys and card were in my backpack. None of our law enforcement guys are in the office today, so I'll have to wait to add that to the report.
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Days like these make me really miss having my own office. It was nice being able to listen to my music, watch the birds high in the trees and read by the light God gave us. Today, I am irritated by all the noise around me, the harsh flourescent lighting and the disconnect from nature. Some days being a cubicle denizen is particularly harsh.
"If scientists at SETI do hear an alien signal, it probably won't sound like Saturn's aurora. That signal is astrophysical, meaning it occurs naturally. The SETI Institute is hunting for a signal that doesn't.
"The reason we look for that," Tarter says, "is that technology can create such signals very inexpensively — and it doesn't seem to be possible for nature to do that naturally."
Like a signal that shows up at only one frequency on the radio dial: Tarter says a signal like that could help answer the question, "Are we alone?""
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How long, do you think, before we finally narrow the options down enough, and develop high enough precision, to find such signals? My guess is we will in well under a decade, and my other guess is that we'll find something.
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"Every 14 days a language dies. By 2100, more than half of the more than 7,000 languages spoken on Earth—many of them not yet recorded—may disappear, taking with them a wealth of knowledge about history, culture, the natural environment, and the human brain. National Geographic's Enduring Voices Project (conducted in collaboration with the Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages) strives to preserve endangered languages by identifying language hotspots—the places on our planet with the most unique, poorly understood, or threatened indigenous languages—and documenting the languages and cultures within them."
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"Throughout human history, the languages of powerful groups have spread while the languages of smaller cultures have become extinct. This occurs through official language policies or through the allure that the high prestige of speaking an imperial language can bring. These trends explain, for instance, why more language diversity exists in Bolivia than on the entire European continent, which has a long history of large states and imperial powers.
As big languages spread, children whose parents speak a small language often grow up learning the dominant language. Depending on attitudes toward the ancestral language, those children or their children may never learn the smaller language, or they may forget it as it falls out of use. This has occurred throughout human history, but the rate of language disappearance has accelerated dramatically in recent years."
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"It's difficult to describe the illustrations of Edward Gorey without using the word "macabre." Death was often a subject of his drawings, and the way he depicted evil adults and dispatched mischievous children often provoked horror. However, his work often provoked humor. Besides, he didn't like the word "macabre." Gorey died in 2000 at the age of 75. Not long after, a slim paperback called The Strange Case of Edward Gorey was published. It was written by Alexander Theroux, one of Gorey's close friends — he had few. Recently, Theroux went back to the now-out-of-print original monograph to rewrite, expand and redesign it. It's just been published in hardcover, and Theroux spoke to Weekend Edition Sunday host Liane Hansen about his peculiar longtime friend."
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"When asked why Gorey didn't like the word "macabre," Theroux says: "I think he heard it too much — 'ghoulish' and 'macabre' — in interviews. He never really liked to talk about his work to make a paradoxical point, and everyone always went through that gate when they were talking to Edward Gorey, and I think over the years he wanted to talk about other things.
"He was a cartoonist in the widest definition and a major illustrator in the smallest," Theroux says. "But I think his particular style grew out of the fascination with pen and ink drawings. He once told me it was so hard to get a book published in color in the early 1950s that all his books were in black and white. And his drawings got more and more oblique — his subject matter was the 1920s, and he always fit his drawings to that particular world, the Edwardian period."
Gorey wrote more than 90 books, illustrated some 60 others, designed sets, and won a Tony Award for the show Dracula. Yet it seems Gorey thought his work was ephemeral and almost insubstantial."
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I keep meaning to check them out. They are on a label that I tend to like, but every so often they sign a band that makes me go O_o so I never know. ;)
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I am supposed to be here until 5:30, but I think I'll utilize 30 minutes from my credit hours. Working OT tomorrow and I want to just chill'ax for awhile.
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"Moon Trees came about through the work of Astronaut Stuart Roosa. Before joining the Air Force, Roosa had worked as a U.S. Forest Service smokejumper, dropping into at least four active fires in Oregon and California during the 1953 fire season. When later selected for the Apollo 14 mission, the Forest Service asked him to consider carrying some tree seeds with him into space. Roosa agreed and decided to bring seeds from loblolly pine, sycamore, sweet gum, redwood, and Douglas fir trees. He carried the seeds – around 500 in total – in a small container in his personal bag."
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"Upon the return to Earth, the seed canister burst after being exposed to a vacuum, scattering and mixing up the seeds. Nonetheless, the seeds were recollected and sent off to two research facilities: the Southern Forest Research Station in Gulfport, Mississippi, and the Western Research Station in Placerville, California. The seeds proved viable, giving the Forest Service more than 400 Moon Tree seedlings.
The first official Moon Tree planting ceremony was held in Philadelphia’s Washington Square Park on May 6, 1975. Roosa, Forest Service Chief John McGuire, Philadelphia Mayor Frank Rizzo, Woodsy Owl, and many others were on hand as a sycamore seedling was planted in the northeast corner of the park."
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"NASA is trying to track down several hundred aging travelers who flew to the moon and back 40 years ago and now live quietly across the United States. It took an e-mail from a third-grade class in Indiana years ago to remind the space agency about these early visitors to outer space."
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"The agency announced last week that it is still searching for several hundred "moon trees" grown from seeds carried aboard the Apollo 14 command module that orbited the moon in 1971. Part science experiment, part public relations campaign, the idea was to see whether space flight affected their ability to sprout.
Astronaut Stuart Roosa carried a metal canister about the size of a soda can in his personal kit filled with more than 500 seeds from loblolly pine, redwood, sweet gum, sycamore and Douglas fir trees. He did it in part to honor the U.S. Forest Service, where he had served as a smoke jumper, the first responders to forest fires."
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