Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted): Early Birds Shake Up Avian Tree of Life
via Pharyngula/Tangled Bank, exciting parrot/falcon/songbird news! 'This analysis effectively redraws avian phylogeny, or family tree, thus shaking up our current understanding of the early, or "deep", evolutionary relationships of birds.'
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26 July 2008 – 11:00 pm
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22 July 2008 – 11:00 pm
cursivebuildings
Old stereoscopes animated to give a sense of depth. Via Metafilter.
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21 July 2008 – 10:01 am
Economics of POW Camp
An essay written in 1945 by a former POW. Interesting.
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19 July 2008 – 11:00 pm
» Alphabetized Bible «, 2006, by Tauba Auerbach . See also…
»Alphabetized Bible«, 2006, by Tauba Auerbach.
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18 July 2008 – 11:00 pm
Silver Lake on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Autochromes are a kind of early colour photography. This one is particularly fabulous, but check out the whole set.
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Running for Office: It’s Like A Flamewar with a Forum Troll, but with an Eventual Winner
OK, fair's fair, this is quite funny.
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17 July 2008 – 1:01 pm
Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog
Joss Whedon's online project. Which is actually very good and funny and stuff.
(del.icio.us tags: blogs musicals supervillains )
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15 July 2008 – 10:00 am
Emperor of Ice-Cream Cakes: Poems Are Jokes: Brace Yourselves
'This is clearly an illustration from some alternate Anne of Green Gables, one in which Marilla sends her away to an institution instead of keeping her, and grief renders her into a transcendental halfwit.'
(del.icio.us tags: books funny illustrations )
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10 July 2008 – 11:00 pm
Rhagor | Help us find out more about the mysterious alien “Ghost Slug”
New species found in Wales: 'Unlike most slugs, the Ghost Slug is carnivorous, killing earthworms at night with blade-like teeth, sucking them in like spaghetti. It is also unusual in having no eyes (it is probably blind) and is almost completely white.'
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9 July 2008 – 12:02 am
John Cameron and the History of English Football « More Than Mind Games
Fascinating essay over at MTMG about a footballer called John Cameron and the early history of English football.
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BBC - Ouch! - Features - What’s your Sign Name?
Interesting article about 'sign names' - i.e. the nicknames deaf people give [...]
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7 July 2008 – 11:01 pm
the simpsons house, whycocomagh on Flickr
'sara and i passed this house, and were both like, "what the hell? STOP THE CAR."… it turns out she'd made all of these wooden simpsons cutouts herself, from scratch, as a surprise for her son who was graduating from high school.'
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6 July 2008 – 11:01 pm
Jefferson Bible reveals Founding Father’s view of God, faith - Los Angeles Times
'to summarize his views on Christianity, Thomas Jefferson set to work with scissors, snipping out every miracle and inconsistency he could find in the four Gospels… and reassembled the excerpts into what he believed was a more coherent narrative'
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5 July 2008 – 11:01 pm
Birds from Brazilian Atlantic Forest, Ustream.TV: Birds from Brazilian Atlantic Forest - Live feed
video feed of tanagers and suchlike at a Brazilian birdtable.
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4 July 2008 – 11:01 pm
Zombie Boy | Tattoos | Extreme | Skull Face | Montreal | Rick
'Rick is turning himself into a tattooed zombie. So, of course, we had to meet him.' via Metafilter, I think.
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3 July 2008 – 11:00 pm
What critics of critics of neo-creationists get wrong: a reply to Gordy Slack - The Panda’s Thumb
‘Here is a short list of things we have discovered or confirmed in the last 50 years or so about the origin of life. In my opinion all of these points have reached high enough confidence that they are [...]
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2 July 2008 – 11:00 pm
The Royal Society - Article
Interesting. 'It is widely believed that Charles Darwin avoided publishing his theory of evolution for many years… This essay demonstrates that Darwin's delay is… overwhelmingly contradicted by the historical evidence.' via Carl Zimmer
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1 July 2008 – 11:00 pm
Should an atheist proselytize? « de-conversion
Interesting. 'These stories have shown that there are a number of ways of supporting Christians who make steps towards de-conversion, but in almost every single case it appears that the doubt that led to de-conversion came from within the individual.'
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30 June 2008 – 10:01 pm
Chronotopic Anamorphosis on Vimeo
via kottke, a neat video processing trick: 'The image is digitally manipulated by fragmenting it into horizontal lines and then combining lines from different frames in the display. The result is a distortion of the figures caused by their motion in time'
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28 June 2008 – 1:01 pm
BibliOdyssey: Metoposcopia
The use of forehead wrinkles for character analysis: fabulous illustrations from a C17th manuscript.
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17 June 2008 – 11:01 pm
Language Log » Stress in Supreme Court oral arguments
Interesting: 'We applied automated measurement techniques to recordings of 78 hours of oral arguments from the U.S. Supreme court, in order to look at the (average) effects on pitch and time of primary word stress, secondary stress, and lack of stress.'
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Boomshine
A gently addictive flash [...]