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Good video about those climate change emails. via Pharyngula
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Interesting stuff: 'European birds called blackcaps follow a different "evolutionary path" if they spend the winter eating food put out for them in UK gardens.'
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"These large gummed labels – known as cloth tickets, shippers tickets, or bolt tickets – were attached to bales of printed cotton cloth for export from Britain (read 'Manchester' in many cases). They were designed by British artists who depended on information from company agents in the various territories for subjects that were intended to be appealing for their markets.
Most of these probably date from around the 1920s to the 1950s (but I could be wrong) and were intended for the African market. "
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Interesting stuff — no doubt the Americans would say one-sided, but nonetheless. The more I read about the US military in Iraq the more I get the sense that it had become dysfunctional; a kind of inward-looking, bureaucratic self-serving entity semi-detached from the US government/politics. No doubt there are plenty of thoughtful officers who have learned some hard lessons over the past few years in Iraq and Afghanistan, though. For all I know they're applying them already.
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Origami money hats.
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'enjoy this mesmerizing, behind the scenes (and skin) look at a mouth talking. Speech researcher Christine Ericsdotter captured the image at 50 frames/second over 20 seconds with a quick-snap x-ray camera.'
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As someone with bad pastry karma (and hot hands), I just have to try this pastry recipe. '… I was expecting her to say, "You begin by taking some cold butter and work it into the flour. But she started by saying, "You take butter. And you take water. You put them in a bowl. Then you put it in the oven for 20 minutes and let everything boil until…" which, of course, stopped me mid-swallow of my Côte du Rhone. I almost started choking.'