May 24, 2012
discoverynews: CSI: Kenya - Forensics Lab to Solve Animal Crimes Kenyan crime fighters will soon have the tools to solve hippo whodunits, meerkat murders and other wildlife crimes. The American Museum of Natural History recently donated $178,000 to Kenya Wildlife Services (KWS) for the creation of a forensic and genetic laboratory. keep reading IMAGE: Elephant killed By poachers, Voi area, Kenya (Ina96, Wikimedia Commons)

discoverynews:

CSI: Kenya - Forensics Lab to Solve Animal Crimes

Kenyan crime fighters will soon have the tools to solve hippo whodunits, meerkat murders and other wildlife crimes. The American Museum of Natural History recently donated $178,000 to Kenya Wildlife Services (KWS) for the creation of a forensic and genetic laboratory.

keep reading

IMAGE: Elephant killed By poachers, Voi area, Kenya (Ina96, Wikimedia Commons)

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May 22, 2012
kqedscience: SETI’s leading astronomer, Jill Tarter, is retiring“She will devote her full time to expanding the institute’s research and acquiring a multimillion-dollar endowment for its future, she said Monday.”Learn more about Jill Tarter in the KQED QUEST story, “SETI: The New Search for ET”.

kqedscience:

SETI’s leading astronomer, Jill Tarter, is retiring

“She will devote her full time to expanding the institute’s research and acquiring a multimillion-dollar endowment for its future, she said Monday.”

Learn more about Jill Tarter in the KQED QUEST story, “SETI: The New Search for ET”.

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May 21, 2012
Memory Loss Blues

I’m sad

I can’t remember why

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May 18, 2012
JPMorgan's Troubles And The Price Of Eggs

npr:

JPMorgan Chase says it lost billions of dollars trading “synthetic derivatives.” Do these complex Wall Street transactions ever do anything to help average people? To answer that question, we consider the case of an imaginary company, Chickens LLC, that’s looking to grow.

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April 28, 2012

LHC Animation!  Scientific frontiersmanship in an eight minute computer rendered cartoon.

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April 2, 2012
"[O]ne of its first written appearances came in 1883, in the American magazine, which referred to “the social ‘dude’ who affects English dress and the English drawl”. The teenage American republic was already a growing power, with the economy booming and the conquest of the West well under way. But Americans in cities often aped the dress and ways of Europe, especially Britain. Hence dude as a dismissive term: a dandy, someone so insecure in his Americanness that he felt the need to act British."

— The etymology of “dude,” a fine addition to the origins of other famous modern words. (via explore-blog)

(Source: , via npr)

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March 30, 2012
Steve Martin on Earl Scruggs (RIP)

Typically funny and heartwarming and full of fantastic anecdotes, highlights of which include Earl’s antiwar stance, (an aberration at the time for country stars) & Ravi Shankar’s captivation w/ the Colonel.

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March 24, 2012
oldhollywood: Claudia Cardinale in 8 1/2 (1963, dir. Federico Fellini)

oldhollywood:

Claudia Cardinale in 8 1/2 (1963, dir. Federico Fellini)

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March 14, 2012

In this, the second section of Bill Moyers’ interview with Isaac Asimov, a glorious and perpetual learning strategy is laid out by the great scifi scribe, after demonstrating remarkable prescience with regards to the internet.  This is the better excerpt, but the best quote comes from the next and final section of the interview: “Science is not an absolute purveyor of truth, it is a mechanism.”

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March 2, 2012

Headed to the airport…

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