Cool manifesto
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A metaphor too far : Nature News
"Philip Ball asks whether scientists are addicted to using imagery at the cost of misleading the public and themselves."
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The Deep Carbon Observatory: Going underground | The Economist
“Current estimates suggest that half of all the living matter on Earth lives underground, at depths of up to 5km. Some people think the share may be bigger than that. Indeed, there is loose talk of life having originated more than once in the distant past, and of there being entire shadow biospheres of organisms completely unrelated to anything on the surface.”
Read this in an Economist article this morning. Blew my mind. Gotta love it how every time we think we know something, nature throws us a new doozy.
“Shadow Biosphere”
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Epidemiology: Every bite you take : Nature News
A very interesting article about life sensors to measure the "exposome" – the sum total of things we are exposed to. One glaring omission is the mention of folks who already measure so much of their "exposome" and the quantified self trend of measuring more. Such mentions would have made the article more complete.
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Are We in the Middle of a Sixth Mass Extinction? – ScienceNOW
"Look outside of your window. Imagine taking away three-quarters of the living things you see and ask yourself if you want to live in that world."
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How to Grow Your Own Army of Citizen Scientists – ScienceInsider
"Astronomy, the oldest science, is one of the few that still has ample room for citizen scientists. We can't all build particle accelerators or experiment with gene splicing, but anyone can participate here."
About Galaxy Zoo.
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An Infant’s Refined Tongue – ScienceNOW
"Your baby's language skills may surprise you. Before they speak—before they even crawl—infants can distinguish between two languages they've never heard before just by looking at the face of a speaker."
Interesting.
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There is nothing wrong with your TV
You really shouldn’t be concerned with my machinations behind the curtain. I’m just moving sites from one provider to another and merging some other stuff. If all goes well, you won’t even know.
Though these past 24 hours have been full of disruptions. Sorry about that.
All the posts are seemingly intact (merged two old blogs). What I can tell right now is that it seems like I need to futz with getting my images to display again (might need CSS jockeying), reconnecting Delicious, and getting the template and theme closer to where I want it to be.
links for 2011-02-25
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Culturing yeast off of raisins, using the raisins as sugar source. Indeed, sima, a lightly fermented spring drink from Finland, is inoculated with packet yeast, but I think originally was inoculated with the raisins that are part of the recipe.