Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Oysters Kinkiest Creatures Of The Sea
Of course you've heard that they are aphrodisiacs -- but they can also change gender and produce several thousand varieties of sperm and eggs.
Watch The Story of India (Part 1)
Part One of a two episodes documentary on India and the prehistoric civilizations of the Indus Valley. Divx required to watch this full length video.
Physical Examination of A Patient With Musculoskeletal Probl
A knowledge of anatomy is necessary to identify the primary site(s) of involvement and differentiate articular from nonarticular disorders.
Watch The Story of India (Part 2)
Part 2 of an Amazing Documentary about the history of India and the civilizations of the Indus valley. Divx required to watch this full length video
Tovatech Announces the Kern Innovative Analytical Balance
The new KERN ABT Analytical Balance is now available. Using a single-cell weighing system, the semi-micro ABT precision balance offers the highest performance in the industry.
Tovatech Announces the Kern Innovative Analytical Balance
The new KERN ABT Analytical Balance is now available. Using a single-cell weighing system, the semi-micro ABT precision balance offers the highest performance in the industry.
Why Brains Crave Beneficial Copy
Recent neurological research reveals some fascinating things about how our brains react to anticipated rewards. It seems that a message that focuses on rewards can trigger the same brain activity that results from actually enjoying the reward itself.
Scientists Blogging about Biotechs
For those science junkies out there, scientists have started to take a good hard look at the science business and are writing about it in a way that everyone can understand. From drugs made in Duckweed, to scary deadly Staph infections to why taking Vytorin isn't a bad thing for your heart, it's all here.
199th birthday: Darwin Day Celebration
The Darwin Day Celebration is an international effort that is now an official program of the Institute for Humanist Studies. On or near Feb. 12, people around the world celebrate science and humanity on the anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth.
Best Aviation Courses : What Aspiring Pilot Desires?
All of us dream of flying high. Some of us literally dream of flying high. If you have been looking up at the skies with a desire to fly one of those lovely and powerful machines, then becoming a pilot is probably your calling.
Scientists Blogging about Biotechs
For those science junkies out there, scientists have started to take a good hard look at the science business and are writing about it in a way that everyone can understand. From drugs made in Duckweed, to scary deadly Staph infections to why taking Vytorin isn't a bad thing for your heart, it's all here.
Osteoguru
This blog deals with topics related to human evolution, human variation, science, and general human osteology.
Scientists working on drug relieving fatigue after exercise
Scientists are developing a drug which relieves fatigue after strenuous exercise - and it could benefit heart failure patients as well.
Gorillas Photographed Mating Face-to-Face -- A First
A pair of wild western lowland gorillas in Africa have surprised researchers by engaging in face-to-face mating, the Wildlife Conservation Society announced today. Though the behavior had been observed before in mountain gorillas, it had never before been seen in the lowland gorilla subspecies—and had never before been photographed in the wild.
Fast Forces of Attraction
We form first impressions of another's attractiveness in a tenth of a second —wit, voice, charisma, class, and body language—play a part.
Register Your Emergency Beacon
Around the world...around the clock...NOAA proudly stands watch. As an integral part of worldwide search and rescue, NOAA operates the Search And Rescue Satellite Aided Tracking (SARSAT) System to detect and locate mariners, aviators, and recreational enthusiasts in distress almost anywhere in the world at anytime and in almost any condition.
Top 10 Useless Limbs and Organs
The tailbone (coccyx), male breast tissue and nipples, the appendix and the like.
Earthshots: Sattelite Images of Environmental Change
Before / after shots of: agriculture, city, desert, disaster, forest, geology, water, wildlife.
Ear-Piercing Sirens Used to Drive Teens Away
The so-called "Mosquito" device emits high-frequency noise which is audible — and annoying — to young ears, but generally not heard by people over 20.
The Worlds Largest Ocean Carnivore Eats Great Whites
Adult males can grow up to 60 feet long and weigh 40 tons (read - 80,000 pounds!). Males are usually about twice as large as the females. They have a pretty long life span, about as long as people, living up to 70 years.
Earthshots: Sattelite Images of Environmental Change
Before / after shots of: agriculture, city, desert, disaster, forest, geology, water, wildlife.
Seeing the hidden fresco
Spread over a 16 m-wide wall in the Palazzo Vecchio town hall in Florence, Leonardo da Vinci's The Battle of Anghiari is a magnificent fresco depicting two horse riders in combat. Unfortunately no one can see these paintings: they are all hidden beneath a layer of plaster.
Physicists reveal superconducting surprise
MIT physicists have taken a step toward understanding the puzzling nature of high-temperature superconductors, materials that conduct electricity with no resistance at temperatures well above absolute zero.
The Outrageous Slings and Arrows of James Watson
We've waited long enough: When will Seed Media Group get rid of this arrogant racist and sexist asshole as its science advisor?
New Mini-Pterodactyl Among Smallest Known
The mini-pterosaur, dubbed Nemicolopterus crypticus, had a wingspan of only 10 inches (25 centimeters)—about the size of a modern sparrow. (See pictures of the tiny flying reptile.)
Crested ''beach bum'' dinosaur found in Mexico
U.S., Mexican and Canadian scientists on Tuesday announced the discovery of Velafrons coahuilensis, a duck-billed dinosaur that lived about 7 million years before a big rock from space wiped out the dinosaurs and many other creatures.
Genesis: literal and against evolution, or not?
What does Genesis really mean? Does it care about evolution? How screwed up is the first book of the Bible? One man's conclusions.
7000 years old. Egypt's Earliest Farming Village Found
The 7,000-year-old farming-village site includes evidence of domesticated animals and crops—providing a major breakthrough in understanding the enigmatic people of the Neolithic, or late Stone Age, period and their lives long before the appearance of the Egyptian pharaohs......
A Depression Switch? How surgery can cure depression...
A radical new surgery has shown promise in completely changing the lives of severely depressed individuals. Patients who were once completely beyond hope may now have a chance to live normal, fulfilling lives. This has to be one of the least publicized but most fascinate breakthroughs in years...
Mother's antibodies tied to development of regressive autism
"Scientists have identified a potential new cause of autism in children, by examining what happens in the womb before a baby is born." "This is one of the first studies to identify immunological factors in mothers that could be linked to autism in the very earliest stages of life,"
California Spiny Lobsters research project
I just love to hear about all the different ways an everyday person can work with scientists to do research that produces results that uncover trends, discover new behaviors, and any number of fascinating conclusions. To me, as a wannabe scientist, I find the field work more enjoyable anyway than sitting in a lab crunching numbers.
Does Electricity Have A Shadow?
I was pondering something earlier and can't decide what the answer is. You know when you see electricity arcing between two points? - Well, if you were looking at this from above and you could see the shadow of the two points cast by the sun, should you be able to see the shadow of the electricity? What say you?
A Fun Online Game, Eagle Eyes [pic]
This educational game focuses on teaching you to see differences between two nearly identical images.
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