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Category: Science
Magnetic Movie from Semiconductor on Vimeo. Last week, at the imagine science film festival in New York, Magnetic Movie won the Nature Scientific Merit Award: In 2009, the Nature Scientific Merit Award went to the film judged to be not...
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Category: Biology
Since I posted last night, DrugMonkey, Dr. Free-Ride, and the Intersection have also checked in with their POVs on this issue. I particularly liked this comment from Dr. Free-Ride: We get to foot the bill for the effects of other...
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Category: Blogosphere
Do drug addicts "deserve" our research money?
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Category: Blogosphere
*That's the Amazon rainforest - not Amazon.com! Check out this interview from MAKE with Google's Rebecca Moore, who helped an Amazon chief use Google Earth to fight illegal logging....
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 7:17 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Artists & Art
Heartbreaking photos of albatross chicks, by photographer Chris Jordan: These photographs of albatross chicks were made just a few weeks ago on Midway Atoll, a tiny stretch of sand and coral near the middle of the North Pacific. The...
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Category: Artists & Art
Good and bad on the Web: Open Access Week, asynchronous communication, a pictorial history of the internet, the Wellcome Image Awards 2009, and PopTech 09
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Category: Yikes!
Has your week been like this, too? I'm just checking. . . "Fish in a squirrel suit" by Slightly Curious. Via Regretsy....
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Category: Biology
Via Inventorspot: Hello Kitty goes anatomical, and we discover she even has bows on her guts. Yikes! But seriously - the second, faux-ivory Hello Kitty looks a little familiar. According to Inventorspot, you can choose from regular style or...
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Category: Blogosphere
Jared Diamond responds, call for a National Ocean Policy, Sciart in the Bay, Armed with Science, a new NIDA media guide, and Stephen Fry on coping with depression
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Category: Artists & Art
From Inhabitat: Artist Brandon Jon Blommaert's recycled trash robots (yes, they're real sculptures) lay waste to Photoshopped landscapes. Check out his flickr page for more - and a "making of" series of photos showing how he built these steampunky...
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