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Category: Photos of Interest
It's not photoshopped, and it really was for the Windows 7 launch. The picture was taken in Sietes, Spain, which had been decorated for an advertisement for the event. In point of fact, the people of Sietes are not a...
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Category: Chatter
In general, I try to be respectful of cultural groups, even ones that are rather aberrant. Somehow, though, I find it exceedingly difficult to muster any sympathy or respect for Scientology. By now, you probably have heard that Scientologists were...
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Category: Photos of Interest
The Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photography competition winners have been announced. (The spelling, Environnement, is correct; it's a French company.) The competition is operated by the Natural History Museum (London) and BBC Wildlife Magazine, sponsored by Veolia Environmental Services. The overall...
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Category: Photos of Interest
Sometimes I think I have difficult patients. Then I saw this: Yes, it is a gorilla in a CT scanner. The poor animal had mastoiditis; the scan was used prior to surgery. The surgery was successful. See The Big Picture...
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Category: Humor
The people of Obama are selling jellyfish candy. Really. The photo shows a diver next to a specimen of Nomura's jellyfish, Nemopilema nomurai. These creatures occasionally swarm off the coast of Japan, where they are a nuisance. Some creative souls...
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Category: Psychiatry
Poets on Prozac is the short title of a book by psychiatrist-poet Richard M. Berlin, MD. The full title is: Poets on Prozac: Mental Illness, Treatment, and the Creative Process. Berlin was an associate professor of psychiatry at the University...
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Category: Armchair Musings
Botanical names drive me nuts, sometimes. Every plant that is worth anything has many names. The supposed gold standard, the (Latin) Linnaean taxonomical name, gets changed every so often. So there is no constancy. You'd think it would be easier...
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Category: Photos of Interest
The Knowsley Safari Park wants their visitors to know that the babbons are smart. They have figured out how to open car-top cargo carriers. This is not actually a candid photo. It was staged, in order to educate the visitors...
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Category: Photos of Interest
We grow catnip in the garden outside the home-office window. Our cat likes to lay in front of the window, and stare wistfully at the catnip. But today, he saw something unexpected. The neighbor's cat was laying in the catnip....
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Category: Photos of Interest
Went for a Sunday drive. Saw this: White Sands National Monument Drove a little farther, saw this: Odocoileus hemionus You might have guessed, I did not take the first picture. It is a view from Earth orbit. The second picture,...
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