Our Solar System -- To Scale
pointing to a wonderful website that demonstrates just how big our solar system really is.
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GrrlScientist is an evolutionary biologist, ornithologist, aviculturist, birder and freelance science and nature writer. A native of the Pacific Northwest, she relocated from Seattle to NYC with her parrots after earning a BS in Microbiology (emphasis in Virology) and PhD in Zoology (Ornithology) from the University of Washington. In NYC, she was the Chapman Postdoctoral Fellow at the American Museum of Natural History for two years, pursuing part of her "dream" research project by reconstructing a molecular phylogeny of the parrots of the South Pacific islands. GrrlScientist and her five parrots are currently relocating to Germany, where she will continue writing her blog while also writing a book and learning German. (Meanwhile, her parrots will continue to nibble on her extensive personal library.) If you appreciate GrrlScientist's writing, you can help pay her living expenses by hiring her to "blog" your conference, speak at your club or write articles for your publication (or by clicking on the Paypal button below). If you read an essay on this blog that you especially enjoyed, please nominate it for inclusion in OpenLab2009.
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June 30, 2006
pointing to a wonderful website that demonstrates just how big our solar system really is.
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Category: Streaming videos
A silly video of a British journalist interviewing several members of the Iraqi resistance in the swirling sands near Tikrit.
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June 29, 2006
Category: Evolution
This essay describes an elegant Nature paper that investigates the role of homoploid hybridization in creating a new species of butterfly. (Homoploid hybridization is when the parent species and their hybrid offspring all have the same number of chromosomes).
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June 28, 2006
I finally answer this question .. with a story.
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Category: Streaming videos
a few words of wisdom from the man with a white fence.
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June 27, 2006
it's barfolicious! How to gross out your friends, just in time for the Fourth of July!
Posted by "GrrlScientist" at 11:03 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
this is another one of those fun blog thangs, along with a rejection of a rejection letter that has been in circulation for approximately ten years.
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Category: Harry Potter
Can you predict who will die in the last Harry Potter book?
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June 26, 2006
Category: Birds in the News
With lots of great news stories about birds from around the world, and featuring a gorgeous photograph of lovely pink-colored flamingos.
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June 25, 2006
and now, let's take a little time out to laugh on a truly solemn day.
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