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November 30, 2008

Australiana #5 - Stingrays

Category: Fish

Following last week's parrotfish, here's another underwater snap taken at the Whitsunday Islands. This is a bluespot stingray, and it was later joined by a second individual. More pics and a video beneath the fold......

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November 29, 2008

Attack of the killer mice - introduced rodents eat seabird chicks alive

Category: Conservation

As Charles Darwin learned several centuries ago, islands are havens for evolution. Newcomers to these isolated worlds find themselves unshackled from the predators that dogged them on the mainland. They celebrate their freedom by diversifying into a great variety...

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November 28, 2008

Why blog? The Meme returns...

Category: Personal

For some reason, I've only just discovered the navel-gazing blogger meme that started at Nature Network a few weeks ago. But I've written up a shed-load of science this week and I'm feeling lazy and introspective. So better late than...

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November 27, 2008

Pain in the eye of the beholder

Category: Perception

You can control the severity of pain and swelling in an aching hand by making it seem larger or smaller.

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November 26, 2008

Heroes in a half-shell show how turtles evolved

Category: Evolution

The earliest fossil turtle ever discovered only had half a shell covering its underside.

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Clean thoughts can soften moral judgments

Category: Psychology

Throughout our language, the vocabulary of physical cleanliness is also used to describe moral cleanliness. We describe saints as pure and thieves as dirty; consciences can be clean and sins can be washed away. But more and more, psychological studies...

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November 25, 2008

Fossilised embryos are the work of bacteria

Category: Bacteria

Fossil embryos were formed by bacteria, growing over dead cells and replacing their organic matter with minerals

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November 24, 2008

Faulty connections responsible for inherited face-blindness

Category: Neuroscience

An inherited inability to recognise faces is caused by faulty white matter tracts linking face-processing brain regions

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November 22, 2008

Australiana #4 - Parrotfish

Category: Fish

Buying an underwater case for my digital camera was an excellent decision. This shot was taken at Pickford Reef in the Whitsunday Islands....

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November 21, 2008

Parasites keep red tides at bay

Category: Parasites

The dinoflagellate algae that cause harmful red tides are normally kept on a leash by parasites.

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