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May 31, 2010
Category: General
Treehugger reports on the work of marine scientists at Brazil's Guaruja Aquarium, who have added a plastic window onto a shark egg so they can watch the fish develop. In the photo above you can see the fetal bamboo shark...
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May 24, 2010
Category: General
It's rare that I blog off topic - there's so much cool science in the world that I don't have much time for anything else. But my departure from Facebook has co-incided with something of a global trend, so I...
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May 19, 2010
Category: Art
In 1926 German illustrator Fritz Kahn drew Der Mensch als Industriepalast, part of a series of artworks reinterpreting the body as a mechanical factory. Now fellow countryman and artist Henning Lederer has updated the the famous image, turning it into...
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May 17, 2010
Category: General
From the Department of Sensible Things That Are Still Quite Funny comes these life size testicles, made with BIOLIKE™ synthetic tissue. Now you can fondle your balls in public without fear of prosecution! Yours for just $115. One happy customer...
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May 13, 2010
Category: General
Over at Evolutionary Genealogy, Leonard Eisenberg has been thinking about how we're related to other animals. Not so much in the evolutionary sense, but in the familial sense. After all, if your cousin is simply the offspring of your parent's...
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May 10, 2010
Category: Art
NPR reports on the discovery of a bee that builds tiny, multi-coloured nests out of flower petals. The rare solitary bee Osmia avoseta creates the cocoons out of a mixture of mud, flower petals and nectar. Each case holds a...
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May 6, 2010
Category: Video
Simple timelapse joy! via The Litter Box...
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May 2, 2010
As huge swells and high winds pounded the hull of the Wasp, their radios picked up a frantic transmission from the tower: "We're breaking up". And with that, Texas Tower 4 and all of its occupants were pulled beneath the waves.
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