April 12, 2009
The Galapagos National Park says La Cumbre volcano began spewing lava, gas and smoke on uninhabited Fernandina Island on Saturday after four years of inactivity.
The park says in a statement the eruption is not a threat to people living on nearby Isabela Island.
But it says lava flowing to the sea…
April 12, 2009
"ubuntu" is a southern and/or eastern Bantu word ... one of those words that is found in a number of languages and that no one is quite sure of the origin of. But this does not mean that it can't be pronounced correctly.
There are very straight forward rules of pronunciation for Bantu words in…
April 12, 2009
I bet you didn't imagine that I would have an Easter story. Well, I've got one and it consists of nothing more than a mercifully short dialog between me and my daughter when she was very little:
"Dad, do you believe in the Easter Bunny?"
"Well, what do you think? Do you believe in the Easter…
April 12, 2009
While you are waiting for the easter bunny:
April 12, 2009
By design you must log onto your session in Linux. This is a recently added feature in Windows, nothing more than a kludge. The following can not happen in Linux:
Hat tip: Natalie
(Here's the picture without the caption)
April 11, 2009
I and the Bird #97: Dead Letter is at the Great Auk ....
April 11, 2009
One afternoon I was sitting by the hearth writing notes on the morning's data collection, and a cassette player was running nearby. The Beatles White Album was on. Happiness is a Warm Gun was playing.
Lengotu, an Efe man I had been working with, who had made the claim to be a rain shaman (which…
April 10, 2009
There are a lot of ways to do this, but I just ran across one that may be just what some people need. This is an Open Access book called The Linux Starter Pack produced by Linux Format (which is an over-priced but entertaining Linux magazine).
The "starter pack" is a giant PDF file, 130 pages,…
April 10, 2009
Thou SHALT NOT believe all thou art told.
Thou SHALT seek knowledge and truth constantly.
Thou SHALT educate thy fellow man in the Laws of Science.
Thou SHALT NOT forget the atrocities committed in the name of god.
Thou SHALT leave valuable contributions for future generations.
Thou SHALT live in…
April 10, 2009
In front of Stanford University's Main Quad, biologist Tom McFadden raps for a video camera. The flat bill of his Toronto Blue Jays baseball cap sits on the white rims of his sunglasses as he bounces his head to the beat. The video then cuts to him gesticulating in front of a projection screen that…
April 10, 2009
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
In a vaguely related matter ...
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
April 10, 2009
Marc Morano does not think global warming is anything to worry about, and he brags about his confrontations with those who do.
For example, Mr. Morano said he once spotted former Vice President Al Gore on an airplane returning from a climate conference in Bali. Mr. Gore was posing for photos with…
April 10, 2009
Evil Plan (tm)!
Your objective is simple: Soul Accumulation.
Your motive is a little bit more complex: Revenge
Stage One
To begin your plan, you must first blackmail a senator. This will cause the world to swallow nervously, confused by your arrival. Who is this evil genius? Where did they come…
April 10, 2009
... Number 88 is here at Liberal England
April 9, 2009
... is here, at Quiche Moraine. Please go and visit this blog carnival, then visit all the sites pointed to by the blog carnival, read them, submit them all to social networking sites, enter them in blogspheric contests, and so on and so forth. Because that's how we do things in The Blogosphere…
April 9, 2009
... isn't just for plants anymore. It's a new blog here at the Blorg, a Scienceblogs Dot Com production.
The internet is home to a wealth of captivating science images, from the many microscopic components of a cell to the remote corners of the universe captured by Hubble. On Photo Synthesis, we…
April 9, 2009
I heard an interesting story today from someone involved in heart surgery research, a story about the first battery powered pacemaker to be used on a human. I don't know if any aspect of this is apocryphal or not, but I can tell you that the source is pretty reliable, and parts of this story are…
April 9, 2009
Voters in a small town in ... Missouri have re-elected their popular mayor to a fourth term, several weeks after he died of a heart attack.
Harry Stonebraker died at the age of 69 in March ...
He won by a landslide, securing 90% of the vote in the 723-population town.
Winfield [town] will appoint…
April 9, 2009
Negotiations are continuing for the release of an American captain held by Somali pirates in a lifeboat in the Indian Ocean off the Horn of Africa.
He was taken from cargo ship Maersk Alabama after it was briefly seized by pirates a day earlier.
A US warship on anti-pirate patrol in the high-risk…
April 8, 2009
Discover Magazine Dot Com, which has been expanding its blogospheric presence recently, has just reached the one million plus monthly page view mark, having shown a steady expansion since last year. Since Science Blogs has also been growing (though I'm guessing much more slowly since we are not…
April 8, 2009
Star Trek A-Team Mashup
Hat Tip Miss Cellania
April 8, 2009
I havn't served up any real Linux Jingoism in several hours, so here's a dose. From Ben Zvan via facebook, we have YAhead10 list of why you should use Linux. Here.
And, for you Windows users, here's a little item on Windows Explorer.
April 8, 2009
Simply harnessing the wind in relatively shallow waters -- the most accessible and technically feasible sites for offshore turbines -- could produce at least 20% of the power demand for most coastal states, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said, unveiling a report by the Minerals Management Service…
April 8, 2009
For the first time in 200 years, a ship of the sea sailing under a US flag has been taken by pirates. And, in an unusual move, the ship's crew went ahead and took the ship back.
"It's reported that one pirate is on board under crew control - the other three were trying to flee."
Reports suggest…
April 8, 2009
You may remember this earlier announcement. Here is the update on event, this time bilingually.
Premios Puño Arriba 2009
Anoche en el Teatro Rivera en la ciudad de La Habana se realizo la ceremonia de premiación Puños Arriba, producido localmente por el grupo Matraka. Contó con espectáculos…
April 7, 2009
From John Lynch Via Twitter:
PROVO, Utah -- Thousands of issues of the Daily Universe student newspaper at Brigham Young University were pulled from newsstands because a photo caption on the front page misidentified leaders of the Mormon church as apostates instead of apostles.
source
April 7, 2009
Although they are mostly good at basic arithmetic.
Scientists from the universities of Padova and Trento demonstrated chicks' ability to add and subtract objects as they were moved behind two screens.
Lucia Regolin, an author of the study said [they] "performed basic arithmetic" to work out which…
April 7, 2009
Those people are steeped in bling. Check it out:
Fearing the appearance of their well appointed properties on the Web site would attract criminals scouting for burglary targets, villagers in Broughton, north of London, summoned the police after spotting the car.
The car being the Goolge Camera…
April 7, 2009
Perchlorate, a hazardous chemical in rocket fuel, has been found at potentially dangerous levels in powdered infant formula, according to a study (pdf) by a group of Centers for Disease Control scientists. The study, published last month by The Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental…
