Hedwig Pöllöläinen
grrlscientist
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July 11, 2008
tags: West 66th street/Lincoln Center Subway Art, Artemis, Acrobats, Divas and Dancers, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC
Artemis, Acrobats, Divas and Dancers.
Artist: Nancy Spero, 1999. Installed 2004.
West 66th Street/Lincoln Center Subway tile mosaic art #5 as seen at NYC's…
July 11, 2008
tags: researchblogging.org, birdsong, personality traits, mate choice, sexual selection, risk taking, European collared flycatcher, Ficedula albicollis, László Zsolt Garamszegi
Male European collared flycatcher, Ficedula albicollis, singing.
Image: Beijershamn Ãland, 23 May 2004 [link].
Canon EOS…
July 11, 2008
tags: Long-billed Curlew, Numenius americanus, birds, nature, Image of the Day
Long-billed curlew, Numenius americanus, stretching, at Bolivar Flats, Texas. This bird is in breeding plumage.
Image: Joseph Kennedy, 2 July 2008 [larger view].
Nikon D200, Kowa 883 telescope with TSN-PZ camera…
July 11, 2008
tags: researchblogging.org, reciprocal altruism, cooperation, anti-predator behavior, mobbing, birds, pied flycatcher, Ficedula hypoleuca, Indrikis Krams
Male European pied flycatcher, Ficedula hypoleuca, singing.
Skåne, Sweden.
Image: Omar Brännström, 8 May 2005 [link].
Canon EOS 1D Mark II…
July 10, 2008
tags: West 66th street/Lincoln Center Subway Art, Artemis, Acrobats, Divas and Dancers, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC
Artemis, Acrobats, Divas and Dancers.
Artist: Nancy Spero, 1999. Installed 2004.
West 66th Street/Lincoln Center Subway tile mosaic art #4 as seen at NYC's…
July 10, 2008
tags: Long-billed Curlew, Numenius americanus, birds, nature, Image of the Day
Compare this species to the two previous images of the day. The long-billed curlew is a larger relative of the whimbrel.
Long-billed Curlew, Numenius americanus at Bolivar Flats, Texas.
Image: Joseph Kennedy, 2 July…
July 10, 2008
tags: researchblogging.org, melanosomes, plumage color, feather color, fossil preservation, birds, dinosaur, Jakob Vinther
Male Red-bellied woodpecker, Melanerpes carolinus.
Image: Ken Thomas (Wikipedia) [larger view].
When looking at paintings and reconstructions of fossil birds and dinosaurs…
July 9, 2008
tags: researchblogging.org, evolution, flatfish, Amphistium, Heteronectes, transitional fossils, missing link, Matt Friedman
During the development of extant flatfishes, such as this plaice, Pleuronectes platessa, one eye has migrated round the head to lie on the same side as the other. So these…
July 9, 2008
tags: West 66th street/Lincoln Center Subway Art, Artemis, Acrobats, Divas and Dancers, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC
Artemis, Acrobats, Divas and Dancers
Artist: Nancy Spero, 1999. Installed 2004.
West 66th Street/Lincoln Center Subway tile mosaic art #3 as seen at NYC's…
July 9, 2008
tags: Whimbrel, Numenius phaeopus, birds, nature, Image of the Day
Whimbrel, Numenius phaeopus at Bolivar Flats, Texas.
Image: Joseph Kennedy, 2 July 2008 [larger view].
Nikon D200, Kowa 883 telescope with TSN-PZ camera eyepiece 1/1000s f/8.0 at 1000.0mm iso400.
July 8, 2008
tags: researchblogging.org, female scientists, science publishing, double-blind review, single-blind review, cultural observation, gender bias, sexism, feminism
A microbiologist at work.
Image: East Bay AWIS.
A few months ago, a controversy occurred in the blogosphere regarding whether…
July 8, 2008
tags: West 66th street/Lincoln Center Subway Art, Artemis, Acrobats, Divas and Dancers, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC
Artemis, Acrobats, Divas and Dancers
Artist: Nancy Spero, 1999. Installed 2004.
West 66th Street/Lincoln Center Subway tile mosaic art #2 [Detail 2] as seen at…
July 8, 2008
tags: Whimbrel, Numenius phaeopus, birds, nature, Image of the Day
I love shorebirds, and I miss seeing them every year. Besides being beautiful to look at and fascinating to watch, shorebirds remind me of my travels to Japan, where I saw 17 new species of birds (all shorebirds, and all in breeding…
July 8, 2008
Have any of you started a project that you thought would take ten minutes to complete, only to find that the project has morphed into a huge and tangled event that has taken over your entire life? I am trapped in the middle of such a project right now.
[Image source: Half the deck].
This project…
July 8, 2008
tags: The Jedi Gym, The Quiddich Gym, humor, silliness, streaming video
This is funny -- Darth Vader drops in to the first Jedi Gym to ever be started in the world, and he ruins everything. The survivors, though, refuse to admit defeat: they gather together and start a Quiddich Gym. Harry Potter…
July 7, 2008
tags: West 66th street/Lincoln Center Subway Art, Artemis, Acrobats, Divas and Dancers, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC
Artemis, Acrobats, Divas and Dancers.
Artist: Nancy Spero, 1999. Installed 2004.
West 66th Street/Lincoln Center Subway tile mosaic art #2 [Detail 1] as seen…
July 7, 2008
tags: Eastern Kingbird, Tyrannus tyrannus, birds, nature, Image of the Day
Eyes on the Prize.
Eastern Kingbird, Tyrannus tyrannus, eyes a butterfly.
Image: Dave Rintoul, July 2008 [larger view].
July 7, 2008
tags: Birds in the News, BirdNews, ornithology, birds, avian, newsletter
Canyon Towhee, Pipilo fuscus, in Chaco Canyon.
Image: Dave Rintoul, June 2008 [larger view].
News of Birds in Science
According to an article that was just published in the journal BioScience, penguin populations are…
July 7, 2008
tags: eggshell carvings, art, Taiwanese artist, streaming video
I think of eggshells as beautiful natural objects, but a Taiwanese artist sees them as raw materials for his artwork -- even though this video is in Chinese, I think it is fascinating nonetheless [3:23]
July 6, 2008
tags: West 66th street/Lincoln Center Subway Art, Artemis, Acrobats, Divas and Dancers, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC
Most of the artworks at this station are too large to photograph, so I have broken them up into smaller pictures, all of which should be correctly labeled as "…
July 6, 2008
tags: emergency pet care, hospitals, companion pet issues
Elektra is one of the survivors.
My companion female Solomon Islands eclectus parrot, Eclectus roratus solomonensis.
Image: GrrlScientist, 2 April 2008 [larger view].
I want to talk about something that has bothered me ever since I…
July 6, 2008
tags: English Elm Tree, Ulmus procera, tree bark, Image of the Day
Bark of the English elm tree, Ulmus procera.
Image: GrrlScientist 2008 [larger view].
July 6, 2008
tags: Birdbooker Report, bird books, natural history books, ecology books
"One cannot have too many good bird books"
--Ralph Hoffmann, Birds of the Pacific States (1927).
Here's this week's issue of the Birdbooker Report by Ian "Birdbooker" Paulsen, which lists ecology, environment, natural…
July 5, 2008
tags: Lincoln Center Subway Art, Artemis, Acrobats, Divas and Dancers, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC
At last, a new subway platform for you to enjoy looking at!
This station was recently renovated with a "retro look" makeover, complete with new plaques and tablets in the…
July 5, 2008
Since it is a holiday in the USA and my traffic was down, I spent the morning and afternoon doing things, like laundry, which are terribly boring but necessary. After I escaped the laundromat, I ended up roaming the subways and began planning a route so I could photograph the tile mosaic artworks…
July 5, 2008
tags: White Ash Tree, Fraxinus americana, tree bark, Image of the Day
Bark of the white ash tree, Fraxinus americana.
Image: GrrlScientist 2008 [larger view].
July 4, 2008
tags: Jesse Helms, politics, rethuglicans
Image: Orphaned (please contact me so I can properly attribute this image to its photographer).
This morning, I learned that America is celebrating its independence from one of the politicians whose goal was to ensure that this country was a colder,…
July 4, 2008
tags: companion parrots, Solomon Islands eclectus parrot, Eclectus roratus solomonensis, hawk-headed parrot, red fan parrot, Deroptyus accipitrinus accipitrinus, Friday Parrot Blogging
Elektra (left), a 5-year old female Solomon Islands eclectus parrot, Eclectus roratus solomonensis, and
Orpheus…
July 4, 2008
tags: maidenhair tree, Ginkgo biloba, tree bark, Image of the Day
Bark of the maidenhair tree, Ginkgo biloba.
Image: GrrlScientist 2008 [larger view].
July 4, 2008
I have lived with companion animals for my entire life. Cats, dogs, a variety of bird species ranging from finches to chickens, parrots and lories, tropical fish, goldfish and koi, hermit crabs, ants, stick insects, golden hamsters, dwarf hamsters, mice, rats, guinea pigs, bunnies .. and that's…