Hedwig Pöllöläinen
grrlscientist
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February 14, 2008
tags: valentine's day, scientist valentines, holidays, holidaze, e-cards
Since I have you to wish me a happy valentine's day, I thought I'd share a selection of scientist valentines with you, so a new one will pop up every two hours! I hope you like them! (Okay, this is the last one).
Orphaned…
February 14, 2008
tags: valentine's day, scientist valentines, holidays, holidaze, e-cards
Since I have you to wish me a happy valentine's day, I thought I'd share a selection of scientist valentines with you, so a new one will pop up every two hours! I hope you like them!
Thanks to Ironic Sans.
February 14, 2008
tags: valentine's day, scientist valentines, holidays, holidaze, e-cards
Since I have you to wish me a happy valentine's day, I thought I'd share a selection of scientist valentines with you, so a new one will pop up every two hours! I hope you like them!
Thanks to Gia's Blog.
February 14, 2008
tags: mandles, gifts for men, valentine's day, streaming video
Don't know what to get your man for Valentine's Day? How about Mandles®, the candles made for men with scents like "Hardware Store", "A1 Steak Sauce", "Burrito Fart" and "Chuck Norris Sweat" [1:52]
February 14, 2008
tags: valentine's day, scientist valentines, holidays, holidaze, e-cards
Since I have you to wish me a happy valentine's day, I thought I'd share a selection of scientist valentines with you, so a new one will pop up every two hours! I hope you like them!
Thanks to Ironic Sans.
February 13, 2008
tags: blog carnivals, Carnival of Education
The 158th edition of the Carnival of Education is finally here! Yippee!!
February 13, 2008
tags: blog carnivals, Carnival of Cities
The 13 February edition of the Carnival of Cities is now available for you to read and enjoy. This is the blog carnival where you can tell us about the city you live in anywhere in the world. Since they need hosts for some of the upcoming editions, I am…
February 13, 2008
tags: blog carnivals, Feminist Carnival
The 53rd edition of the Feminist Carnival is now available for you to read and enjoy. I think the host blog, Uncool; In Vino Veritas is quite interesting, so you should plan to stick around for a look after you've read the carnival links.
February 13, 2008
tags: researchblogging.org, evolution, bird-dinosaur split, dinosaurs, birds, rocks-versus-clocks, fossil record, molecular clocks
The first feathered dinosaur fossil found in China -- Sinosauropteryx.
The feathers can be seen in the dark line running along the specimen's back.
Image: Mick…
February 13, 2008
tags: ducks, birds, photography, subway art, AMNH, NYC, NYCLife
Black-Bellied Whistling-Ducks, Dendrocygna autumnalis,
as portrayed in tiles on the walls of the NYC uptown subway stop (A-B-C)
at 81st and Central Park West. (ISO, no zoom, no flash).
Image: GrrlScientist 2008. [wallpaper size].…
February 13, 2008
tags: shark, elasmobranch, great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias, Image of the Day
This is the most amazing wildlife image I've ever seen. If you don't agree with me, then you have to show me what's more amazing than this!
Kayaking with a Great White Shark, Carcharodon carcharias.
Image:…
February 13, 2008
tags: luminescent marine animals, Deep Sea, Deep Blue, streaming video
Scenes and music are from the movie "Deep Blue", rearranged to make this little video, which shows mostly luminescent creatures that are living in the deep sea. These animals are bioluminescent, but to see that, you'd have to…
February 12, 2008
tags: Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Living Bird magazine
The quarterly magazine, Living Bird, that is published by the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, is now available online for free. It includes stories (some are "web only"), streaming video and lots of wonderful images for you to enjoy.
February 12, 2008
tags: blog carnivals, Carnival of Speculative Fiction
The 1st edition of the new blog carnival, Carnival of Speculative Fiction, is now available for you to read and enjoy. They included a piece that I wrote, so of course, I am pleased.
February 12, 2008
tags: Darwin, Darwin's Birthday, images
The Definitive Darwin.
Image: The Nonist.
A century and a half after Darwin's most important work was published, people still seem to have a hard time wrapping their minds around its implications, or are made nervous and upset by them. The authors at The…
February 12, 2008
tags: giraffe weevil, Trachelophorus giraffa, photography, subway art, AMNH, NYC, NYCLife
A giraffe weevil, Trachelophorus giraffa,
as portrayed in tiles on the walls of the NYC uptown subway stop (A-B-C)
at 81st and Central Park West. (ISO, no zoom, no flash).
Image: GrrlScientist 2008. […
February 12, 2008
tags: birding, online games, eagle eyes, Audubon Society
Eagle Eyes is a fun online game that focuses on teaching you to see minor differences between two seemingly identical images, such as those shown above. I earned my "Eagle Eyes" ranking (25/25) and am going to try more demanding versions…
February 12, 2008
tags: James Watson, racism, sexism, genetic engineering, seed media group, scienceblogs, Adam Bly
James Watson, 1962 Nobel Prize winner
for co-discovering the structure of DNA along with
Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins.
Yesterday, Adam Bly, founder, CEO and Editor-in-Chief of Seed Media Group…
February 12, 2008
tags: birds, Greater Sage-Grouse, Centrocercus urophasianus, ornithology, Image of the Day
Okay, I have to brag a little bit. I have been invited to Manhattan, Kansas, to go birding with Dave Rintoul and his ornithology students for one week at the end of March. I am almost beside myself with…
February 12, 2008
tags: Egg in a bottle, air pressure, streaming video
I was reading the New Scientist book last night, called How to Fossilize Your Hamster and this was one of the very experiments I read about, while wishing I was in a pub instead of my bed (although I would instead be making Tia Maria and cream…
February 11, 2008
tags: beetle, insect, photography, subway art, AMNH, NYC, NYCLife
The tiger beetle, Cicindela formosa,
as portrayed in tiles on the walls of the NYC uptown subway stop (A-B-C)
at 81st and Central Park West. (ISO, no zoom, no flash).
Image: GrrlScientist 2008. [wallpaper size].
Read more about…
February 11, 2008
I am so frustrated. Today is, in effect, another day wasted at the hospital, trying to get my meds. Except today, they informed me that they want a bazillion pieces of paper from me so they know how to "stabilize my fee scale." Of course, this required me to wait for hours in many many lines, just…
February 11, 2008
tags: birds, Canvasback, Aythya valisineria, ornithology, Image of the Day
Okay, I have to brag a little bit. I have been invited to Manhattan, Kansas, to go birding with Dave Rintoul and his ornithology students for one week at the end of March. I am almost beside myself with excitement right now…
February 11, 2008
tags: Birds in the News, BirdNews, ornithology, birds, avian, newsletter
The White-crested Elaenia, Elaenia albiceps, on Texas' South Padre Island.
Image appears here with the kind permission of the photographer, Erik Breden, who retains the copyright to the image [larger view and More pictures…
February 11, 2008
tags: Egg in a bottle, air pressure, streaming video
This is an amusing video demonstration of how to get an egg into a bottle (and then, how to get it out again) without breaking anything -- neither the egg, nor the bottle, nor anything in your parents' kitchen [2:18]
February 10, 2008
I am really excited; I have been working on tomorrow's Birds in the News and this issue is very special because I have managed to get an image and sound file of the White-crested Elaenia, Elaenia albiceps, that is currently in Texas, on South Padre Island. This is the first North American sighting…
February 10, 2008
tags: earth, photography, subway art, AMNH, NYC, NYCLife
Journey to the center of the earth, view #3,
as portrayed in tiles on the walls of the NYC downtown subway platform (A-B-C)
at 81st and Central Park West. (ISO, no zoom, no flash).
Image: GrrlScientist 2008. [wallpaper size].
Read more…
February 10, 2008
tags: birds, yellow-headed blackbird, Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus, ornithology, Image of the Day
Okay, I have to brag a little bit. I have been invited to Manhattan, Kansas, to go birding with Dave Rintoul and his ornithology students for one week at the end of March. I am almost beside myself…
February 9, 2008
tags: Gavial, Gharial, Gavialis gangeticus, reptiles, photography, subway art, AMNH, NYC, NYCLife
I think this is a Gharial (also known as a Gavial), Gavialis gangeticus,
as portrayed in tiles on the walls of the NYC uptown subway stop (A-B-C)
at 81st and Central Park West. (ISO, no zoom, no…
February 9, 2008
tags: caecilian, amphibian, parental care, flesh-eating amphibians, behavior, evolution, streaming video
The Purple Caecilian, Gymnopis multiplicata,
is native to Costa Rica, South America.
Image: WildHerps.com
What is that peculiar creature in the above image? Did you guess that it is a worm?…