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dr. dolittle | May 1, 2014Check out the world's fastest animal (relative to its size):
This research was featured at this year's Experimental Biology conference!
esiegel | October 18, 2013"If you are writing any book about the end of the world, what you are really writing about is what's worth saving about it." -Justin Cronin
Well, it's Friday again, and that means it's time to dip into the question/suggestion box, and see what you've come up with for me. This week's Ask Ethan comes from our reader Michael Acosta, who wants to know about the end of the world. Not, mind you, the way the world is actually likely to end, but in a way that would be satisfying to an aspiring science fiction writer.
In this wonderful science fiction book I am writing, there is a subplot involving…
bioephemera | May 10, 2009
We all know some cities "feel" smaller than others. But this set of subway maps presented at the same scale makes the differences obvious.
Just for fun, I made this image layering four of maps from major world cities in red, black, gold, and blue. Recognize the cities? Answer after the fold. . .
Sizewise, the winner here is London, shown in red. New York, in black, is a close second. The much less complex gold-green pattern is Washington, DC - note that it only approaches the size of New York and London because of the long spindly commuter line reaching north into Maryland. And that dense…
tlambert | February 12, 2009John Quiggin is running an appeal for donations to help the survivors of the terrible fires in Victoria. I've donated there.
tlambert | July 7, 2005I'm in favour of this suggestion from Kevin Drum.
If I could have one small wish for today, it would be for the blogosphere on both left and right to refrain from political point scoring over the London attacks. Just for a day. Isn't tomorrow soon enough to return to our usual arguments?
Tim Blair isn't
COMEDY RELIEF WITH DR STUPID
Dear old Chris Sheil. He just canât help himself:
Last I heard it was at least 30-something dead and thousands insured. Very grim, etc.
Well, not really. Not so long as they were insured. Very forward-thinking of them.
That's not even a spelling flame. It's…
tlambert | February 18, 2005John Quiggin is donating $1 to Medecins Sans Frontieres for each comment he gets on this post. Go and leave a comment! The money will aid the The Global Fund to fight against AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. Your comment might even help pay for some DDT spraying! (Though insecticide treated netting is usually the better option.)
tlambert | January 15, 2005Today is a day of mourning in Australia for tsunami victims and John Quiggin is donating $1 to Australian Red Cross tsunami appeal for each comment left at this post on his blog. I know we have some redoubtable commenters here---go and do your stuff!
tlambert | January 5, 2005 Now I thought that Australians were being extremely generous with $110 million in private donations (that's over $5 per capita) and $1 billion from the Australian government but over at Tech Central Station Jackson Kuhl and Nick Schulz have come up with a measure that they call Amazonian Compassion where Australia comes dead last. They calculate per capita donations via Amazon to each country's Red Cross. By this measure, the US is the highest with $0.0475 per capita, way ahead of France with a mere $0.0005. They don't list Australia, but on their measure Australia gets $0.0000…
tlambert | December 29, 2004 The Sydney Morning Herald has an informative page with news and links for donations. I donated to The Australian Red Cross, who have already raised $3 million. You have to look hard to find any good aspect to such a terrible catastrophe but the generosity of my fellow human beings certainly qualifies.