Boing Boing:
Have a gander at this magnificent transparent sea cucumber, found in the sunless ocean depths by the Census of Marine Life and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Thousands of strange creatures found deep in ocean
(Thanks, Brandon!)
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Boing Boing:
Good stuff out of President Obama's speech on the importance of science education. Govt. will be working with media to help kids get science literate and, more importantly, help them get that science is fun. What I'm really excited about, though, is the first annual National Lab Day (coming early May 2010!)--a nationwide, c (Read More)
Boing Boing:
Have you ever considered cloning your dog? I have. Ruby is so cute and sweet, but she probably won't be around a decade from now. Since I don't know how to find her family and she can't have babies, it's the only way possible to keep a part of her near me forever. I contacted RNL Biostar, a Maryland-based company that has s (Read More)
Boing Boing:
B&H, the photo and video gear company much-loved by photogs and filmmakers worldwide is in hot water over employment discrimination claims - again. Four women claim they were denied sales positions because of their gender. According to reports I'm seeing, there are historically no female sales staff at B&H? Related: earlier (Read More)
USATODAY.com Washington - Top Stories:
President Obama will speak about several government initiatives to raise the level of education in science, technology, engineering ...
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Boing Boing:
"I screamed, but there was nothing to hear." NPR reports on the disturbing story of a man whom doctors thought was in a coma for 23 years. In reality, he was totally conscious, but couldn't communicate. Improved brain imaging technology--which made his real state apparent--was "like a second birth."
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USATODAY.com - On Deadline:
Children should be allowed to get dirty because being too clean can interfere with the ability of the skin to heal, according to new U.S. medical research, teh BBC reports.
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National Geographic:
Oil-eating tubeworms and 15-tentacled sea cucumbers are among
the 5,000 deep-dwelling species identified by the Census of Marine
Life, a ten-year effort to chronicle life in the deep ocean.
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National Geographic:
A football octopod and a piglet squid are just a few of the
bizarre deep-sea creatures uncovered during the ten-year Census of
Marine Life, which ends in 2010.
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National Geographic:
Blue-green ooze in Hawaii and crunchy golden crusts in New Mexico are among newfound mats of microbial waste that could offer clues in the search for extraterrestrial life, scientists say.
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Boing Boing:
(CC-licensed image by Flickr user laverrue)Gregory Glass is a disease ecologist -- he studies the relationship between pathogens and hosts. A professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Glass's laboratory is Baltimore's urban underbelly, where he hangs out with beefy sewer rats. Apparently, Baltimore is a (Read More)
USATODAY.com - Lifeline Live:
For good? Wow!" That was Matt Damon's reaction last night when Extra broke the news to him at a movie premiere that Oprah is ending her talk show in 2011. "I'm amazed," said Damon, 39. "I don't remember life without...
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Boing Boing:
In Japan, we eat soy all the time. For breakfast we have rice with natto and miso soup with tofu; for dinner we pop edamame into our mouths in between chopsticks-full of vegetables sauteed in soy sauce. I always assumed it was good for you, until I came to California and my health-conscious American friend told me that soy (Read More)
Boing Boing:
"The news here is not that people are irrational, giving too much credence to the dramatic and the local and the short-term (that's not news), but that people have added a veneer of scientific rationality to their irrational decisions." Seth Godin laments the growing use of phony sciencey-sounding arguments to validate irra (Read More)
USATODAY.com Nation - Top Stories:
As the USA enters traditional flu season, there's a tiny bit of good news for public health advocates: Over the past month or ...
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