August 7, 2008
Topic Categories: Birds • Image of the Day
tags: American Avocet, Recurvirostra americana, birds, nature, Image of the Day
American Avocets, Recurvirostra americana, feeding at Bolivar Flats, Texas.
Image: Joseph Kennedy, 12 May 2008 [larger view].
Nikon D200, Kowa 883 telescope with TSN-PZ camera eyepiece 1/1250s f/8.0 at 1000.0mm iso400.
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Topic Categories: Education & Careers • Humanities & Social Science
Here's a few blog carnivals for you to read;
Tangled Bank, issue 111 -- eleventy-one! I think that's good luck in Hobbiton, right? Anyway, this blog carnival focuses on science, nature and medicine.
Carnival of the Vanities, 7 August 2008 issue. This is the original blog carnival, the first one in the whole wide world, and it links to the best writing in the blogosphere, regardless of topic.
Rants, the 6 August 2008 issue. You know you want to read it, yes you do!
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Topic Categories: Harry Potter • Your Inner Child
tags: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, movie posters, poster teasers
Which Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince poster is your favorite? After you've seen them all (I've found ten so far), I am going to ask you to vote for your favorite!
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August 6, 2008
Topic Categories: My Pictures • NYC Subway Art • NYC Through My Eye • NYC life • Photography and cameras
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 #29
as seen at NYC's Lincoln Center stop at Broadway for the uptown (northbound) 1 train.
Image: GrrlScientist 2008 [larger view].
Glass mosaic murals depicting scenes of theater, dance, and orchestra-related subjects are scattered throughout this station.
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Topic Categories: Microbiology • Molecular Biology • Virology • Wow!
tags: virology, mimivirus, sputnik, virophage, microbiology, molecular biology
Now here's an astonishing discovery that's hot off the presses: a virus that infects other viruses! This amazing finding is being published tomorrow in the top-tier peer-reviewed journal, Nature.
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Topic Categories: Evolution • Genetics • Horses • Medicine • Molecular Biology • Speciation
tags: bpr3.org/?p=52, premature hair graying, autosomal dominant trait, genetics, horses, hair color, syntaxin-17, melanocortin-1 receptor, cis-acting regulatory mutation, melanoma, evolution
This horse is in the process of losing its pigment.
It will end up being all white by the time it is eight years old.
Image: Horse Wallpaper [larger view].
Even though I have always been a fan of black horses, my heart did leap at the sight of the noble Shadowfax racing towards Gandalf in response to his call in the Lord of the Rings. White horses have symbolized purity throughout most ages and cultures, so political leaders have often been portrayed astride a white horse. Interestingly, these so-called white horses are actually Gray. White horses have pink skin and blue eyes. Gray horses are typically born black, bay or chestnut in color but rapidly lose all hair pigmentation as they age, ending up completely white by the time they are eight years old. Meanwhile, their skin remains black and their eyes are typically dark, giving a silvery or grey cast to their seeming snowy-whiteness. This popular coat color results from an autosomal dominant mutation to a gene that was just identified by a research team at Uppsala University in Sweden. Unfortunately, this coat color is also linked to an increased risk of developing a specific form of cancer: melanoma. Thus, this finding has important implications for human medical research.
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Topic Categories: Birds • Image of the Day
tags: American Avocet, Recurvirostra americana, birds, nature, Image of the Day
American Avocets, Recurvirostra americana, at Bolivar Flats, Texas.
Image: Joseph Kennedy, 13 April 2008 [larger view].
Nikon D200, Kowa 883 telescope with TSN-PZ camera eyepiece 1/2000s f/8.0 at 1000.0mm iso400.
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Topic Categories: Education & Careers • Humanities & Social Science
Here's a few blog carnivals for you to enjoy;
StoryBlogging Carnival, issue XC. This carnival features blog essays that tell a story.
Carnival of the Feminists, 62nd edition. This blog carnival focuses on feminism and increasing the exposure of news that affects the welfare of women.
Linnaeus' Legacy, issue ten. This relatively new blog carnival links to articles about taxonomy and biodiversity.
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Topic Categories: Insects • Streaming videos
tags: white-tailed sea eagle, behavior, fetch, streaming video
Are you suffering from a problem with ants? Perhaps you should check your scanner to see if they've set up housekeeping in there? [1:19]
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Topic Categories: Harry Potter • Your Inner Child
tags: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, movie posters, poster teasers
Which Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince poster is your favorite? After you've seen them all (I've found ten so far), I am going to ask you to vote for your favorite!
Read more »
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August 5, 2008
Topic Categories: My Pictures • NYC Subway Art • NYC Through My Eye • NYC life • Photography and cameras
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 #28 [Detail]
as seen at NYC's Lincoln Center stop at Broadway for the uptown (northbound) 1 train.
Image: GrrlScientist 2008 [larger view].
Glass mosaic murals depicting scenes of theater, dance, and orchestra-related subjects are scattered throughout this station.
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Topic Categories: Education & Careers • Life Science
My companion parrot, Elektra, a female Solomon Islands Eclectus parrot, Eclectus roratus solomonensis.
Image: GrrlScientist 3 April 2008 [larger view].
Sometime today (probably while I was cleaning up after my parrots), this blog received its two millionth visitor! Thank you everyone!
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Topic Categories: Birds • Image of the Day
tags: American Avocet, Recurvirostra americana, birds, nature, Image of the Day
American Avocets, Recurvirostra americana, at Bolivar Flats, Texas.
Image: Joseph Kennedy, 2 December 2006 [larger view].
Nikon D200, Kowa 883 telescope with TSN-PZ camera eyepiece 1/750s f/8.0 at 500.0mm iso400.
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Topic Categories: Birds • Streaming videos • Wow!
tags: white-tailed sea eagle, behavior, fetch, streaming video
This streaming video shows a man playing fetch with Evie, his white-tailed sea eagle. This is a fun game if you enjoy having a 14-pound bird with an eight foot wing-span fetching a tennis ball -- and sometimes puncturing your hands or arms with her sharp talons so badly that you need to visit the local hospital [2:26]
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Topic Categories: Behavior • Birds • Evolution • Neurobiology • Ornithology • Speciation
tags: bpr3.org/?p=52, begging calls, brood parasitism, coevolution, learning, social shaping, ornithology, Horsfield's Bronze-Cuckoo, Chalcites basalis, Chrysococcyx basalis
Horsfield's Bronze-Cuckoo, Chalcites (Chrysococcyx) basalis,
Capertee Valley, NSW, Australia, September 2003.
Image: Aviceda [larger view].
Brood parasites are birds, fish or insects that deceive unrelated animals of the same species or different species to care for their offspring. By doing so, the parasitic parent is relieved of the energetic demands of constructing a nest and raising its young to independence, so they can invest their extra energy into producing yet more young. As host parents seek to minimize their investment into raising the offspring of parasitic parents, parasitic species are forced to become better at deceiving their host species into caring for their offspring. These deceptions include both behaviors and morphologies. This leads to an escalating coevolutionary arms race between these species.
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Topic Categories: Harry Potter • Your Inner Child
tags: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, movie posters, poster teasers
Which Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince poster is your favorite? After you've seen them all (I've found ten so far), I am going to ask you to vote for your favorite!
Read more »
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