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Monthly Archives: September 2007
A moment of your time, please…
Out of curiosity (and because I’d like to gauge just how satisfied folks are with the available themes for the site), I’m putting up a quick poll. Please just click to vote for your favorite theme. If you’re not that wild about any of the available themes, and / or have some suggestions for others, please just comment on this post…. Continue reading
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This week in blog carnivals
As usual, there are lots of good blog carnivals for you to choose from, if you’re on the hunt for some good science-related reading. Continue reading
Posted in Biology, Carnivalia, Communicating science, Math, Space
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SOS, graphed
There are a lot of interesting utilities to be found out on the web.Some of them are even useful.Just for fun, I thought I’d show you one of them that I ran against this site’s home page — the utility generates a graph, showing the structure of whatever page you give it. Continue reading
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How logical are you?
You Are Incredibly Logical Move over Spock – you’re the new master of logic You think rationally, clearly, and quickly. A seasoned problem solver, your mind is like a computer! How Logical Are You? OK — give it a shot, … Continue reading
Posted in Humor / Just for fun, Odds and ends
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When you dive on a reef, and you're hit with sharp teeth…
It turns out that most bony fishes have two sets of jaws — a normally-visible external one, and an internal (pharyngeal) one that’s essentially in the fishes’ throat. The fish pull in their food (generally via suction), then the pharyngeal jaw and its teeth are used to chew or grind the fishes’ food and help in swallowing it. If you’ve ever tried to retrieve a lure from a trout’s craw, you know just what I’m talking about here.
Well, it turns out that the moray eel is a fish of a different color. Continue reading
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Blog carnivals du jour
Today’s a holiday in the U.S., but that doesn’t mean folks don’t want a little “sciencey” reading to go along with their hamburgers and potato salad (and of course, folks in other countries need a break from their daily labors as well). Continue reading
Posted in Biology, Carnivalia, Climate, Communicating science, Geology, Space
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About this site's layout — tips for readers
One of the handy things about publishing a blog using Wordpress is that the software makes it very easy to change the look of the site with just a few clicks of my mouse. By using “themes” that web developers freely publish, I can pick a pre-made set of artistic choices (generally more tasteful / visually appealing than what I could come up with on my own) in a shot — and with a bit of tweaking, I can easily customize a given theme to “fit” this site. What you may not have noticed, though, is that I’ve set this site up with a number of themes that YOU can choose from… Continue reading
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