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Monthly Archives: February 2009
Casual Friday — Ultra-slo-mo ladybug
For your Friday edutainment, here’s some YouTube video of a ladybug in super slow motion flight (about 1/120 real speed)…
The scientific tourist #61 — Pueblo Bonito
Posted in Humanity, Sci / Tech Tourism
Tagged ancestral puebloan, anthropology, archaeology, Chaco Canyon, Humanity
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Carnivalia — 2/11 – 2/17
Posted in Astronomy, Biology, Carnivalia, Communicating science, Critical thinking, History, Humanity, Space
Tagged Astronomy, Biology, Carnivalia, Communicating science, History, Humanity, Space
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The scientific tourist #60 — Shepard's ride
This weeks’ image comes from the Cape Canaveral Air Station in Florida, it’s a replica of Alan Shepard’s MR-7 spacecraft and launch vehicle…
Posted in History, Sci / Tech Tourism, Space
Tagged History, rockets, Space, space race
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Casual Friday — and you thought traffic was bad on *your* commute…
As you may have heard, history was accidentally (and expensively) made on February 10th when two communications satellites collided high over Siberia…
Charles Darwin, 200 years on
As you’re probably well aware, today is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin…
Carnivalia — 2/04 – 2/10
Posted in Astronomy, Biology, Carnivalia, Humanity, Space
Tagged Astronomy, Biology, Carnivalia, Humanity, Space
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The scientific tourist #59 — Crinoids
Crinoids are odd little critters, for sure. Often called “living fossils,” they’re rarely seen alive as their modern counterparts live at ocean depths exceeding 100 meters (and more often 200 meters)…
Posted in Biology, Geology, History, Sci / Tech Tourism
Tagged Biology, extinction, fossil, Geology, History, mass extinction, paleontology, Permian
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