by Darlene Cavalier | Oct 22, 2009 | Blog, News
The Crunchy Chicken blogger writes: I wanted to write a post about the Hot Men of Climatology, but when I went a huntin’ for hotties, pretty much what I found were older men sporting a lot of hair or none at all. And, the only hot thing going on was more related...
by Darlene Cavalier | Oct 21, 2009 | John-the-Tourist, News
John-the-tourist writes: Research published in the October 13th online edition of the Journal of Infectious Diseases suggests that the reason why warm-blooded animals may have evolved was because fungal diseases can’t stand the heat. The wide-ranging study,...
by Darlene Cavalier | Oct 16, 2009 | Blog, News
Earlier this week, the Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation, an independent Federal government agency I’ve had the pleasure of working with for many years, selected James J. Thomas, Laboratory Fellow at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), as this...
by Darlene Cavalier | Oct 15, 2009 | Blog, News
National Geographic’s Map of the Day is this very cool zoomable poster of every known robotic space exploration overlaid on a map of the solar system. Zoom in and trace the paths of every space mission. Check out the New Horizons mission: launched in 2006,...
by Darlene Cavalier | Oct 14, 2009 | John-the-Tourist, News
John-the-tourist writes: The first “mainly vegetarian” spider known to science was announced today (as reported by EurekaAlert and other sources). Of the 40,000 or so species of known spiders, all have been mostly carnivorous. The Bagheera kiplingi is...
by Darlene Cavalier | Oct 12, 2009 | Blog, News, Science Education
During a recent trip to the zoo, this silverback gorilla walked up to an observation window, leaned forward, stared into my son’s eyes and struck a pose remarkably similar to that of my son’s. They were frozen in this state for a good 5-10 seconds. Long...
