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scientifically accurate warning labels

January 15, 2007

in Links, Science

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strange and violent squid sex

October 6, 2005

in Cephalopods, Science

They say that keeping a blog is a good way to find yourself. And you know, I really had no idea I had such a fascination with our eight-legged mesopelagic overlords until I started blogging about them. So there you go. All this time I was a latent squidblogger. From collision detection I learn more [...]

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the gimli glider

September 23, 2005

in Links, Science, Stories

OK, just one more post today. (I’m down to only one page of backlogged draft blog posts! woohoo!) By now y’all have seen the footage of the JetBlue airplane that landed without incident in LAX a few days ago with the crooked landing gear. (or at least heard about it). In an online discussion about [...]

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hurricanes FAQ

September 21, 2005

in Links, Science

I was reading the comments over on Jeff Masters’ blog on weather underground, watching Rita grow into a cat 5, and they were talking about Typhoon Tip, the largest recorded megastorm ever, in 1979. It had sustained winds of 190MPH and covered over 1000 square miles. And I got to wondering — what’s the difference [...]

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when the celaphopods rise up, run

September 4, 2005

in Cephalopods, Links, Science, Stories

Over at the Seattle aquarium, employees had to move their two giant pacific octopus into a big holding tank with some sharks for a while. They figured the octopus would be safe from the sharks because there were plenty of places to hide and they could turn color to blend in with their surroundings. They [...]

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