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Vaccination update

post from Bad Astronomy Blog on 12 May 2008 05:30:16 PM. © Bad Astronomy Blog

BABloggee Bret Hall sent me a note linking to a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article following up on my earlier diatribe against antivaxers. The article talks about a new outbreaks of measles, and people could potentially die:The disease - which is completely preventable through vaccination - can lead to pneumonia, encephalitis and death. It is most [...]

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Gallery: How to Make Super-Strong, Super-Flexible
Metals

post from CR4 - Recent Blog Entries on 12 May 2008 04:49:15 PM. © CR4 - Recent Blog Entries

From Wired Discoveries: Researchers at Caltech are pioneering new ways to make superstrong metals that are twice as tough as titanium, and twice as elastic. These "metallic glass" composites are so strong a 3mm rod can support a 2-ton truck and they bend instead of snapping like mo

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X-Files movie trailer!

post from Bad Astronomy Blog on 12 May 2008 04:29:06 PM. © Bad Astronomy Blog

The X-files movie trailer is up on YouTube, c/o Gia:W00t! It looks great! Gia, who posted it, has a couple of screencaps, too. Gillian Anderson is still teh hawt, even maybe more so now. I loved that she was called "the thinking man’s sex symbol" back when the show was on. Even though the actress [...]

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Hot climate could shut down plate tectonics

post from Science Blog - Send lawyers, guns and money on 12 May 2008 04:01:25 PM. © Science Blog - Send lawyers, guns and money

A new study of possible links between climate and geophysics on Earth and similar planets finds that prolonged heating of the atmosphere can shut down plate tectonics and cause a planet's crust to become locked in place.

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Blue Enough For Ya

post from Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted) on 12 May 2008 03:59:59 PM. © Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)

tags: Male Eastern Bluebird, Sialia sialis, birds, Kansas, image of the day

"Blue enough for ya?"

Male Eastern Bluebird, Sialia sialis.

Image: Dave Rintoul, KSU [larger view].

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How and Why Species Multiply: The Radiation of
Darwin's Finches

post from Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted) on 12 May 2008 03:30:59 PM. © Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)

tags: How and Why Species Multiply, evolution, ecology, Darwin's finches, Rosemary Grant, Peter Grant, book review

Peter and Rosemary Grant have been studying the phenomenon of speciation in Darwin's finches for 35 years, using every technique available to them from molecular biology to population ecology. They have written several books about various aspects of their work and even were the focus of a Pulitzer-prize winning book. But there has not been a comprehensive yet scholarly book that has captured the essential highlights of their lifetime work, until now. How and Why Species Multiply: The Radiation of Darwin's Finches by Peter R. Grant and B. Rosemary Grant (New Jersey, Princeton University Press; 2008) provides an important yet accessible overview of the scientific information known about Darwin's finches without becoming bogged down in statistical analyses and methodologies, nor with the historical distractions that often accompanies writings about these birds.

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A use of Hubble to DI for

post from Bad Astronomy Blog on 12 May 2008 03:00:45 PM. © Bad Astronomy Blog

Creationists are getting sneakier. I predicted they’d be attacking astronomy more and more, but this is simply too much. Of course, it won’t work. For one thing, Hubble can’t focus on objects that close. And for another, proving the existence of the teapot won’t help creationists. It’s very clear that it Hubble simply evolved the [...]

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A Tangled Bank is hurtling towards us!

Quickety-quick! The next Tangled Bank is going to be at the Beagle Project on Wednesday — so get those links in to me or host@tangledbank.net real soon now.

Now I've got a full afternoon, with an imminent role as a pie-throwing target, followed by my revenge on my students with my first final of finals week.

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Ron Parise, 1951 - 2008

CollectSpace is reporting that Ron Parise, Shuttle astronaut and astronomer, has died at the age of 56.Damnation.He flew twice; both times as a Payload Specialist for the two UV Astro missions. But I knew Ron. He worked across the hall from me at Goddard Space Flight Center. I really liked him; as busy as he [...]

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Bad Astronomy at the Detroit Science Center

I just spent the weekend at the Detroit Science Center in Michigan, where they premiered the Bad Astronomy planetarium show. Hmmm… sounds like a good idea for a book.Haha. In fact, the show is based on my first book, and I’m in the show itself, hosting it and doing some of the narration (local radio [...]

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