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No One Died in the Preakness Stakes!

post from Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted) on 17 May 2008 10:15:56 PM. © Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)

tags: Big Brown, horseracing, Preakness Stakes, Triple Crown

Kent Desmoreaux rides Big Brown across the finish line at the 2008 Preakness Stakes today. The horse's ears are pricked forward, indicating that he is running easily.

Image: Jonathan Ernst (Reuters).

Odds-on favorite and Kentucky Derby winner, Big Brown, won the Preakness Stakes today by 5 1/4 lengths. This victory makes him 2/3rds of the way to winning horse racing's Triple Crown. But Big Brown's win isn't really news, if you ask me, since he is the only talented living 3-year-old racehorse in America this year, so of course he should win this race. However, what IS news is the none of the racehorses competing in the Preakness Stakes were injured or died. Whew.

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What you do not want done to yourself, do not do
to others. Confucius quote

post from phil?s blog on 17 May 2008 10:03:00 PM. © phil?s blog

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them. Albert Einstein ?Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.? Plato quotes ?Do not worry about your problems with mathematics...

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West 86th Street Subway Art 6

post from Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted) on 17 May 2008 09:59:59 PM. © Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)

tags: West 86th street subway art, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC

West 86th Street Subway Art #6
as seen at NYC's West 86th Street stop at Broadway for the uptown 1 train.
(This piece was completed in 1989; it was mounted on 2 July 2006).

Artist: Nitza Tufino.

Image: GrrlScientist 2008 [larger view].

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Where You Sit Reveal What Kind of Person You Are

post from Nerdy Science Blog on 17 May 2008 09:30:47 PM. © Nerdy Science Blog

I’m the person with good intention but bad narcolepsy. Everytime I woke up from my sleep and I realized the lecturer was staring at me, I would smile back at him and go back to my sleep.[pic] addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fscience.kukuchew.com%2F2008%2F05%2F18%2Fwhere-you-sit-reveal-what-kind-of-person-you-are%2F'; addthis_title = 'Where+You+Sit+Reveal+What+Kind+of+Person+You+Are'; addthis_pub = [...]

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Eight Belles Autopsy Report Now Public

post from Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted) on 17 May 2008 09:09:55 PM. © Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)

tags: Eight Belles, horseracing, autopsy results, streaming video

Below the fold is a hot-off-the-presses streaming video report on the autopsy results for the gallant thoroughbred filly, Eight Belles, who was killed on the racetrack two weeks ago after finishing second in the Kentucky Derby. According to the results, Eight Belles did not have any underlying catastrophic health issues, such as a heart attack or an aneurysm that caused her to collapse, as was postulated shortly after her tragic death [1:23].

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Free Avian Anatomy Handbook

post from Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted) on 17 May 2008 05:31:52 PM. © Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)

tags: online books, ornithology, birds, anatomy Avian Anatomy Handbook, Julian Baumel

I know several of my overseas readers have wanted a free PDF of Julian Baumel's celebrated Handbook of Avian Anatomy: Nomina Anatomica Avium, 2nd Edition, published in 1993 by the Nuttal Ornithological Club, but I have been unable to email it to you due to its large size (400 pages; 49MB). Thanks to the suggestion of one of my readers, I uploaded a copy of this PDF to RapidShare, which hosts large files of up to 100 MB. Now, you can download this PDF to your computer -- but the file must be downloaded at least once every 90 days, or RapidShare will delete it. [scanned Baumel Avian Anatomy PDF 49MB]. So share this link with your colleagues and friends, so they also will download it, and thereby preserve the file on RapidShare for the general community to access.

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You go girls! Part II

post from Bad Astronomy Blog on 17 May 2008 04:19:10 PM. © Bad Astronomy Blog

Last year, the prestigious Siemens science competition was swept by girls, and now girls have swept the top tiers at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair.Very cool.Engineering has always been a place where there are more men than women, and it’s great to see girls doing so well in the field. I happened to [...]

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Sialia currucoides

post from Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted) on 17 May 2008 03:59:55 PM. © Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)

tags: mountain bluebird, Sialia currucoides, birds, Washington state, Image of the Day

Male mountain bluebird, Sialia currucoides.

This bird surprised birders in Washington state by visiting Bainbridge Island one weekend in April 2008.

Image: Eva Gerdts, 2008 [larger view].

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John McCain has a plan

I was just reading a random website about Battlestar Galactica, and I saw a picture on it of Colonel Saul Tigh. It suddenly occurred to me how much he looks like John McCain. I was all ready to make a funny photoshop of it, but I should’ve realized there are no original ideas on the [...]

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I hesitate to mention this…

…but God has a blog in which he lists the stuff he hates. He's definitely a bit petty and vindictive, so be careful commenting over there — he might just pick on you.

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