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Chambers Street/WTC Subway Art, 14

post from Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted) on 20 March 2009 09:59:59 PM. © Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)

tags: Chambers Street, Park Place, World Trade Center, Oculus, Andrew Ginzel, Kristin Jones, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC

Oculus, #13 (1998).

Stone mosaic on walls throughout Chambers Street station complex (A, C & E trains); also, there is a stone and glass floor mosaic at Park Place entrance, which connects to this station via a tunnel.

Artists: Andrew Ginzel & Kristin Jones.

Image: GrrlScientist, 3 January 2009 [larger view].

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Saucer Fleet: We have a winner!

post from Bad Astronomy on 20 March 2009 09:51:00 PM. © Bad Astronomy

We have a winner in the Saucer Fleet giveaway! It’s Pierre Rioux, who was commenter #238. I went to random.org and had it find a random number between 1 and 767 (the last three comments were after the deadline, and I deleted one comment that was a[...]

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Friday Recipe: Chinese-Style Roasted Beef
Shortribs

post from Good Math, Bad Math on 20 March 2009 09:20:15 PM. © Good Math, Bad Math

It's been a while since I posted a recipe, and last week, I came upwith a real winner, so I thought I'd share it.

I absolutely love beef short ribs. They're one of the nicest cutsof beef - they've got lots of meat, but they're well marbled with fat, and they're up against the bone, which gives them extra flavor. When cooked well, they've got an amazing flavor and a wonderful texture.

This recipe produces the best short ribs I've ever had. It's based,loosely, on a chinese recipe, but it's cooked more in a western style.There's one unusual ingredient, which is a chinese sauce that I've mentioned before on the blog, called sha cha sauce. It's made from brill shrimp,garlic, and chili peppers. You can get it in a chinese grocery store. The english label is, unfortunately, "barbeque sauce", but you can identify itby the ingredients, and by the picture of the jar over to the side.

xia cha.

Ingredients

  • 4 lbs shortribs, bone in, cut flanken style. (That means cut perpendicular to the bone, in chunks about 2 inches long.)
  • One large onion.
  • 4 cloves garlic. (more if you really like garlic)
  • 1 cup soy sauce.
  • 1 cup beef stock.
  • 1 cup dry gin.
  • 4 tablespoons sugar.
  • One teaspoon xia cha sauce.

      • Instructions

      1. Put the garlic and onion into a food processor, andrun it until they're nicely chopped. Then add the liquids tothe processor, and run it until the garlic and onions are a pureemixed into the liquids.
      2. Put the short ribs into an oven-safe deep dish, and cover them withthe liquid. Put this into the fridge for a few hours to marinate.
      3. Heat the oven to 350, and put the marinated shortribs into theoven - marinade and all. Cook for 3 hours, taking it out and basting it every 30 minutes.
      4. By now, you've got some very well-cooked shortribs, sitting in the marinade, along with a huge amount of fat that cooked out of them. Take them out of the liquid, and set them aside.
      5. Strain the liquid, and skim the fat. What's left is a very strong, but very flavorful sauce.
      6. Put the shortribs back into the now empty pan. Give them a light bastewith the sauce. Heat the oven up to broil, and when it's hot, put the short ribs back in, just long enough to brown and crisp the outside.

      And they're ready to eat. Serve it with the sauce on the side, alongwith rice and some stir-fried vegetables.

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Report Reveals One-Third of US Birds are
Endangered

post from Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted) on 20 March 2009 09:10:29 PM. © Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)

tags: The State of the Birds 2009, ornithology, birds, endangered species, conservation, global warming, climate change, environment, invasive species, habitat loss

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According to the most comprehensive report ever published in the USA, nearly one third of America's 800 native bird species are endangered, threatened, or in significant decline, thanks to habitat loss, pollution, climate change, competition from invasive species and other threats.

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Comments Should be Working

post from Good Math, Bad Math on 20 March 2009 08:59:21 PM. © Good Math, Bad Math

Seed's tech guy did a reset and restart of the server, and it appears that now I'm able to turn off registration without completely disabling comments. So everyone who's been having trouble commenting, please give it a try again, and let me know if you have any trouble.

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Banned in Kentucky

post from Pharyngula on 20 March 2009 07:40:46 PM. © Pharyngula

Perhaps the tables have been turned! I have received one report that Pharyngula has been blocked on government computers in Kentucky — can anyone confirm that? Apparently, you can read Ann Coulter, Focus on the Family, the Drudge Report, and Rush Limbaugh when you're supposed to be pushing those government forms around on your desk, but you can't read PZ Myers. I think I'm flattered. I suspect I annoyed some fan of Ken Ham.

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Survivor: Pharyngula! Day Five.

post from Pharyngula on 20 March 2009 07:06:54 PM. © Pharyngula

Yet more internet melodrama! Several of our unwilling contestants took a shot at the immunity challenge, to comical effect: they either completely failed to be aware of what people find irritating in their posting habits, or in one case, even plagiarized his answer. The result of the vote by the readership: none met the challenge, although several thought Facilis made a good effort, so no one has immunity.

What about the vote to see who would be banned? Once again, John Kwok saw an ember of a possibility that he might be selected, and chose to fight it by repeatedly throwing buckets of gasoline on it. If he'd just ignored it, I'm sure he would have been passed over without a problem… but by constantly fanning the flames, he kept a constant volley of votes for him going, and finally ended up in second place. Good work!

The final winner, though, and the one who is now banned, is the loathsome Simon. His foul-tempered hatefulness was an unstoppable force, and the silliness of a Kwok could not match it. Simon is gone, and good riddance.

Now, I had planned on doing one more round of voting to clear the blog of a total of three trouble-making pests, but in the end I've decided to cut it short right here. Something happened that compels me to simply ban one more person outright, and end the whole series. It seems that one of our contestants has been writing to a friend and asking him to use his powers of persuasion to compel me to a) LEAVE KEN MILLER ALONE!!! (should be read with a Chris Crocker-esque shriek, and with much running mascara) and b) grant the correspondent immediate, automatic immunity. He also threatened to complete his novel and include me as a character, ala Michael Crichton. Can you guess who it was?

Somebody is taking this far too seriously, and I think it's time to cut off his little obsession. Goodbye, John Kwok. You won't be commenting here any more.

And we're done, for now. Those who survived Survivor: Pharyngula! should not rest easy, though — I will use my vast powers capriciously, and with malice, if you should persist in your ways that got you on the list in the first place.

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Friday Cephalopod: Hatchling

post from Pharyngula on 20 March 2009 06:20:14 PM. © Pharyngula

euprymna.jpg
Euprymna tasmanica

Figure from Cephalopods: A World Guide (amzn/b&n/abe/pwll), by Mark Norman.

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Friday Random 10, 3/20

post from Good Math, Bad Math on 20 March 2009 05:56:04 PM. © Good Math, Bad Math

  1. Valley of the Giants, "Back to God's Country": I mentioned Valley of the Giants a few weeks ago, as one of my favorite post-rock bands. A few weeks of listening to them incessantly hasn't changed that. They're absolutely brilliant. This track is very typicalof them; it's got a slow start, with an almost droning main melody. And they take that,and develop it, through rhythm and harmony, until it's almost unrecognizable. And theneverything changes.
  2. Hawkwind, "World of Tiers": typical Hawkwind. If you like them, you'll like this. If you don't, you won't.
  3. The Flower Kings, "Rumble Fish Twist": a live track by the Flower Kings. Every time I go for a while without listening to tFK, I'm amazed when I turn them on. Roine Stolt and company are just so incredible. To me, there's a kind of near perfection about the Flower Kings work that no one else comes close to.
  4. Kruzenshtern and Parahod, "Focus Pocus": Some of the strangest stuff I've ever listened to. K&P are somewhere between progressive Klezmer, Jazz, and noise... They're really amazing, but hard to describe or classify. If you can find a copy of one of their CDs, I highly recommend it, but they're very hard to find.
  5. Gong, "Infinitea": This band is yet another example of the "How did I not know about these guys?" phenomenon. They've been around for quite a while, coming out ofthe Manchester scene. They're basically a spinoff of sorts from Soft Machine. They area really amazing progressive band, from the Jazzy side of things. They've been doing stuffsince the 70s, and are still making new albums now.
  6. The Reasoning, "Dark Angel": This is a band that I can't make up my mind about. They're neo-prog. They've got brilliant moments, and they've got a lot of moments that are rather dull. I can't quite decide what I think on balance; I need to listen to them a bit more. On the good side, they've got three members with good (but very different) voices, and do a lot of really nice vocal harmony work, which is unusual.
  7. Uriah Heep, "What Kind of God?": A great disappointment. I've heard aboutUriah Heep for the longest time, and I finally got around to buying one of their albums. I find it just intolerably dull. Really profoundly mediocre music.
  8. Sonic Youth, "Silver Rocker (live)": old Sonic Youth. I really love SY, and I think that their songwriter has gotten stronger over the years. But there's still a raw energy to their early stuff which the new can't match. It's still the same sound, and the older songs can sometimes tend towards being a bit on the simple side, but there's still something really special in their older material.
  9. Sylvan, "Strange Emotion": And another mixed bag. I was looking at other reviews of Sylvan, and someone described them as "Emo Prog". Not a bad description. It's definitely neo-prog, with the kinds of sound and structure that you'd expect; but it's got that mopey, self-absorbed feeling of emo-dreck.
  10. The Wishing Tree, "Ostara": And still another mixed one. This is Steve Rothery's band. (Rothery is the guitarist from Marillion.) I'm a huge Rothery fan - he's got bothfantastic technical chops, and also fantastic musical taste. He's not just a loud fancyguitarist; he's a very musical guitarist. He's got an extremely distinctive style,and yet also manages to fit himself into whatever's going on around him. This album hassome absolutely wonderful material; but it's also got a lot of really dullderivative stuff. The singer (Hannah Stobart) has a really beautiful voice, but shedoesn't have her own style. She always sounds like she's trying to be someone else. Mostly that's Kate Bush, but at times, she sounds like she's trying to be Tori Amos, orMelissa Etheridge. But you can almost always listen to her and say "She's trying tosound like X". On the whole, I like them, but think they'd be much better if Ms. Stobartjust figured out how to sound like herself.
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Attack of the dust donuts

post from Planetary Society Weblog on 20 March 2009 05:45:24 PM. © Planetary Society Weblog

Yesterday I was browsing through the latest raw images from Cassini and came across a set taken of the rings with Cassini's wide-angle camera that all looked something like this:Click to enlarge >Saturn's ringsCassini took this photo of Saturn's main ring system with its wide-angle camera on March 10, 2009. Credit: NASA / JPL / SSI What on Earth (or, I guess I should say, what on Saturn) is going on with these photos? For those of you who are ....

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