42nd Street Times Square Passageway Subway Art 34

post from Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted) on 21 November 2008 08:59:59 PM. © Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)

tags: Times Square, 42nd street, The Revelers, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC

The Revelers (2007).

Artist: Jane Dickson. Photographed in the passageway at 42nd Street/Times Square traveling east between the 8th Avenue/Port Authority Bus Terminal A, C, & E trains) and the 7th Avenue/Broadway (1, 2, & 3 trains) platforms.

I watched the workmen install these mosaics (I wish I had photographed the process to share with you) and photographed them all after the adhesive had dried.

Image: GrrlScientist 9 September 2008 [larger view].

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Single-Celled Giant Provides New Early-Evolution
Perspective

post from Curious Cat Science and Engineering Blog on 21 November 2008 05:34:00 PM. © Curious Cat Science and Engineering Blog

Discovery of Giant Roaming Deep Sea Protist Provides New Perspective on Animal Evolution
Biologist Mikhail “Misha” Matz and his colleagues recently discovered the grape-sized protists and their complex tracks on the ocean floor near the Bahamas. DNA analysis confirmed that the giant protist found by Matz and his colleagues in the Bahamas is Gromia sphaerica, a species previously known only from the Arabian Sea.

Matz says the protists probably move by sending leg-like extensions, called pseudopodia, out of their cells in all directions. The pseudopodia then grab onto mud in one direction and the organism rolls that way, leaving a track. Hr says the giant protists’ bubble-like body design is probably one of the planet’s oldest macroscopic body designs, which may have existed for 1.8 billion years.

“I personally think now that the whole Precambrian may have been exclusively the reign of protists,” says Matz. “Our observations open up this possible way of interpreting the Precambrian fossil record.”

He says the appearance of all the animal body plans during the Cambrian explosion might not just be an artifact of the fossil record. There are likely other mechanisms that explain the burst-like origin of diverse multicellular life forms.

Single-Celled Giant Upends Early Evolution

Slowly rolling across the ocean floor, a humble single-celled creature is poised to revolutionize our understanding of how complex life evolved on Earth.

A distant relative of microscopic amoebas, the grape-sized Gromia sphaerica was discovered once before, lying motionless at the bottom of the Arabian Sea. But when Mikhail Matz of the University of Texas at Austin and a group of researchers stumbled across a group of G. sphaerica off the coast of the Bahamas, the creatures were leaving trails behind them up to 50 centimeters (20 inches) long in the mud.

The trouble is, single-celled critters aren’t supposed to be able to leave trails. The oldest fossils of animal trails, called ‘trace fossils’, date to around 580 million years ago, and paleontologists always figured they must have been made by multicellular animals with complex, symmetrical bodies.

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Global Warming

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Perspective

post from Bad Astronomy on 21 November 2008 04:10:00 PM. © Bad Astronomy

Perspective. Let me give you it.I did not know who Louis CK is when I first watched this, but now I love him, for he speaks truth.Hat tip to Fark.[...]

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Solar conjunction: Holidays for Mars missions,
and an Opportunity update

post from Planetary Society Weblog on 21 November 2008 03:09:23 PM. © Planetary Society Weblog

The period of Mars solar conjunction has just begun, which means that a host of scientists and engineers whose day jobs entail interaction with the five active Mars spacecraft are getting a five-week break from the daily grind of operations. Conjunction happens roughly every two Earth years when Mars is very close to the Sun in the sky (within five degrees of the Sun), and this time it goes from November 18 to December 24. (If you want to give ....

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Finland Rocks

post from Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted) on 21 November 2008 02:59:58 PM. © Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)

tags: Helsinki, Finland, nature, image of the day

Unidentified plants, mosses, and lichens in Munkkivuori (Helsinki).

Image: GrrlScientist, 18 November 2008 [larger view].

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Disaster 2012

post from Bad Astronomy on 21 November 2008 02:30:00 PM. © Bad Astronomy

I don’t know if I should file this under "Politics" or "Death from the Skies!" Maybe both.Or maybe just "Humor". Yeah.PostScript: Republicans? Are you listening here? You may want to throw Governor Palin into a sack[...]

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Your Daily Dose of Cute

It's a Hot-Dog!

I'm sorry, it was too cute not to share.

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SaaS means more customer choice

By: Mike Frichol, Infor Team You may have noticed Infor made several announcements regarding SaaS solution availability from our annual Inforum customer conference. * Infor Delivers SaaS Option for Infor ERP SyteLine * Infor EAM SaaS Option Helps SMBs Cut Main

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