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Today's Mystery Bird for you to Identify

tags: birds, mystery bird, bird ID quiz

[Mystery bird] photographed on Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, Midway Island, Hawai'i. [I will identify this bird for you in 48 hours]

Image: Joe Fuhrman, March 2010 [larger view].


NOTE: Unless you are a beginning bird watcher, PLEASE wait 24 hours before identifying this bird. (Intermediate-expert birders are encouraged to use puns, anagrams, poetry references or citations, Monty Python quotes or anything else that tickles your fancy to indicate you've identified this species during the first 24 hours after the image pops up. Thank you.) Everyone -- even beginning birders! -- PLEASE name at least one field mark that supports your identification.

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Mystery Bird: Laysan Albatross, Phoebastria
(Diomedea) immutabilis

tags: Laysan Albatross, Phoebastria immutabilis, Diomedea immutabilis, birds, mystery bird, bird ID quiz

[Mystery bird] Laysan Albatross, Phoebastria (Diomedea) immutabilis, photographed on Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, Midway Island, Hawai'i. [I will identify this bird for you in 48 hours]

Image: Joe Fuhrman, March 2010 [larger view].


NOTE: Unless you are a beginning bird watcher, PLEASE wait 24 hours before identifying this bird. (Intermediate-expert birders are encouraged to use puns, anagrams, poetry references or citations, Monty Python quotes or anything else that tickles your fancy to indicate you've identified this species during the first 24 hours after the image pops up. Thank you.) Everyone -- even beginning birders! -- PLEASE name at least one field mark that supports your identification.

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Teenage Girl Gives Herself Carpal Tunnel From
Sending 4,000 Texts a Month

From Gizmodo: Here's a tip for those of you looking to avoid repetitive motion injuries such as carpal tunnel syndrome: don't send 100 texts per day. Unfortunately, that's exactly what 16-year-old Annie Levitz from Mundelein, IL did. And now she requires cortisone injections and

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Russian Cows Watch Samsung LED TV While
You're Stuck With Your 32-Inch Coby

From Gizmodo: I've heard the one about vegetables growing bigger if you play classical music at them, but cows that watch TV (of the Swiss Alps, no less) makes them "more happy and productive"? One Russian farmer is testing the theory, with half his cows watching the Swiss Alps

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Big Bang for beginners-9: Dark energy

In addition to the appearance of dark matter, another interesting development arose when observers tried to determine the curvature of the universe, an important fact in determining the ultimate fate of the universe.

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Solution to economic crisis and climate change is
sustainable degrowth

Researchers propose that equitable downscaling of economic production and consumption is what will improve environmental conditions while at the same time enhancing human well-being.

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Great apes know they could be wrong

Great apes ? orangutans, chimpanzees, bonobos and gorillas ? realize that they can be wrong when making choices, according to Dr. Josep Call from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. Dr. Call's study was just published online in Springer's journal, Animal Cognition.

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Older adults remember the good times

Despite the aches and pains that occur in old age, many older adults maintain a positive outlook, remembering the positive experiences from their past.

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EFF panel: Architecture is Policy

From Boing Boing: One of the Electronic Frontier Foundation's founding principles was Mitch Kapor's aphorism, "Architecture is politics." The design of systems determines the kinds of politics that can take place in them, and designing a system is itself a political act. As part of

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Lawmakers Eyeing National ID Card

From Wired Top Stories: Lawmakers are proposing a national identification card — what they're calling "high-tech, fraud-proof Social Security cards" — that would be required for all employees in the United States. The proposal by Sen. Charles Schumer (D-New York) and

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