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Do Chimpanzees Understand Death? | Primatology.net
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We ain’t monkeyin’ around here. Do Chimpanzees Understand Death? Posted by Kambiz Kamrani. Asymp; 1 Comment. Pansy – Illustration by Denise Nestor. Senior writer for Boing Boing. Recently wrote an article in the New York Times. A primate psychologist at the University of Stirling. In Scotland who published the account in the journal Current Biology. 8220; Pan thanatology. His body is defended by Mimi, an unrelated female, the group’s alpha female. You can see her swat away flies and inspect his arm, ...
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It's Scutigera Coleoptrata Season! / Boing Boing
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Apr 15, 2009. It's Scutigera Coleoptrata Season! From the Boing Boing Shop. Maggie Koerth-Baker is a guest blogger on Boing Boing. A freelance science and health journalist, Maggie. Lives in Minneapolis, brain dumps. On Twitter, and writes quite often for mental floss. Spring is in the air. The plants are sprouting. That last pile of snow on the shady part of your neighbor's lawn has successfully melted. And your bathroom is alive with terrifying, multilegged creatures that look like this:. 4 Scutigera C...
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Cobb Lab Research Blog: February 2014
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Friday, February 14, 2014. A scientist's dilemma: to tweet or not to tweet? Below is a loose summary of my comments in the “ Engaging Social Media. 8221; panel at the AAAS meeting. In Chicago, with superstars Maggie Koerth-Baker. And Danielle N. Lee. My slides are here. Thanks to all for the Twitter outpouring of support and new followers! It’s 2010, and I’m sitting in a room with 18 other young scientists as part of the inaugural PopTech Science Fellows. Of course we do. To our great detriment.] It'...
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Meet Science: What is "peer review"? / Boing Boing
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Apr 22, 2011. Meet Science: What is "peer review"? From the Boing Boing Shop. When the science you learned in school and the science you read in the newspaper don't quite match up, the Meet Science series is here to help, providing quick run-downs of oft-referenced concepts, controversies, and tools that aren't always well-explained by the media. According to a peer-reviewed journal article published this week .". How often have you read that phrase? How often have I. What, precisely, do they review?
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The Journal of Michael Merriam
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The Journal of Michael Merriam. Purveyor of Fictions and Truths. Thoughts On A New Year. Feb 3rd, 2015 at 4:35 PM. Here we are in February and this is my first post of the year on my poor neglected blog. I opted to skip the annual year in review post. 2014 was mixed bag. Here we are in February and this is my first post on my poor neglected blog of the year. I opted to skip the annual year in review post. 2014 was mixed bag. So yeah, kind of a downer post for kind of a downer year. Oh, how long it has be...
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Ihnatko – Andy Ihnatko's Celestial Waste of Bandwidth (BETA)
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Andy Ihnatko's Celestial Waste of Bandwidth (BETA). The blog of Andy Ihnatko, internationally-beloved technology pundit. Why I Often Buy Kids-Oriented Comics. Spectacular Spider-Man (UK) #207. Why I Often Buy Superhero Comics From Marvel and DC’s Kids Lines:. They never jettison the fundamentals of good storytelling in the name of style. Even when it’s an ongoing story, each issue is designed to be a satisfying, self-contained unit of entertainment. They’re fun. Comics don’t. Be fun, right? There’s the p...
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Apocalypses: Lemon Dirt Paste Recipe
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Friday, December 14, 2012. Lemon Dirt Paste Recipe. 1 block cream cheese. 1 shot of lemoncello (or more to taste). Yellow food coloring (optional). Grind up the Oreos in a food processor. Cream in the cream cheese until thoroughly mixed. Add in the lemoncello and mix well. You can roll them into balls now, but it would be quite messy. I put the mixture in the fridge overnight so it was less goopy to deal with. Keep refrigerated until time to serve. (mostly just to keep them from getting all melty). Note:...
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Apocalypses: Once More With Feeling
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Thursday, December 20, 2012. Once More With Feeling. Posted by Lou Smith. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Youve Met A Terrible Fate. Once More With Feeling. Lemon Dirt Paste Recipe. Two Videos Before The End. Apocalyptic writing from the NY Times. Cult Director Scooter McCrae Talks Movies and Inspiration [Interview]. Having recently returned from the Transylvania IFF, where his new short film Saint Frankenstein picked up the Best Film Award in the Shadows Shorts Competi. Trends fueling move to EVs.
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Apocalypses: July 2012
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Sunday, July 15, 2012. Choose your own adventure. Posted by Kelly Coyle. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Choose your own adventure. Cult Director Scooter McCrae Talks Movies and Inspiration [Interview]. Having recently returned from the Transylvania IFF, where his new short film Saint Frankenstein picked up the Best Film Award in the Shadows Shorts Competi. Own a legit British sign for "Battle Station". If Stanley Kubrick Directed Rogue One, the Posters Might Look Like This. The Yale Forum on Climate Change.
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Seduced by Food: Obesity and the Human Brain / Boing Boing
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Stephan J. Guyenet. Mar 9, 2012. Seduced by Food: Obesity and the Human Brain. From the Boing Boing Shop. CC BY 2.0. In 1960-1962, the US government collected height and weight measurements from thousands of US citizens. Using these numbers, they estimated that the prevalence of obesity among US adults at the time was 13 percent. Fast forward to the year 2007-2008, and in the same demographic group, the prevalence of obesity was 34 percent ( 1. The Human Brain and Obesity. Leptin and a few other hormones...
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