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The Meniscus: January 2015
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Reaching beyond the pool of knowledge into the airy expanse of the unknown. Tuesday, January 13, 2015. Happy Accidents: Beneficial Mutations in Humans. A while back, I was talking with a group of young students about evolution and natural selection, and I was teaching them about the role of mutations when I was asked an interesting question that I failed to answer. The concept of mutations can be tough to grasp, because mutation sounds like a really bad thing, and indeed it often is. A mutation.
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The Meniscus: Watch the World Change
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Reaching beyond the pool of knowledge into the airy expanse of the unknown. Tuesday, April 29, 2014. Watch the World Change. A slightly belated Happy Earth Day to everyone! Habitat loss is one of the greatest dangers to natural ecosystems, and deforestation. Let’s take a look at just a few of their images. This is North America, showing areas where forest was gained from 2000-2012 (in blue),. And areas where forest was lost (in red). Some areas have been experiencing both gain. Despite the extensive poli...
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The Meniscus: March 2012
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Reaching beyond the pool of knowledge into the airy expanse of the unknown. Saturday, March 31, 2012. Like Reality, But Better. While browsing the technology news recently, I kept coming across the term “Augmented Reality (AR).” Not being familiar with augmented reality, but being always curious, I decided to investigate exactly what it is. As it turns out, it’s awesome, so I’m gonna blog about it. I’m sure you’ve heard of virtual reality. View my complete profile. Like Reality, But Better.
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The Meniscus: Dawn Comes to Ceres
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Reaching beyond the pool of knowledge into the airy expanse of the unknown. Monday, March 2, 2015. Dawn Comes to Ceres. This Friday is going to be an exciting day in space exploration! I just got finished watching NASA’s JPL briefing on the status of the Dawn spacecraft mission, and I loved it! And as Bill Nye says: “When you’re in love, you want to tell the world! This image shows an artistic rendition of the Dawn spacecraft. With Vesta to the left and Ceres to the right. Well, it’s largely the do...
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The Meniscus: August 2011
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Reaching beyond the pool of knowledge into the airy expanse of the unknown. Saturday, August 13, 2011. A Life of Ease in our Invisible Submarine. Wouldn’t it be neat if you could roam around wherever you wanted without anyone knowing you were there? When an object – a boat or an animal, for instance – moves through the water, the water around it gets pushed around in all directions and flows all around the object disturbing it. This turbulence creates a wake. View my complete profile.
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Mesozoic Musings at Jurassic Forest: November 2013
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Mesozoic Musings at Jurassic Forest. Your stop for Mesozoic creatures, and more. Sunday, 24 November 2013. Two new theropods in November! November's not quite done yet, and we've seen two important new theropod dinosaurs named this month alone. Both of these are scientifically significant, and both come from Utah, but they lived at different times and are from different groups. Here, I will briefly introduce you to these two new dinosaurs, Lythronax. First up is Siats meekororum. From the Late Cretaceous.
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Lunaria - handmade jewellery: Mixed media pendant and locket in progress
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Friday, 12 June 2015. Mixed media pendant and locket in progress. Remember I wrote some time ago about making a locket? Well, I'm making a third attempt right now, and that one looks like it may actually get finished :) The first attempt became rubbish pretty quickly, the second. wasn't looking that bad until. So, here it is:. Still a lot to do, but I like it. As for the mixed media pendant. I was reading something, someone mentioned mixed media jewellery, someone else was complaining how they've got...
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Lunaria - handmade jewellery: April 2015
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Thursday, 23 April 2015. Torches, charcoal blocks, soldering boards, lockets in progress and a whole heaps of plans. Right I've been absent from the blog for over a month, I didn't show promised cuff pictures. bad blog owner! Here, have a picture (with my little iroda for comparison):. By the way, my table is not that messy when I'm actually soldering something. It runs, as you can see, on butane/propane mix, and reaches 1750. And the beginning of a locket on my new charcoal block (I haven't used it yet,...
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A fragment of Gondwana: A spiracular new look at the breath of early tetrapods
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Bits and pieces of natural history from Central Australia and anywhere else of interest. Tuesday, January 28, 2014. A spiracular new look at the breath of early tetrapods. Yes its a terrible title but its the best I could manage. What's it all about? Well some may not know but an interesting paper was published in Nature Communications. Last week. It concerns the function of spiracles in bichirs. What's a spiracle? Or for that matter what is a bichir? Skull and partial skeleton of. A more 'tetrapody' mem...
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