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| 7 hours ago | The Motion In The Ocean: How Waves Are Formed (Graphic) | | There's motion in the ocean, but where does it coming from? Waves are a beloved part of nature, but few know how they're actually formed. Some are big some are small, some are short, some are tall. So, if you've been wondering how the waves at your local beach are formed, look no further |
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| 7 hours ago | Painted Hills, Oregon Sunrise | | Sunrise on the Painted Hills at John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, Painted Hills, Oregon. I had to travel three hours on very rural winding country roads in the dark, with steep drop-offs to get there for this opening shot of the day!
(This photo and caption were submitted to My Shot.)
Oregon - United States - Rural area - John Day Fossil Beds National Monument - Shopping |
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| Yesterday | Human-Like Brain Found in Worm | | For the first time, a structure comparable to our cerebral cortex has been found in an invertebrate -- a humble marine ragworm. |
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| Yesterday | When Bike Sharing Falters (and Why We Can't Let It) | | Photo credit by batega via flickr.
In its early days, Barcelona's Bicing seemed like an unparalleled success. With 400 stations and 3,000 of the squat, burly red-and-white bikes stationed around the city, Bicing quickly became part of Barcelona's big city atmosphere and was enthusiastically received by inhabitants.
But after five years, something scary started to happen, in addition to the vandalism and abandonment that plagued Bicing and other big programs...ridership started to decline.... Read the full story on TreeHugger |
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| Yesterday | Simple Household Stink Pranks! | | How to make 3 terrifying stink pranks. In this episode of Scientific Tuesdays we will take some common household items and turrn them into the ultimate weapon of olfactory doom... |
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| Yesterday | Curious Whales Check Out Photographers with Stunning Results | | Reaching sizes of up to 80 feet long and 150 tons, whales are some of the oceans' most varied and majestic creatures -- and they're also some of its most endangered: Of the 11 species of great whales, at least nine have been severely impacted by years of whaling, according to Sea World.
But while whales can be aggressive at times, they are more often gentle, curious creatures -- and likely to check out foreign objects in the water, including boats and photographers.
Right Whale This massive right whale came up to wildlife photographer Brian Skerry with "great curiosity, but no aggression," he told The Daily Mail, when he was working underwater off the Auckland Islands.
Fully-grown right whales are around 55 feet long and weigh nearly 70 tons, and are usually black with patches of rough skin known as callosities on their head.
Though endangered right whales live all over the world, scientists believe there are no more than 350 of them left in the North Atlantic, 100 in the North Pacific, and a few thousand in the Southern Hemisphere.
Photo via The Daily Mail
... Read the full story on TreeHugger |
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| Yesterday | Hawking: God Not Needed for Universe to be Created | | Physicist Stephen Hawking has written a new book called The Grand Design. In it Hawking says that the universe’s beginnings – or the "Big Bang" was an inevitable consequence of the laws of physics and that God wasn’t needed to “light the blue touch paper and set the universe going." |
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| Yesterday | New Research Challenges Marijuana Gateway Theory | | The widespread belief that marijuana users will eventually and inevitably move on to harder drugs has yet more evidence against it with the release of a new study. Whether teenagers who smoked pot will use other illegal drugs as young adults has a lot more to do with factors such as employment status and stress, according to the new research. |
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| Yesterday | Historic NASA Photos [PICS From the Archive] | | NASA has partnered with The Commons on Flickr and the Internet Archive to make a collection of 180 historic photos available for public viewing. The photos are arranged into three sections – Building NASA, Launch/Takeoff and NASA Center Namesakes. We’ve compiled some of the photos below but head on over to the NASA Flickr stream for the whole collection. The photos are also available, along with thousands more, on the NASA Images website. |
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| Yesterday | 25 Pictures of Rockets Being Launched | | The title is a little deceptive in that there are certainly other weapons being fired in some of these images. Nonetheless, I found these images stunning, and |
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| Yesterday | House Built From Hemp Is Full Of Green Surprises | | All images from Push House
In much of the world, hemp is thought of as a useful building material; Warren recently showed us an interesting house from Australia and it is common in the UK. But in America, it is still the butt of hippie jokes; Matt Hickman of the Mother Nature Networks describes a new house in Asheville, North Carolina with references to Tommy Chong and describes the interior: "there's not a blacklight poster, hanging spider plant, or crumpled up Cheetos bag in sight." Discovery News says "Put aside old visions of burlap-like shirts that belong with hacky sacks." Even the owner tells CNN ""We heard that we could have a really great neighborhood party if it ever caught on fire."
It's a shame that everyone is focusing on that, because it is just one interesting product in a fascinating house that is full of surprises.... Read the full story on TreeHugger |
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| Aug 29, 2010 | The Stem-Cell Ruling: Scientists Alarmed at 'Step Backward\ | | A year and a half after President Obama loosened restrictions on government funding of human-embryonic-stem-cell research, a federal judge declared all such studies temporarily off-limits for taxpayer dollars, on the grounds that they violate a 1996 law. \r\n |
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| Aug 29, 2010 | Galaxy Cluster Abell 1689 Magnifies the Dark Universe [APOD] | | What's the matter with this cluster of galaxies? To find out what forms matter takes in the Abell 1689 cluster requires not only deep images from telescopes like the Hubble Space Telescope, but detailed computer modeling as well. |
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| Aug 29, 2010 | DNA of Chernobyl animals studied | | Two scientists, one American and one French, have been in Chernobyl for more than 10 years studying the populations of insects, birds and mammals in "zone of alienation" surrounding the abandoned nuclear power station |
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