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redroanchroniclesToday in Amazing And Incredible Science News!
Secret Antarctic Jellyfish Base Discovered At Last. From there they will inevitably launch their bid for world domination. Sure, the news story is actually about the discovery of shrimp-but-not-actually-shrimp and jellyfish in an area 600 feet beneath an ice sheet where scientists expected to find nothing more advanced than microbes. (Their next unexpected discovery will no doubt involved the Spanish Inquisition.) Interesting how the media always downplays the sinister signs of jellyfish imperialism. WHAT ARE THEY HIDING?!
In other news from Antarctica, these "blood falls" kind of blew my mind. You realize what happens next, right? Zombies. Zombies and/or ancient alien worms which cause Antarctic scientists to turn on one another in a frenzy of blood and ice picks.
Or that could've just been that episode of The X-Files that one time. Sometimes I get these things confused. Oh and by the way, the delicious iron-y water flowing out of that glacier? Populated by 1.5 million-year-old microbes. Which are probably from another planet. Hell yeah.
Meanwhile, in horrifying news from the farmed wildlife front, I guess I should've seen this one coming. In China, tigers are mass-farmed so that their bones can be used to make expensive wine. WTF, China. The article is in-depth enough to make you want to weep.
Also, Audubon Magazine has a very enlightening article about the ethics of wildlife photographers using captive animals as subjects, and how the lack of disclosure about whether animals photographed are captive or wild. It raises a huge number of points that I wouldn't have even thought of, and ought to be required reading for wildlife lovers and photographers alike. While a photographer was recently in the news for being disqualified from a major wildlife photography competition when it was discovered that his subject was actually a captive wolf, I hadn't realized quite to what extent farmed animals are used in wildlife photography, and the impact that that has on public perception, conservation and the well-being of captive animals.
In other news entirely:
Birds in North America may be adapting to climate change by becoming smaller.
This zebra is now moonlighting as a hippo dentist.
A California sushi chef and his restaurant have been charged for serving whale meat. Insert expletive here.
Did you know that some chickens are born literally half male and half female? Neither did I. It's awesome, though, and now science has all sorts of science-y explanations.
Secret Antarctic Jellyfish Base Discovered At Last. From there they will inevitably launch their bid for world domination. Sure, the news story is actually about the discovery of shrimp-but-not-actually-shrimp and jellyfish in an area 600 feet beneath an ice sheet where scientists expected to find nothing more advanced than microbes. (Their next unexpected discovery will no doubt involved the Spanish Inquisition.) Interesting how the media always downplays the sinister signs of jellyfish imperialism. WHAT ARE THEY HIDING?!
In other news from Antarctica, these "blood falls" kind of blew my mind. You realize what happens next, right? Zombies. Zombies and/or ancient alien worms which cause Antarctic scientists to turn on one another in a frenzy of blood and ice picks.
Or that could've just been that episode of The X-Files that one time. Sometimes I get these things confused. Oh and by the way, the delicious iron-y water flowing out of that glacier? Populated by 1.5 million-year-old microbes. Which are probably from another planet. Hell yeah.
Meanwhile, in horrifying news from the farmed wildlife front, I guess I should've seen this one coming. In China, tigers are mass-farmed so that their bones can be used to make expensive wine. WTF, China. The article is in-depth enough to make you want to weep.
Also, Audubon Magazine has a very enlightening article about the ethics of wildlife photographers using captive animals as subjects, and how the lack of disclosure about whether animals photographed are captive or wild. It raises a huge number of points that I wouldn't have even thought of, and ought to be required reading for wildlife lovers and photographers alike. While a photographer was recently in the news for being disqualified from a major wildlife photography competition when it was discovered that his subject was actually a captive wolf, I hadn't realized quite to what extent farmed animals are used in wildlife photography, and the impact that that has on public perception, conservation and the well-being of captive animals.
In other news entirely:
Birds in North America may be adapting to climate change by becoming smaller.
This zebra is now moonlighting as a hippo dentist.
A California sushi chef and his restaurant have been charged for serving whale meat. Insert expletive here.
Did you know that some chickens are born literally half male and half female? Neither did I. It's awesome, though, and now science has all sorts of science-y explanations.
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Date: 2010-03-15 10:57 pm (UTC)I also note with amusement that he has moved his website over to WordPress. Pretty soon every website on the planet will be run from WP. Forget Google, forget Microsoft. WordPress is the way of the future.
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Date: 2010-03-23 02:22 am (UTC)Also, your man Moose is clearly badass. I love his shots. :)
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Date: 2010-03-23 02:42 am (UTC)I <3 Moose. :-)
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Date: 2010-03-23 05:00 pm (UTC)Or do you have any recommendations on sites or books to help me just learn CSS? It would be terribly handy in my life but every time I try to get into it I just get confused as hell. :(
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Date: 2010-03-17 12:45 am (UTC)