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Cat Found

2008-03-30T08:09:00.003-05:00

CatFound Originally uploaded by hedwig_the_owl From a field guide to mammals.But there are no marsupials in the Bible!

Cute

2008-03-30T07:00:00.001-05:00

Via Uncertain Principles at ScienceBlogs, cracked.com: The 6 Cutest Animals That Can Still Destroy You.If animals could talk, they would spend most of their time calling us dicks and telling us to get off their land. The traits we think of as "cute" are often simply tricks animals have developed to get tourists to throw them food.Oh shit! Run!That is not in fact a man and a hippo doing a live

Earth Hour

2008-03-29T08:35:00.005-05:00

Earth Hour March 28Linky. The World Wildlife Fund is inviting people throughout the world to call attention to climate change by turning off their lights for one hour at 8:00 PM local time.It started with the Syndey Opera House. Later the Coca Cola sign in Times Square, Niagra Falls, the Golden Gate Bridge, and thousands of McDonald's Golden Arches will all go dark.

Boys kissing

2008-03-27T06:56:00.002-05:00

Dirty John Bonny and Alec, 1974.Boys kissing at Dirty John Bonny.

Barbary lions

2008-03-27T06:31:00.000-05:00

Lion skulls from the Tower of LondonTwo lion skulls found during excavations at the Tower of London originated in north-west Africa, genetic research suggests.The big cats, which were kept by royals during medieval times, have the same genetic make-up as the north African Barbary lion, a DNA study shows....The two well-preserved lion skulls were recovered during excavations of the moat at the

Happy Spring

2008-03-20T07:18:00.003-05:00

Today is the day of the Vernal Equinox, the day when the sun is positioned directly above the earth's equator, and, depending on how you measure it, the day and night are (nearly) the same length throughout the world.And it's the first day Spring.In the spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love- Alfred, Lord Tennyson Locksley Hall.In spring a young man's fancy turns to a fancy

Picture

2008-03-15T07:20:00.001-05:00

LionGurumustuk SinghMore lions at Dirty John Bonny

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2008-03-14T13:49:00.000-05:00

Today is Pi Day which celebrates the constant π, which is very roughly 3.14, similar to the American date format 3/14.Pi Day founder Larry Shaw of the San Francisco Exploratorium.With pies.And it's also Albert Einstein's Birthday!

Pygmy Hippo

2008-03-10T10:39:00.004-05:00

hedwig_the_owl href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/grrlscientist/2323598978/">PygmyHippoVia GrrlScientist at Living the Scientific Life at ScienceBlogs, and the Daily Telegragh (UK).The pygmy hippopotamus, Hexaprotodon liberensis, was feared to be extinct until recently. At best, is remains very threatened by poaching and deforestation.Almost never seen in the wild, this smaller cousin of the

2008-03-08T10:43:00.003-06:00

Illinois' fourteenth congressional district is vacant since Dennis Hastert resigned. You know Hastert, the about-to-explode lips, portrayed by John Goodman on The West Wing, the very image of a Fat Cat.So today is a special election where Dirty John got to support Democrat Bill Foster - a real scientist! Foster was a physicist at Fermilab for years, and later a businessman.And the Democrat

Chutzpah

2008-03-06T07:56:00.002-06:00

Via PZ Myers at Pharyngula and others.Four hundred years after it put Galileo on trial for heresy the Vatican is to complete its rehabilitation of the great scientist by erecting a statue of him inside the Vatican walls.- The London TimesAnd they plan to put it near the rooms where Galileo was imprisoned while he awaited his heresey trial for claiming that earth recolves around the sun. The

Silence

2008-03-06T07:44:00.000-06:00

Silence gets an earful, and Illinois lurches back towards libertyIn the fall of 2007 the Illinois legislature passed, over the Governor's veto, the Silent Reflection and Student Prayer Act. This was purported to provide an opportunity for captive children to engage in "silent prayer or for silent reflection on the anticipated activities of the day."It was not (wink, wink), I say not, a tranparent

Boys kissing

2008-03-03T07:22:00.002-06:00

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