This spectacular video by Sophie Windsor Clive features starlings gathering in interesting patterns. Murmuration from Sophie Windsor Clive on Vimeo. A chance encounter and shared moment with one of natures greatest and most fleeting phenomena.
Given the local record pollen count level, I found this one interesting.
These companies use mitochondrial DNA to trace one’s genetic lineage. So, they take a sample from my mitochondria (which I got from my mom) and compare it to samples that have been taken from mitochondria samples found in their database to match it. Well, my mom’s mom has lots of English and Scottish ancestry. So…
First there was the conversation about how to get a baby squirrel to pee. (UPDATE: The squirrel now pees at inappropriate times. So he’s been named Lindsey in honor.) Then, it turned to even more strange topics, like zoo manure! ZooDoo – Product Information: Hoof stock (giraffe, zebra, elephant, bison, antelope, llama, rhino, hippo and…
This is making the rounds of tech-centered blogs operated by males…. Careful, lads, that laptop might burn your genes
Updated my movie list. Geek.com Geek News – FDA won’t regulate chips: Seems the FDA thinks that a chip which sits in your body and more or less broadcasts your medical information is not a medical device.
CNN.com – Researchers find 3,600-mile ant supercolony – April 15, 2002 CNN.com – Net blamed for marital breakups – April 15, 2002
It has begun… human cloning… ugh…
Who knows how all of the possibilities for the extinction of human kind? We have the biologicals such as viruses and bacteria. We have seen near misses by comets and astroids certainly large enough to wipe us out. Patterns of evolution indicate there are large spurts of evolutionary change periodically as species after species is wiped…