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Science Now has an interesting story about the genetic evidence that the FBI used to implicate Bruce Ivens in the anthrax attacks. -
what's wrong with this picture?
A site called Magazine Art has pictures of covers from a magazine called Electrical Experimenter here (the more interesting pictures start on page 2). Fascinating views of what the future looked like in the 1920s. Also fodder for the intermittent Call of Cthulhu game that I run.
But I take issue with this picture...
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article up
An article that I wrote for NASA's astrobiology portal is now up, about a researcher working with ice taken from just above Antarctica's Lake Vostok. Lake Vostok is buried beneath two miles of ice, but remains liquid probably due to hydrothermal vents. The ice accreted to the surface of the lake, where it was retrieved by an expedition in the late ( Read more... ) -
My pithy freelance post
A lot of folks on my friends list have been talking about freelancing, so here's my $.02, adopted from a post that I made in resposnse to ellameena in her journal ( Read more... ) -
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Yesterday, mareklamo and I brought lilaboux and ahltis to the vet for a checkup. The vet commented on how healthy lilaboux is for an 18-year old cat, and then asked if we would be willing to enroll her in a clinical trial for a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (Robenacoxib), sponsored by Novartis Animal Health. They took some blood samples and X-rays to determine if ( Read more... )
