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More on the Pleistocene Park
Article in International Business Times about the project I mentioned in my last post. Got this for supporting it (ok, ten bucks worth, but what the heck - I like the idea whether it happens or not, goodness knows...) If you do want to support it, there's only 10 days to go...
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OK, maybe there...
Awhile back I recall musing on how the biggest problem of recreating the Mammoth could be where to put it. This would probably be it, a project which has been going on in Siberia for many years has recently released a kickstarter (Pleistocene Park) to help fund the recreation of an environment more conducive to keeping the permafrost permafrozen ( Read more... ) -
Supernova!!
Today's Hubble Release, a 30th Anniversary image of Supernova 1987A. Which you may recall took place in the Magellanic Cloud which is really about as close as i care to be to a supernova... :)
Here is what years of expanding supernova cloud looks like...
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OK, hadn't thought of that one...
It started when I looked up DNA base pairs since for some reason one of the names had slipped my memory (for the record, Adenine - Thymine, Cytosine - Guanine [or Uracil with some RNA]) and found this Wikipedia article. Now look down the page to "Unnatural Base Pair" to see what got my attention... Yeppers, if you work at it you can find other ( Read more... ) -
Heads Up!
Darryl Hughes and Monique MacNaughton have an Indiegogo campaign up for producing the last two books in the Chevalier the Queen's Mousketeer series (yeppers, two more!) Especially if you aren't familiar with this series of children's stories, go look at the site which has a lot of examples, reviews and whatnot. This is the same series the on- ( Read more... ) -
Filk (not mine for a change)
Apparently Marcus has asked this to be shared around, so I suspect that includes posting it in here ( Read more... ) -
New Bug Order...
Now that looks interesting....
Ancient, scary and alien-looking specimen forms a rarity in the insect world-a new order
January 25, 2017 by David Stauth
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What a way to disseminate!!
Spotted this on NPR. Apparently there is a yearly student painting competition, the winners of which get hung in the Capitol in DC for about a year until the next set of winners. One such, "Untitled#1" by David Pulphus went up last June, and apparently a group of Republicans have decided it was "offensive" and have been alternating taking it down ( Read more... ) -
Sing
Went and saw "Sing" today - sorta Zootopia goes to the Theatre. Plot's familiar enough (Theater manager and general impressario fallen on hard times gambles on a singing contest to save the theater.) but as always the proof is in the details and particularly in the characters. Not to mention some really great music throughout from a variety of ( Read more... ) -
Crossposting
This is a test post from Dreamwidth, to see if it turns up on LJ.