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Unread postby td11 » Thu Aug 15, 2013 11:26:23

i also like that it is carnivorous and eats mainly fruit
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Unread postby Bucky » Fri Aug 16, 2013 07:36:52

it will be revealed to be a dog once it barks at visitors

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Unread postby The Crimson Cyclone » Fri Aug 16, 2013 07:49:35

The little zoo critter, named Ringerl, was mistaken for a sister species, the olingo. Before she died in 1976, Ringerl was shipped from zoo to zoo in Louisville, Ky., Tucson, Ariz., Salt Lake City, Washington and New York City to try to get it to breed with other olingos.

She wouldn't.

"It turns out she wasn't fussy," Helgen said. "She wasn't the right species."



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Unread postby td11 » Fri Nov 22, 2013 15:09:00

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http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com ... s-animals/
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Re: Rolling Science and Nature Thread

Unread postby Phan In Phlorida » Fri Nov 22, 2013 16:19:26

looks like it's farting fiber-optics
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Unread postby WheelsFellOff » Fri Nov 22, 2013 16:20:50

Cat in the Hat's fleas.
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Unread postby phatj » Fri Nov 22, 2013 21:24:12

Phan In Phlorida wrote:looks like it's farting fiber-optics

Oh great, something else in the rainforest to exploit
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Unread postby Monkeyboy » Sat Nov 30, 2013 14:30:37

That reminds me of this video I show my class as an example of specialization for predation.

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Unread postby The Crimson Cyclone » Thu Dec 12, 2013 14:34:25

apparently the universe is just a hologram

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/1 ... 28359.html
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Re: Rolling Science and Nature Thread

Unread postby td11 » Fri Dec 13, 2013 10:05:05

Scientists discover second, secret DNA code
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Re: Rolling Science and Nature Thread

Unread postby WheelsFellOff » Fri Dec 13, 2013 10:11:21


This. Changes. Everything.


Time to start planning their Nobel acceptance speeches.
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Unread postby Phan In Phlorida » Fri Dec 13, 2013 12:35:49

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Unread postby Houshphandzadeh » Fri Dec 13, 2013 12:47:38

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Re: Rolling Science and Nature Thread

Unread postby Monkeyboy » Fri Dec 13, 2013 18:04:42

WheelsFellOff wrote:

This. Changes. Everything.


Time to start planning their Nobel acceptance speeches.



Does it? Aren't they just talking about epigenetics? Unless I'm misunderstanding something, which is possible given the short length of the article, this just seems like a rehash of what is already known. There's a famous study about a Swedish town where they were able to see that people developed diabetes at a higher rate if their grandparents experienced an abundance of food in preadolescence, showing that experiences can be passed on through the genome (OMG, Jung was right about the collective unconscious).

I'll need to look at this more closely, but that's my first take. Anyway, it's still cool stuff.
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Re: Rolling Science and Nature Thread

Unread postby td11 » Fri Dec 13, 2013 18:53:23

i agree that the article is short and kinda vague but my take was they are saying codons actually code for more than just amino acid ID and order (and thus the structure of proteins). some of the codons are apparently somewhat directly linked to gene expression control.
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Re: Rolling Science and Nature Thread

Unread postby WheelsFellOff » Fri Dec 13, 2013 19:01:54

I read an abstract of the findings, I'll post it if I can find it again.

Edit: Found it

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Re: Rolling Science and Nature Thread

Unread postby TheAAGuy » Tue Dec 17, 2013 14:57:45

Antarctica may have a new type of ice - diamonds

OSLO, Dec 17 (Reuters) - A kind of rock that often contains diamonds has been found in Antarctica for the first time, hinting at mineral riches in the vast, icy continent -- where mining is banned.

No diamonds were found, but researchers said they were confident the gems were there.

"It would be very surprising if there weren't diamonds in these kimberlites," Greg Yaxley of the Australian National University in Canberra, who led the research, said in a telephone interview.


That does not mean Antarctica will soon see its own diamond rush. Antarctica is not only forbiddingly cold and remote but also protected by a treaty that preserves the continent for scientific research and wildlife, from penguins to seals. The 1991 environmental accord banned mining for at least 50 years.
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Re: Rolling Science and Nature Thread

Unread postby TenuredVulture » Tue Dec 17, 2013 17:46:50

TheAAGuy wrote:Antarctica may have a new type of ice - diamonds

OSLO, Dec 17 (Reuters) - A kind of rock that often contains diamonds has been found in Antarctica for the first time, hinting at mineral riches in the vast, icy continent -- where mining is banned.

No diamonds were found, but researchers said they were confident the gems were there.

"It would be very surprising if there weren't diamonds in these kimberlites," Greg Yaxley of the Australian National University in Canberra, who led the research, said in a telephone interview.


That does not mean Antarctica will soon see its own diamond rush. Antarctica is not only forbiddingly cold and remote but also protected by a treaty that preserves the continent for scientific research and wildlife, from penguins to seals. The 1991 environmental accord banned mining for at least 50 years.


So, in 28 years, it'll be open season! But really--mining diamonds profitably isn't as easy as it sounds. As you may be aware, there's a diamond mine in Arkansas, which thanks to it never being profitable was basically handed over to the state and and is now a state park, where you can go and dig for diamonds, and if you find one you can keep it. About two or three times a year, someone finds a pretty valuable one. Took Lil' Vulture there once, and her mining career lasted about 2 minutes. There's also a pretty cool pool, and that was much more interesting to her than digging in an open field in the hot Arkansas sun.
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