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Beyond the Mainland | Primate Prose

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A sciencey blog for the curious ape. January 5, 2013 in fun. It’s been almost a year since I last posted. Oh, how time has escaped me. I’ll be updating this blog more often now. Could I make it up to you if I showed beautiful photos of Oahu and Kauai? Well then… we’ve struck a deal. Perhaps the most intriguing and resplendent tree specimen in Oahu. A coastline cemented in my memory. Hanalei Bay, settling into the afternoon. Waimea Canyon in Kauai, drenched in dryness and mist. The Na Pali coast. That&#82...

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+/- Science: Five Interesting Things I Heard About: Nuclear Energy

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On the awesomeness of science in the natural world. Five Interesting Things I Heard About: Nuclear Energy. I’m back with another installment in my new series, “Five Interesting Things I Heard About: [blank].” In the first installment. I relayed five interesting comments that University of Wisconsin – Madison. Mechanical engineering professor Sandy Klein made about solar energy. Klein, also the director of the Solar Energy Lab. Image of U.S. government in public domain). 1 “There is no [nuclear] rea...

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+/- Science: December 2011

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On the awesomeness of science in the natural world. Five Interesting Things I Heard About: Nuclear Energy. I’m back with another installment in my new series, “Five Interesting Things I Heard About: [blank].” In the first installment. I relayed five interesting comments that University of Wisconsin – Madison. Mechanical engineering professor Sandy Klein made about solar energy. Klein, also the director of the Solar Energy Lab. Image of U.S. government in public domain). Links to this post. When you can&#...

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+/- Science: Antarctic Great Lake Glimpsed

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On the awesomeness of science in the natural world. Antarctic Great Lake Glimpsed. UPDATE (16 February 2012, 12:55 pm):. A few follow-up pieces have been posted in the past couple days (see here. Nature News has another story. With a great accompanying graphic that depicts the drilling operation in better scale; and a nod to Knight Sci Journalism Tracker. A team of Russian scientists has managed at long last to finish drilling through 3,769 meters of ice. Below the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. Located at th...

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+/- Science: March 2011

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On the awesomeness of science in the natural world. Shake, rattle, and roll.to scale. 160; Downtown Seattle as seen from West Seattle across Elliott Bay. The timing of my trip during the week after Japan’s subduction-related magnitude 9.0. And the resulting tsunami. And not long after a shallow crustal temblor hit Christchurch, NZ. Of the Puget Sound to both of these types of earthquakes, as well as to large deep earthquakes such as the 2001 Nisqually. Quake, and the parallels. On many in the region.

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+/- Science: April 2011

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On the awesomeness of science in the natural world. In this age of the ever-expanding scope and complexity of cutting-edge science, researchers are increasingly using any and all resources at their disposal to expand their capacity for data collection and analysis.  This may mean borrowing time on massive, multi-user super-computers. About the updated winter wolf count in Wisconsin, which relies in part on observations from knowledgeable amateurs) to surveys of interstellar gravitational waves. Like othe...

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The Stabil: April 2011

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A science writer's search to find the right words. Wednesday, April 27, 2011. The Root of all Juice. We're going to play a game. It's called, find the power source. Ready go:. Okay, maybe that one was little much, try this:. The answer we're looking for here is the 3V Battery. So what does this have to do with anything? The electronics schematic symbol for a cell. An integrated circuit-not a 21st century centipede. Objects like these are in charge of doing one thing, altering the electrical signal that p...

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Raising Interest in Science | Evolutions of Science

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From Gravity to Genes: How Science Explains and Shapes Our Lives. VHS – Hemorrhagic Fish in the Great Lakes. Raising Interest in Science. December 16, 2011. An article was published last month on artofthestem.com that was titled “Five Reasons Why Your Child Won’t Be a Scientist.”. So why don’t students like science? What makes them turn away from science and other STEM topics? And why do some of us actually enjoy learning about science? So what if kids don’t have an in-house scientist? 3 Science has lost...

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VHS – Hemorrhagic Fish in the Great Lakes | Evolutions of Science

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From Gravity to Genes: How Science Explains and Shapes Our Lives. How Fireflies Help Us Understand Cancer. Raising Interest in Science →. VHS – Hemorrhagic Fish in the Great Lakes. November 4, 2011. VHS is not a human pathogen and dies quickly at human body temperature. However, the virus can cause large fish kills and change the dynamics of fisheries. In Denmark, the disease caused deaths in rainbow trout farms leading to losses near $60 million US dollars annually in the early 1990s. Or other DNR sites.

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Eating Insects – A Sustainable Food Plan? | Evolutions of Science

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From Gravity to Genes: How Science Explains and Shapes Our Lives. Revisiting a Science Hoax. Fireflies and Science – An Enlightening Combination →. Eating Insects – A Sustainable Food Plan? June 15, 2011. During a recent marathon of Andrew Zimmern’s “Bizarre Foods” episodes, I found myself intrigued by his oft-repeated claim that insects could be our answer to a world-wide food shortage and the expensive practice of raising livestock. Zimmern and an insect feast. Insects are a different story, though.