Swans on Tea

Every Dew Drop has Heaven in It
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Evolutionary Acceleration Research Institute Ready to Start “Squirrel Smasher”
Scientists currently rely on computer simulations to smash biological units, but simulations can only do so much, and without the visceral enjoyment of seeing two squirrels collide at thousands of miles an hour.
Malwin said there will be controls in place to prevent new undesirable species from forming. [...]

Txt Crimes, Sex Crimes And Murder: The Science Of Forensic Linguistics
Based on techniques that were first used to measure similarity between marine ecosystems, and then applied to the analysis of sexual crime, Dr Grant has now developed a method to quantify people’s style of text writing. His technique, which assigns a numeric measure of stylistic [...]

Ten things you don’t know about the Earth
Destroying the Earth is hard
[…]
Even giant collisions can’t vaporize the planet. An object roughly the size of Mars impacted the Earth more than 4.5 billion years ago, and the ejected debris formed the Moon (the rest of the collider merged with the Earth). But the Earth wasn’t vaporized. [...]

I won’t use the P-word, because it pops up (as it were) way too much in the search stats.
Love Bugs: Sex in the Insect World
The sex of the Southern Green Stink Bug, however, is almost indistinguishable to the untrained eye.
Oh, but to the trained eye …

Hexium Connect
Spatial relations flash game. Hexagonal pieces; rearrange to make all the colored bars line up.
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From Google Maps to Gold Medal
Kristin Armstrong, who won gold in the Women’s Individual Time Trial in Road Cycling, got a GPS track when she rode the Beijing Olympic course in December of 2007
After returning home to Boise, Idaho, I exported the GPS data to several different formats, one of which I was able to [...]

But it has nothing to do with radiation safety concerns.
Fraud Charges Cast Doubt on Claims of DNA Damage From Cell Phone Fields
The only two peer-reviewed scientific papers showing that electromagnetic fields (EMFs) from cell phones can cause DNA breakage are at the center of a misconduct controversy at the Medical University of Vienna (MUV). Critics [...]

Charlotte can do more than spell. Spider Web Art
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Pangolins is practically chickens.
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Jennifer has started the great pop-sci book project, a natural evolution (and yet intelligently designed progression) of The Big Read
The rules are familiar
1. Highlight those you’ve read in full
2. Asterisk those you intend to read
3. Add any additional popular science books you think belong on the list
4. Link back to me (leave links or suggested [...]

Teaching evolution — and, by the sound of it, doing a good job — in Florida. He realizes that if the science sounds dogmatic he’s lost before he even starts.
A Teacher on the Front Line as Faith and Science Clash
When Florida’s last set of science standards came out in 1996, soon after [...]