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Languages Racing to Extinction 10/17/07: This really depresses me. Especially when America is so xenophobic at the moment. I am however somewhat fascinated by the ...
Bird of Life, Bird of Death: A Naturalist’… 10/15/07: From the NYTimes Review: In his introduction, Mr. Maslow suggests the book is "a kind of essay in political ornithology." ...
The Best American Science Writing 2005 10/15/07: Great collection of essays. I'm not sure why but I've been in a non-fiction mood lately.
How Does It Feel to Die? 10/15/07: Here's a special treat for all of you out there that suffer from anxiety attacks, from the New Scientist: Is ...
Museum Gottwaldianum 09/23/07: Another Bibliodyssey post. That guy/girl has some amazing stuff, I need to figure out where they find it all. Anyway, ...
The Strange Story of Napoleon’s Wallpaper 09/20/07: Napoleon, as we all know, died on the remote island of St Helena. A sample of his hair analyzed in ...
Head-mounted Device is the Cat’s Whiskers 09/20/07: Get your spidy sense in realtime. A pretty remarkable project of the Japan that gives you 360 degree sensory awareness: ...
Out-Of-Body Experience Recreated 09/18/07: Scientists are now able to trigger an out-of-body experience (without subjecting volunteers to near-death): Two teams used virtual reality goggles ...
Elective Affinities 09/09/07: Though his most famous work is of course Faust, Goethe wrote plenty of other excellent books. Apparently he was obsessed ...
Ancient Forest Found in Hungary 08/14/07: From the BBC: "An ancient forest of cypress trees, estimated to be eight million years old, has been discovered in ...
10 of the Best Natural Phenomena 08/03/07: Very cool list with a number of things I was not familiar with including something called gravity waves, which are ...
MIT Finds Cure for Fear 08/03/07: This does not seem like a good thing to me, I've yet to hear a ethicist weight in on this, ...
Veil Nebula Pierced by Hubble’s Gaze 08/03/07: Stunning images from the Hubble telescope of the Veil Nebula. From Space.com: "Only 5,000 to 10,000 years ago, a star ...
Giant Penguins Once Roamed Peru Desert 07/27/07: From National Geographic News: "Penguins about the size of humans roamed South America some 35 million years ago, and they ...
Greenskeeping 07/27/07: This makes logical sense (plants need carbon dioxide, which you exhale), but I've never tried it myself (from Dorie Greenspan): ...
Forgetting May Be Part of the Process of R… 06/18/07: Whether drawing a mental blank on a new A.T.M. password, a favorite recipe or an old boyfriend, people have ample ...
High Resolution Imaging Of Mars 06/18/07: High quality images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have been posted to the web on the site HiRISE for public ...
Coelacanth Hooked in Indonesia 06/01/07: Coelacanth for dinner. A fisherman in Indonesia reeled in the bizzare coelacanth which scientists believed was exinct until one turned ...
Internet Library of Early Journals 06/01/07: Well it's got the web design quality of a 1998 site, but the Internet Library of Early Journals, ILEJ, is ...
Drifting Rubber Duckies Chart Oceans Of Pl… 05/30/07: Awesome. I really want to take some time off and go look for these things. Theirs is an epic tale ...