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Sunday, May 4, 2014

Mixed Bag Science Bews

If you've ever been nervous or stressed, you might have experienced a weird feeling in your stomach. Why do we feel so many emotions in our guts? Laci did some digging to figure out what connects our brains to our midsections.
A study indicates that we may be maxing out on men's facial hair.
A new drug that can be administered orally could contain outbreaks.
Climate change and past forest management methods may be to blame for bigger and more frequent flames.
New research into the height of a very remote Andean plateau reveals just the latest surprise from the Earth's second-greatest mountain belt.
The 217.78 gram (7.68 oz.) nugget is a single, intact gold crystal.
A new method extracts high-tech metals from common seafloor ores.
The tweets of Puerto Rico's unofficial mascot, the common coqui frog, became higher pitched during the past two decades, while the animals grew shorter.

Ancient Puppy Paw Prints Found on Roman Tiles
Paw prints and hoof prints of a few meddlesome animals have been preserved for posterity on ancient Roman tiles.
Would you like to discover a new animal? Here are 10 ways animal experts currently search for and document new species.
Could a sunset on Kepler-186f look like this?
It's a big, big universe out there and the Hubble Space Telescope bores a hole over halfway out into it with this image, showing a gathering of galaxies near and far.

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Sunlight generates hydrogen in new porous silicon
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Appearance of Night-Shining Clouds Has Increased
First spotted in 1885, silvery blue clouds sometimes hover in […]

Coming Tomorrow

Coming Tomorrow
  • The Austin Police Chief Is Angry That People Are Angry About Police Misbehavior
  • WIPO Sends Criminal Prosecution Threats Over Publication Of Internal Documents About Its Director General's Corruption
  • The FBI Used No-Fly List To Bully muslims, Into Becoming Informers
  • Thirty Percent Of Americans Admit To Cheating
And more ...
This display of harmony is our Animal Picture, for today.

Saturday, May 3, 2014

The Daily Drift

Wild hats are required for the Derby ...!
 
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And we're off to the races ... !
Today is - Kentucky Derby Day


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Today in History

495 Pope Gelasius asserts that his authority is superior to Emperor Enanstasius.
1568 French forces in Florida slaughter hundreds of Spanish.
1855 Macon B. Allen becomes the first African American to be admitted to the Bar in Massachusetts.
1859 France declares war on Austria.
1863 The Battle of Chancellorsville rages for a second day.
1865 President Lincoln's funeral train arrives in Springfield, Illinois.
1926 U.S. Marines land in Nicaragua.
1952 The first airplane lands at the geographic North Pole.
1968 After three days of battle, the U.S. Marines retake Dai Do complex in Vietnam, only to find the North Vietnamese have evacuated the area.
1971 James Earl Ray, Martin Luther King's assassin, is caught in a jail break attempt.
1979 Margaret Thatcher becomes the first woman prime minister of Great Britain.
1982 A British submarine sinks Argentina's only cruiser during the Falkland Islands War.